Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFrom the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
76 Reasons To Oppose The Nomination Of Brett Kavanaugh
100 civil rights groups, 25 major enviornmental groups, hundreds of women's groups, Native American tribes, civil libertarians, abolitionists,
animal rights coalitions, peace networks, etc oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
animal rights coalitions, peace networks, etc oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
76 Reasons To Oppose The Nomination Of Warmonger Brett Kavanaugh
202 224 3121 Please ask your 2 senators for a no vote on Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh, new documents reveal, perjured himself in at least 5 areas, by force denied a teen abortion, by force prevented handicapped victims of guardians from refusing medical procedures, convinced Bush to nominate torture brief writing John Roberts, with Alberto Gonzales filled the 5th circuit with pro execution and antiabortion judges, making it the most executing circuit court of all, helped Bush steal the election from Gore & illegally invade Iraq and Afghanistan, violated the privacy of President Clinton, denied slaughterhouse workers as he sided with a brutal Brooklyn slaughterhouse owner, denied worker rights in general, sided consistently with the rich over the poor, received the stolen files of Senator Leahy from a Republican spy, etc etc.
The National Archives officials have said they need til October to process 5 to 7 million pages. The Judiciary Committee has access to only 7%, and the public only to 4%. This censorship has never happened before. Meanwhile Senators Grassley, McConnell, Cornyn, Cruz, Hatch and others continue their scofflaw behavior.
A majority of Americans oppose nominee for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh and his record. He was nominated by Donald Trump for whom less than 1/4 of US eligible voters voted, a man whose campaign was studded with crimes of fraud. Senators Booker, Warren, Feingold and others have said that Trump, under criminal investigation, should not nominate anyone. Why should citizens work to defeat the Kavanaugh nomination?
*
Please if you agree call 202 224 3121, the Senate and make your views known on talk shows, to friends, etc.
*
1 Kavanaugh Perjury In At Least 5 Areas
Kavanaugh perjured himself under oath denying his involvement in torture briefs, the nomination of judges William Pryor who called Roe V Wade an abomination and of Charles Pickering, the receiving of stolen goods, and warrantless wiretapping.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/five-times-brett-kavanaugh-appears-to-have-lied-to-congress-while-under-oath/
The NY Times editorial board has said Kavanaugh can't be trusted.
Kavanaugh has a phenomenal memory until it comes to areas in which he acted criminally or immorally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/.../brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings.html
2 Theft of 2000 Election
Judge Brett Kavanaugh helped G W Bush, Jeb Bush, 5 GOP justices of the Supreme Court etc. steal the election in which the majority of voters voted for Al Gore.
3 Torture
Kavanaugh convinced G W Bush to nominate John Roberts, who wrote briefs advocating torture, to the Supreme Court. He worked to have John Yoo, advocate of torture of detainees, nominated to the judgeship. Kavanaugh perjured himself in regard to his involvement in promoting torture.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/07/email-marked-confidential-gop-shows-kavanaugh-pushed-john-yoo-legal-architect-bush
4 Kavanaugh Is Hostile To International Law Such As Geneva Convention
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/national-security-kavanaOugh-has-history-extreme-deference-president
5 Kavanaugh Promoted The Iraq War
Kavanaugh facilitated G W Bush's illegal immoral wars, as both played as colonizing cowboys of imperialism.
6 Opposes Net Neutrality
Kavanaugh thinks net neutrality violates the 1st amendment.
The truth is the opposite. He is on the side of huge media companies who want to censor and slow down freedom of speech on the internet.Kavanaugh was overruled by other judges on the DC Circuit Court. He is opposed to net neutrality while the majority ruled broadband is a utility not a luxury. Because of Republicans who agree with him, huge media companies are now blocking websites, censoring content, and slowing down websites at will.
7 Kavanaugh Believes Guardians Have The Right To Force Medical Procedures On Clients
He is opposed by many disability groups because of his denial of the rights of the handicapped in several areas.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/disability-rights-groups-come-out-against-kavanaugh-scotus
The Autistic Self Advocacy Netw opposes Kavanaugh In Doe ex rel. Tarlow v. D.C., Judge Kavanaugh ruled against two women who had been forced to have abortions and one woman who was forced to have eye surgery. The D.C. agency over people with developmental disabilities consented to all three procedures without discussing them with the women. Kavanaugh wrote that because the women lacked “capacity” to make their own medical decisions independently, they had no right even to be consulted
Is it inconsistent that Kavanaugh prevented an abortion forcing teen in detention to have child but ruled in favor in another case in which authorities forced abortions on women. In both cases Kavanaugh deferred to authority figures rather than individuals
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2018/08/asan-opposes-supreme-court-nominee-b...
8 Denial Of Right To Abortion
a. While on the circuit court Kavanaugh voted to deny an immigrant teen in detention her right to an abortion. He violated existing law. Garza V Hargan
b. "Some 68,000 women die of unsafe abortion annually. Of the women who survive unsafe abortion, 5 million will suffer long-term health complications." Lisa Haddad MD
Causes of pregnancy and childbirth deaths besides unsafe abortion are postpartum bleeding hypertension, postpartum infections blood clots, placental abruptions etc.
c. Kavanaugh opposes access to morning after pills as a form
of birth control.
d. Kavanaugh worked to have William Pryor nominated. Pryor had called Roe v Wade an abomination.
e. Kavanaugh White House emails indicate he would criminalize abortion.
9. Almost Always Sides With Big Business In Lawsuits
Kavanaugh in 12 years on the Supreme Court has almost always sided with big business.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/30/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-voice-corporations-business-column/821530002/
10. Almost Always Sides With Employers Over Employees
Yet another example of Kavanaugh's slavish ratification of earthly authority is that he has almost always sided with employers ratter than their employees.
a. Kavanaugh said AT&T lawfully prohibited employees from wearing union shirts on the job.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-sides-with-big-business-not-workers-right-1dcb8c63f619/
11. A foe of Mother Earth
Many question that living beings can survive global baking without earth protecting action. 25 major environmental groups oppose his nomination.
In White Stallion Energy Center LLC v EPA. Kavanaugh ruled the EPA must take money into consideration in regulating carbon emissions of power plants which cause lung cancer, acid rain, etc. He has a Trump Scott Pruitt Charles Wheeler Ryan Zinke approach to the environment and was opposed to Obama's environmental protections and to EPA right of regulation.
He wrote that the EPA had no right to limit greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.ecowatch.com/kavanaugh-supreme-court-environment-epa-2585783500.html
12 . Gay Marriage
Senator Cory Booker told Kavanaugh that many married gay couples are worried they will lose their marriage status if he is confirmed.
13. Opposition To Defendants Accused Of Crimes
Kavanaugh has almost always supported wardesn and opposed defendants in criminal cases
14. Tyranny Of Vivivsecting War Invested Harvard And Yale
Kavanaugh if confirmed would make the 9th graduate of either Harvard or Yale. Both are invested in war and both have tortured tens of millions of animals in research labs.
15. Opposed To Govt Involvement In Health Care
Kanaugh in a complicated opinion ruled against Obamacare.
16. Male Interference In Woman's Right To Choose
Brett Kavanaugh would put the cold violating hand of 5 Republican male justices as well as male legislators in states on a woman's body denying her the sovereign right to decide her own life. This is the more serious because millions or tens of millions of women have in the past died of placental abruptions, of bleeding to death, of breech births, of sepsis, of myriad causes of iatrogenic or physician error, of infections when forced to seek a nonlegal abortionist.
17. Senator Ted Kennedy's Opposition
Senator Edward M Kennedy about Brett Kavanaugh: "(He is) the youngest, least experienced and most partisan candidate in years", Kavanaugh's nomination was stalled for 3 years because of his heinous record in helping steal the people's election from Al Gore as a member of Bush's team, his unconstitutional harassment of Bill Clinton whose impeachment was fueled by those angered that he would not invade Iraq etc.
18. 911 Lies
Ashley Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh's wife was personal secretary to G W Bush in the White House and like Brett Kavanugh was in the White House on Sept 11, 2001. Brett Kavanaugh is part of the coverup of the truth of the World Trade Center explosion . http://911truth.org
19. Federalist Society Antidemocratic
Donald Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh because of the 25 judges on the rightwing Federalist list of Leonard Leo, Kavanaugh is the one who most strongly has written that no one has a right to indict a sitting president. (Perhaps Kavanaugh thinks no one should b able to impeach a president.)
20. Lawsuit Opinions 300 Of Them Re His Slavish Deference to Authorities
21. He Ruled Employers May Deny Employee Access To Birth Control
Kavanaugh has ruled that employers have the right to deny employee access to birth control.
22. Kavanaugh has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protecton Bureau was unconstitutional.
Richard Cordray who ran that bureau and forced banksters and payday lenders to obey the law and return 11.2 billion dollars to 30 million Americans is now running as a Democrat for governor of Ohio.
http://fortune.com/2017/01/27/donald-trump-cfpb-consumer-protection-financial-bureau-elizabeth-warren/
23. Kavanaugh Supports Judicial Murder, Serial Killing Of Prisoners
PBS reported that Judge Kavanaugh if he were to become a justice, would be in favor of the judicial murder known as execution.
Kavanaugh's Judicial Recommendations to Bush
a. Picked Torture Advocate John Roberts For SCOTUS
On the basis of Kavanaugh's advice, Bush picked
John Roberts, judicial serial killer and torture advocate, as his nominee.
b. Because of Kavanaugh's and Alberto Gonzales' judicial recommendations to Bush, the 5th Circuit is the most executing Circuit in the country.
While in the White House counsel office, Brett Kavanaugh's judicial suggestions to Bush included several pro execution, antiabortion judges like Edith Brown Clement.who was on BP's side against Katrina victims.
https://www.motherjones.com/…/george-bush-fifth-circuit-co…/
c. William H Pryor, AG of Alabama & a racist executioner, was recommended by Kavanaugh to Bush and became a member of the 11th Circuit.
Pryor in a previous brief argued that the recognition of a constitutional right to sodomy would "logically extend" to activities like "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, incest and pedophilia"
d. Senator Leahy during hearings reported that
4670 files stolen by Mannie Miranda, Republican operative, were stolen from 6 Democrat senators
(including Leahy and Durbin)
on the Senate Judiciary committee. They were stolen to help Kavanaugh and Bush push forward his most
contentious judicial nominees, including Patricia Owen, Miguel Estrada.
e. Senator Dick Durbin asserted that Kavanaugh was involved in 3 areas of detention of and torture of detainees.
24. Poor Health
Kavanaugh has a reddish complexion indicating possible cholesterol and blood pressure problems.
25. Hypocrisy
a Is it not inconsistent to call oneself prolife while favoring judicial murder and illegal war?
b. Kavanaugh worked on the questions to be asked of Clinton after he was subpoena'd. But now he says no one has a right to subpoena Trump.
26. Catholics On Court
Kavanaugh if confirmed would make the Court 55% Catholic John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Sotomayor are all Catholic. In exchange for the silence of US Catholic bishops about illegal wars, Bush 1 and 2 gave them Catholics for the Supreme Court. Prolife did not mean antiwar or antiexecution for the male Catholics.
https://religionnews.com/2018/07/12/why-catholics-and-jews-dominate-at-t...
27. US Supreme Court Most Powerful In World .. Antidemocratic
The Supreme Court, a recent author of a book about it said, has given more power to the justices than any other court in the world. These Republican men are not elected by the people. They as of this time are assigned to lifetime terms. This antidemocratic institution is the dead hand of the past. Who is guilty of contempt for this court? The entire world.
28. Kavanaugh Enemy Of Voting Rights
Over 100 civil rights groups oppose the Kavanaugh nomination.
Like the 4 Republicans now on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh is a proponent of racist gerrymandering and voted to uphold South Carolina's racist vote suppression, citing Indiana's racist vote suppression law as an authority.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/kavanaughs-record-doesnt-bode-well-for-voting-rights-1/
Kavanaugh vote fraud in SC and Indiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/sunday/voting-rights-voter-id...
29. McConnell Denied Democrats A Vote On Obama Nomination
It is ironic that for several years on the DC Circuit Court, Brett Kavanaugh has served under Merrick Garland, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court the vote up or down for whom was denied by Mitch McConnell and the Republicans. McConnell refused even to talk to Garland.
30 Kavanaugh On Precedent
On Kavanaugh's promise to follow precedent re Roe V Wade, Senator Schumer said that Justices Roberts and Gorsuch made similar promises as in 2018 they broke 40 years of labor law precedent.
31. An Ostrich Re Global Baking
The human population is approaching 8 billion people. Nearly all of them use paper derived from treekilling for lumber, newspapers, napkins, writing, bulldozng properties for new buildings, for cattle ranches etc. Already climate extremes caused by massive worldwide deforestation are killing people.
32. A Prolife Catholic Who Helped Bomb Pregnant Women In Iraq and Afghanistan
Kavanaugh facilitated the bombing of pregnant women... he caused abortions by bomb.
33 A Leaker
MSNBC reported that individual journalists have said Kavanaugh while working for Starr was a leaker. He broke the law which he claims to honor.
34. Are Semiautomatic Rifles WMD's
In Heller V District of Columbia Kavanaugh favored semiautomatic rifles He has ruled that
bans on such weapons are unconstitutional.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/red-state-dems-have-no-reason-to-vote-for-brett-kavanaugh.ht
35. The Stars
Not for everyone... Gauquelin a skeptic ran several hundred thousand jobs & birthdates thru a computer and found amazing correlations. For the first time in 168 years Neptune is exactly opposite Kavanaugh's Pluto... this could mean he won't be confirmed.
36. Teller Of Falsehoods About Torture Of Detainees
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-kavanaughs-last-confirmation-hearing-could-haunt-him/565304/
Kavanaugh lied about Guantanamo detention. Both Senators Leahy and Durbin objected.
37. Kavanaugh Debt Exceeds Income
Major media outlets reported that Kavanaugh's debt exceeded his income
38. Opposition To Mueller Investigation
Kavanaugh in a public forum said he would like to overturn decisions affirming the constitutionality of the special counsel or independent counsel's appointment to investigate the president.
39. Kavanaugh Would Be A Judicial Murderer
Kavanaugh is a nominal observant Catholic. US bishops unanimously oppose the death penalty. Pope Francis has just decreed that opposition to the death penalty is inherently a corollary of human dignity. Yet Kavanaugh chose to work for G W Bush, the most executing governor in US history, a man who sent over 150 to their deaths. In that list were included innocents, the mentally ill, the mentally challenged, citizens of Canada, Mexico and Germany illegally denied access to their consulates.
40. Torture
As Mitch McConnell withholds records on Kavanaugh history in White House, questions resurface about his role in torture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/brett-kavanaugh-signing-statements.html
41 Double Standard
Kavanaugh devised the invasive unconstitutional questions asked to Clinton after subpoena'd. Kavanaugh has one stndard of law for Democratic presidents and another for illegitimately elected Republican ones. Republican presidents he believes have no right to be subpoena'd but Clinton he worked to subpoena. Republican presidents can't be indicted, he says, but he worked on the indictment of Clinton.
42. Opposes Government-provided Health Care
43 Violates Privacy Of All Americans
Kavanaugh gave wide latitude to government in spying on Americans and collecting personal data, says AP News.
44 Diversion Of Money From Public Schools
Kavanaugh, a Catholic, has worked with the Federalist Society to channel dollars from public schools to private schools, including Catholic ones. For this and other easons the NEA opposes his nomination.
45. Cap On 911 Families Of Victims at $500,000
Kavanaugh sought to cap 911 victim payments at 500 thousand https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-sought-to-cap-9-11-payouts-to-victims-families-at-dollar500g/ar-BBMEAYe
46 Opponent Of Presidential Transparency
47 Presidential Power Unchecked
Kavanaugh is an advocate of unchecked presidential power, in essence dictatorship. Trump seems to admire dictators.
48 Kavanaugh Ruled For GTMO Torturers Over Prisoners
Kavanaugh ruled in favor of the torturing illegal Guantanamo Bay prison and against the rights of the prisoners
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-guantanamo-detainees-international-law_us_5b453053e4b0c523e263ca03
49 Opposed To Class Action Lawsuits
Kavanaugh Would Be 'Solid Goalie' Against Class Actions – Big Law
https://biglawbusiness.com/kavanaugh-would-be-solid-goalie-against-class...
Jul 11, 2018 - Class action plaintiffs aren't likely to fare any better at the U.S. Supreme Court with the potential addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh . President
50. Racist Gerrymandering
Kavanaugh voted to allow a restrictive voter ID law to go into effect in South Carolina,
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/national-security-kavanaOugh-has-history-extreme-deference-president
51. Creator Of Super PACs
Kavanaugh believes the wealthy have more right to influence political opinion than the middle class or poor. He created the Super PAC and supports the SCOTUS decision that money is a form of speech.
He supports the concept that money talks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/brett-kavanaugh-the-man-who-created-the-super-pac/2018/08/20/e6c0763c-a241-11e8-b562-1db4209bd992_story.html?utm_term=.852c534acb21
52, Originalist Re Constitution
Kavanaugh like Scalia is an originalist. Literal originalists would favor slavery, no vote for women, a franchise only for property owners. Originalists want the crystallized dead hand of the past to prevent laws which support growing consciousness of the rights of women, blacks, Asians, of animals, birds, fishes, trees.
53. Hidden Actions
Five to seven million pages of documents generated by Kavanaugh at the White House have not been supplied to the GOP dominated Judiciary Comm. Senator Harris has said 96% of Kavanaugh's record is missing.
54. Unionbuster
Kavanaugh is a unionbuster.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-union-busting-employer-workers-rights_us_5b732521e4b025e3596b88c7
55. Corrupt Nomination Source
Kavanaugh has been nominated by Donald Trump who is under investigation for criminal activity
56. Refuses to recuse.
Senator Booker has several times asked Kavanaugh to recuse himself re Donald Trump's actions. Kavanaugh has not responded. This reminds us of Antonin Scalia who refused to recuse himself in Gore v Bush though 2 of his sons were attorneys for Bush. It underlines again Kavanaugh's role in the theft of the presidency of Al Gore by the Bush family and a corrupt Republican pentocracy on the court.
57. Plutocracy
The US is the ONLY alleged democracy in the world giving lifetime appointments to Supreme Court and federal judges. Why? The US is a plutocracy masked as a democracy.
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11024096/life-tenure-judges
The Charles Koch Foundation is one of many corporate funders of the Federalist Society which selected a list of procorporate prodeathpenalty judicial possibiities.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-reveals-kavana...
58. Dead Law
As a corollary of Kavanaugh's originalist theory is the belief that the law is dead, not a growing living organism. As such there can, Kavanaugh believes, be no regulation of any guns except those existing in 1789, no regulation in any area of life in which change has occurred. Kavanaugh's beliefs lead ultimately to rulings that slavery is admissible, that women should not vote.
59. Denial Of Sovereignty
One of Brett Kavanaugh's rationalizations for denying a teen immigrant in custody the right to an abortion was that she had no family or friends. His statement denies the sovereignty of the individual.
60. Choice Of Rightwing Groups
Kavanaugh was not chosen as nominee by an elected president but by the Federalist Society with the help of the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He was promoted by cable industry owned CSpan which like Kavanaugh wants an end to net neutrality.
61 Power to stop Trump impeachment
Kavanaugh if approved might have the power with 4 other Republicans to stop Trump's impeachment
62 Secret Rightwing Corporations Funding Ads
Tens of millions of dollars of dark money, Senator Whitehouse illustrated, are being spent in ads promoting Kavanaugh
Eighty cases have been decided on a partisan basis by the Roberts court. In virtually all of these cases, dark money is behind the briefs. See Senator Whitehouse in CSpan.org hearings on Kavanaugh.
63 More Prevarication
a. Kavanaugh said of his own nomination by Trump: 'No President has ever consulted more widely, or talked with more people from more backgrounds, to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination.' An absurdity. Trump outsourced to the rightwing Federalist Society the selection of a list of candidates from whom he selected Kavanaugh.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-announcing-judge-brett-m-kavanaugh-nominee-associate-justice-supreme-court-united-states/
b. Senator Durbin's letter about Kavanaugh's claim in 2006 that he had nothing to do with Bush regime mistreatment of Guantanamo and other detainees:
' I request that you disqualify yourself in all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants. Your lack of candor at your nomination hearing suggests you cannot approach these cases with impartiality and an open mind.'
64 Possible Silence
Was Kavanaugh silent about Judge Alex Kozinski's sexual impositions to 9 or more women during the year that Kavanaugh clerked for him?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-ov
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/did-brett-kavanaugh-know-about-alex-kozi/
65 Theft
a Receiving Stolen Email marked 'Committe Confidential'
Kavanaugh received 6 documents stolen from Senator Leahy by Manny Miranda, Republican staffer on the Judiciary Committee, re Leahy's concern that Kavanaugh had perjured himself in his 2006 testimony. Senator Leahy asked why Kavanaugh didn't question the source.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pat-leahy-brett-kavanaugh_us_5b9019bfe4b0162f472951ee
b How many more crimes are being hidden by Kavanaugh's former assistant Bill Burke and other Republican operatives who have held virtually all of 5 to 7 million pages of documents?
66 Guns
The hunter dominated NRA is spending millions advertising
in favor of Kavanaugh
67 Brevity
Kavanaugh's unwillingness to reduce his verbose answers despite several senators' requests for brevity was a factor in the 2nd day of hearings extending beyond 12 hours as well as senators' time to question being truncated.
68 Birth Control
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing 202 224 3121 Please tell your senators to vote no
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-birth-control_us_5b917b79e4b0162f472b3cb8
69 Vote Suppression
Judge Kavanaugh upheld a racist South Carolina law designed to limit African American voting. He has a poor record re affirmative action. The 48 members of the Congressional Black Caucus representing 70 million or more African Americans and all Americans ask for a no vote on Kavanaugh
https://cbc.house.gov/membership/
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/405368-congressional-black-caucus-says...
70 Violation of Clinton's Right To Privacy
Kavanaugh helped Ken Starr spend 45 million dollars violating Bill Clinton's constitutional right to privacy in his consensual sex life. Clinton was the victim of a black op (Linda Tripp of Delta Force and Lucianne Goldberg of Regnery were coconspirators) because Clinton would not invade Iraq. Starr chose Kavanaugh to write the final report in which Kavanaugh included unnecessarilly salacious details. Kavanaugh called for Clinton's impeachment.
71 Foe Of Animals
a The hunter dominated NRA is spending millions to push for Kavanaugh's confirmation.
b. We are defined to some extent by those we cite as authorities. Kavanaugh's admiration for hunter, warmonger, racist, franchise denier, unionbuster, thief of the 2000 presidential election Scalia is regrettable.
c. Kavanaugh's opposition to environmental protection regulations has meant animals' water was poisoned or eliminated by drought, their air fouled, their earth made suffocatingly hot.
d. In 2010, a SeaWorld trainer was killed by a killer whale in front of a crowd of people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered the company to take measures to keep trainers safe and said that SeaWorld knew these animals were dangerous. Sea World continued to appeal the case after the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission upheld OSHA’s citation, which brought it to the D.C. Circuit Court. In 2014, the Court found that the business’ current precautions were inadequate. But Kavanaugh dissented and called the show at SeaWorld a sport like many others.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-sides-with-big-b…/
e. Senator Dick Durbin: 'At least 1/3 of workers in slaughterhouses are immigrants doing lowpaid dangerous hot sweaty work. Immigrants are pressured not toreport injuries. Exposure to dangerous chemicals, sexual imposition and child labor are common.
Judge Kavanaugh was one of the judges in Agri Processor, a Brooklyn slaughterhouse v the NLRB. There were 12 hour shifts, no overtime, 400 of the workers were undocumented immigrants (The owner knew they could not complain because of fear of police). If they complained they were fired. The plant owner was sentenced to 27 years in jail (Trump recently pardoned him).
Only Judge Kavanaugh of the judges assigned to this case before and after sided with the owner rather than the workers. He ruled that the workere were not employees,
though NLRB regulation said otherwise.' (typed from tv testimony)
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22iowa.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/brett-kavanaugh-ruled-agai…
f. Not only human beings but animals, birds, frogs, fishes, butterflies and bees have been harmed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which Brett Kavanaugh helped G W Bush initiate.
g. As a conservative Catholic does Brett Kavanaugh believe, as some bishops have taught in violation to the teachings of Jesus, that animals have no souls. If so that would affect his rulings on any animal rights issues.
h, Judge Kavanaugh is not a vegan or vegetarian which indicates that he believes his right to eat animals is greater than their right not to be eaten. As a circuit court judge, his opinions are amplified.
i. The fact that Judge Kavanaugh has been nominated by Donald Trump who at his trophy hunter son's suggestion nominated trophy hunter Ryan Zinke to head the Dept of Interior which is charged with protecting the nation's
animals, by Donald Trump who ended Obama's ban on importing the parts of murdered elephants into the US, who tried to start a business selling steaks, etc is an indication that Trump believes Kavanaugh adopts the Trump agenda.
Brett Kavanaugh's rulings on the circuit court and actions in the Bush White House have been as cold and dead as the marble halls of the Supreme Court to which he aspires.
j. The Supreme Court has at least 8 graduates of vivisecting
Harvard and Yale.
72 Endangered Species
"An analysis of Kavanaugh’s 12-year record on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit finds that he has consistently ruled against measures to protect species. In the 18 significant, species-related suits that have come before Kavanaugh, he’s decided against protections in 17― or about 95 percent of the time."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kavanaugh-endangered-species_us_5b7...
https://twitter.com/CenterForBioDiv/status/1039886703257939968
73. Allegations of Kavanaugh Sexual Misconduct
Professor Christine Blasey Ford is a credible witness in her allegation that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her when she was 15 and he 17. She has passed a lie detector test administered by a retired FBI agent. Her therapist's notes about Dr Ford's
discussing this in 2012 have been sent to the committee.
Attempted rape is more a crime of power domination than of sex. Many politicians who seek power over others have been charged with rape. Professor Ford wrote that Mark Judge was in the room during the attempt, called by some the 'devil's triangle'. Judge has in the past has written about Bart O'Kavanaugh. Some think it is Kavanaugh's excessive drinking to which he referred.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-dianne-feinstein.html
74.
Brett Kavanaugh designed very aggressive questions of Bill Clinton whose private nonviolent and consensual sex life was not his or any other Republican's business. But Kavanaugh at the White House in a practice session regarding his testimony re Professor Ford refused to answer questions about his own private sex life. Kavanaugh is facing questions about a felony, and not about a private affair.
75. Native American opposition.
Native Americans oppose Kavanaugh nomination for several reasons.
Native Americans ask Murkowski to vote against Kavanaugh
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lisa-murkowski-brett-kavanaugh-native-alaska_us_5b92bed6e4b0511db3e20921
76.
Silence re Judge Alex Kozinski's misconduct
Many are incredulous about Kavanaugh's allegation that he knew nothing of the many incidents of sexual misconduct of Judge Koznski, his boss.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/kavanaugh-denies-knowledge-of-alleged-sexual-misconduct-by-former-boss/
**
Please ask your friends living in states with 1 or 2 Republican senators to call 202 224 3121 to ask
for a no vote on Kavanaugh. Please call talkshows such as
CSpan's Washington Journal (7 to 10 am EST) 202 748 8002,]202 748 8001, 202 748 8000 depending on party affiliation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22iowa.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22io...
Pacific Legal Foundation a bad group
the need to reform who can be amicus group
******************
Senator Schumer wrote
'“From the notorious Starr report, to the Florida recount, to the President’s secrecy and privilege claims, to post-9/11 legislative battles including the Victims Compensation Fund, to ideological judicial nomination fights, if there has been a partisan political fight that needed a very bright legal foot soldier in the last decade, Brett Kavanaugh was probably there.”
A stream of new informati on has come in in regards to Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaughs-unorthodox-path-to-tr...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/trump-top-picks-supreme-co…
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04judge.html
https://www.nytimes.com/…/bush-aide-on-court-nominees-faces…
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/6/28/appalling-judges-who-could-r...
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article214603005.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/born-inside-beltway-kavanaugh-part-o...
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/6/28/appalling-judges-who-could-r...
http://aclu.org
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.9b42fb2c5bcf
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/07/kavanaugh-on-net-neutrality-u-s-telecom-association-v-federal-communications-commission/
https://apnews.com/2a9d24cf6cc3444c905fdaaec5bc5f01/Kavanaugh's-support-for-surveilling-Americans-raises-concern
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Sens-spar-over-access-to-Kavanaugh-s-staff-13109560.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/us/politics/kavanaugh-white-house-documents-bush.html
**************
Please if you agree call 202 224 3121, the Senate and make your views known on talk shows, to friends, etc.
33714
202 224 3121 Please ask your 2 senators for a no vote on Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh, new documents reveal, perjured himself in at least 5 areas, by force denied a teen abortion, by force prevented handicapped victims of guardians from refusing medical procedures, convinced Bush to nominate torture brief writing John Roberts, with Alberto Gonzales filled the 5th circuit with pro execution and antiabortion judges, making it the most executing circuit court of all, helped Bush steal the election from Gore & illegally invade Iraq and Afghanistan, violated the privacy of President Clinton, denied slaughterhouse workers as he sided with a brutal Brooklyn slaughterhouse owner, denied worker rights in general, sided consistently with the rich over the poor, received the stolen files of Senator Leahy from a Republican spy, etc etc.
The National Archives officials have said they need til October to process 5 to 7 million pages. The Judiciary Committee has access to only 7%, and the public only to 4%. This censorship has never happened before. Meanwhile Senators Grassley, McConnell, Cornyn, Cruz, Hatch and others continue their scofflaw behavior.
A majority of Americans oppose nominee for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh and his record. He was nominated by Donald Trump for whom less than 1/4 of US eligible voters voted, a man whose campaign was studded with crimes of fraud. Senators Booker, Warren, Feingold and others have said that Trump, under criminal investigation, should not nominate anyone. Why should citizens work to defeat the Kavanaugh nomination?
*
Please if you agree call 202 224 3121, the Senate and make your views known on talk shows, to friends, etc.
*
1 Kavanaugh Perjury In At Least 5 Areas
Kavanaugh perjured himself under oath denying his involvement in torture briefs, the nomination of judges William Pryor who called Roe V Wade an abomination and of Charles Pickering, the receiving of stolen goods, and warrantless wiretapping.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/five-times-brett-kavanaugh-appears-to-have-lied-to-congress-while-under-oath/
The NY Times editorial board has said Kavanaugh can't be trusted.
Kavanaugh has a phenomenal memory until it comes to areas in which he acted criminally or immorally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/.../brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings.html
2 Theft of 2000 Election
Judge Brett Kavanaugh helped G W Bush, Jeb Bush, 5 GOP justices of the Supreme Court etc. steal the election in which the majority of voters voted for Al Gore.
3 Torture
Kavanaugh convinced G W Bush to nominate John Roberts, who wrote briefs advocating torture, to the Supreme Court. He worked to have John Yoo, advocate of torture of detainees, nominated to the judgeship. Kavanaugh perjured himself in regard to his involvement in promoting torture.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/07/email-marked-confidential-gop-shows-kavanaugh-pushed-john-yoo-legal-architect-bush
4 Kavanaugh Is Hostile To International Law Such As Geneva Convention
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/national-security-kavanaOugh-has-history-extreme-deference-president
5 Kavanaugh Promoted The Iraq War
Kavanaugh facilitated G W Bush's illegal immoral wars, as both played as colonizing cowboys of imperialism.
6 Opposes Net Neutrality
Kavanaugh thinks net neutrality violates the 1st amendment.
The truth is the opposite. He is on the side of huge media companies who want to censor and slow down freedom of speech on the internet.Kavanaugh was overruled by other judges on the DC Circuit Court. He is opposed to net neutrality while the majority ruled broadband is a utility not a luxury. Because of Republicans who agree with him, huge media companies are now blocking websites, censoring content, and slowing down websites at will.
7 Kavanaugh Believes Guardians Have The Right To Force Medical Procedures On Clients
He is opposed by many disability groups because of his denial of the rights of the handicapped in several areas.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/disability-rights-groups-come-out-against-kavanaugh-scotus
The Autistic Self Advocacy Netw opposes Kavanaugh In Doe ex rel. Tarlow v. D.C., Judge Kavanaugh ruled against two women who had been forced to have abortions and one woman who was forced to have eye surgery. The D.C. agency over people with developmental disabilities consented to all three procedures without discussing them with the women. Kavanaugh wrote that because the women lacked “capacity” to make their own medical decisions independently, they had no right even to be consulted
Is it inconsistent that Kavanaugh prevented an abortion forcing teen in detention to have child but ruled in favor in another case in which authorities forced abortions on women. In both cases Kavanaugh deferred to authority figures rather than individuals
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2018/08/asan-opposes-supreme-court-nominee-b...
8 Denial Of Right To Abortion
a. While on the circuit court Kavanaugh voted to deny an immigrant teen in detention her right to an abortion. He violated existing law. Garza V Hargan
b. "Some 68,000 women die of unsafe abortion annually. Of the women who survive unsafe abortion, 5 million will suffer long-term health complications." Lisa Haddad MD
Causes of pregnancy and childbirth deaths besides unsafe abortion are postpartum bleeding hypertension, postpartum infections blood clots, placental abruptions etc.
c. Kavanaugh opposes access to morning after pills as a form
of birth control.
d. Kavanaugh worked to have William Pryor nominated. Pryor had called Roe v Wade an abomination.
e. Kavanaugh White House emails indicate he would criminalize abortion.
9. Almost Always Sides With Big Business In Lawsuits
Kavanaugh in 12 years on the Supreme Court has almost always sided with big business.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/30/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-voice-corporations-business-column/821530002/
10. Almost Always Sides With Employers Over Employees
Yet another example of Kavanaugh's slavish ratification of earthly authority is that he has almost always sided with employers ratter than their employees.
a. Kavanaugh said AT&T lawfully prohibited employees from wearing union shirts on the job.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-sides-with-big-business-not-workers-right-1dcb8c63f619/
11. A foe of Mother Earth
Many question that living beings can survive global baking without earth protecting action. 25 major environmental groups oppose his nomination.
In White Stallion Energy Center LLC v EPA. Kavanaugh ruled the EPA must take money into consideration in regulating carbon emissions of power plants which cause lung cancer, acid rain, etc. He has a Trump Scott Pruitt Charles Wheeler Ryan Zinke approach to the environment and was opposed to Obama's environmental protections and to EPA right of regulation.
He wrote that the EPA had no right to limit greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.ecowatch.com/kavanaugh-supreme-court-environment-epa-2585783500.html
12 . Gay Marriage
Senator Cory Booker told Kavanaugh that many married gay couples are worried they will lose their marriage status if he is confirmed.
13. Opposition To Defendants Accused Of Crimes
Kavanaugh has almost always supported wardesn and opposed defendants in criminal cases
14. Tyranny Of Vivivsecting War Invested Harvard And Yale
Kavanaugh if confirmed would make the 9th graduate of either Harvard or Yale. Both are invested in war and both have tortured tens of millions of animals in research labs.
15. Opposed To Govt Involvement In Health Care
Kanaugh in a complicated opinion ruled against Obamacare.
16. Male Interference In Woman's Right To Choose
Brett Kavanaugh would put the cold violating hand of 5 Republican male justices as well as male legislators in states on a woman's body denying her the sovereign right to decide her own life. This is the more serious because millions or tens of millions of women have in the past died of placental abruptions, of bleeding to death, of breech births, of sepsis, of myriad causes of iatrogenic or physician error, of infections when forced to seek a nonlegal abortionist.
17. Senator Ted Kennedy's Opposition
Senator Edward M Kennedy about Brett Kavanaugh: "(He is) the youngest, least experienced and most partisan candidate in years", Kavanaugh's nomination was stalled for 3 years because of his heinous record in helping steal the people's election from Al Gore as a member of Bush's team, his unconstitutional harassment of Bill Clinton whose impeachment was fueled by those angered that he would not invade Iraq etc.
18. 911 Lies
Ashley Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh's wife was personal secretary to G W Bush in the White House and like Brett Kavanugh was in the White House on Sept 11, 2001. Brett Kavanaugh is part of the coverup of the truth of the World Trade Center explosion . http://911truth.org
19. Federalist Society Antidemocratic
Donald Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh because of the 25 judges on the rightwing Federalist list of Leonard Leo, Kavanaugh is the one who most strongly has written that no one has a right to indict a sitting president. (Perhaps Kavanaugh thinks no one should b able to impeach a president.)
20. Lawsuit Opinions 300 Of Them Re His Slavish Deference to Authorities
21. He Ruled Employers May Deny Employee Access To Birth Control
Kavanaugh has ruled that employers have the right to deny employee access to birth control.
22. Kavanaugh has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protecton Bureau was unconstitutional.
Richard Cordray who ran that bureau and forced banksters and payday lenders to obey the law and return 11.2 billion dollars to 30 million Americans is now running as a Democrat for governor of Ohio.
http://fortune.com/2017/01/27/donald-trump-cfpb-consumer-protection-financial-bureau-elizabeth-warren/
23. Kavanaugh Supports Judicial Murder, Serial Killing Of Prisoners
PBS reported that Judge Kavanaugh if he were to become a justice, would be in favor of the judicial murder known as execution.
Kavanaugh's Judicial Recommendations to Bush
a. Picked Torture Advocate John Roberts For SCOTUS
On the basis of Kavanaugh's advice, Bush picked
John Roberts, judicial serial killer and torture advocate, as his nominee.
b. Because of Kavanaugh's and Alberto Gonzales' judicial recommendations to Bush, the 5th Circuit is the most executing Circuit in the country.
While in the White House counsel office, Brett Kavanaugh's judicial suggestions to Bush included several pro execution, antiabortion judges like Edith Brown Clement.who was on BP's side against Katrina victims.
https://www.motherjones.com/…/george-bush-fifth-circuit-co…/
c. William H Pryor, AG of Alabama & a racist executioner, was recommended by Kavanaugh to Bush and became a member of the 11th Circuit.
Pryor in a previous brief argued that the recognition of a constitutional right to sodomy would "logically extend" to activities like "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, incest and pedophilia"
d. Senator Leahy during hearings reported that
4670 files stolen by Mannie Miranda, Republican operative, were stolen from 6 Democrat senators
(including Leahy and Durbin)
on the Senate Judiciary committee. They were stolen to help Kavanaugh and Bush push forward his most
contentious judicial nominees, including Patricia Owen, Miguel Estrada.
e. Senator Dick Durbin asserted that Kavanaugh was involved in 3 areas of detention of and torture of detainees.
24. Poor Health
Kavanaugh has a reddish complexion indicating possible cholesterol and blood pressure problems.
25. Hypocrisy
a Is it not inconsistent to call oneself prolife while favoring judicial murder and illegal war?
b. Kavanaugh worked on the questions to be asked of Clinton after he was subpoena'd. But now he says no one has a right to subpoena Trump.
26. Catholics On Court
Kavanaugh if confirmed would make the Court 55% Catholic John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Sotomayor are all Catholic. In exchange for the silence of US Catholic bishops about illegal wars, Bush 1 and 2 gave them Catholics for the Supreme Court. Prolife did not mean antiwar or antiexecution for the male Catholics.
https://religionnews.com/2018/07/12/why-catholics-and-jews-dominate-at-t...
27. US Supreme Court Most Powerful In World .. Antidemocratic
The Supreme Court, a recent author of a book about it said, has given more power to the justices than any other court in the world. These Republican men are not elected by the people. They as of this time are assigned to lifetime terms. This antidemocratic institution is the dead hand of the past. Who is guilty of contempt for this court? The entire world.
28. Kavanaugh Enemy Of Voting Rights
Over 100 civil rights groups oppose the Kavanaugh nomination.
Like the 4 Republicans now on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh is a proponent of racist gerrymandering and voted to uphold South Carolina's racist vote suppression, citing Indiana's racist vote suppression law as an authority.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/kavanaughs-record-doesnt-bode-well-for-voting-rights-1/
Kavanaugh vote fraud in SC and Indiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/sunday/voting-rights-voter-id...
29. McConnell Denied Democrats A Vote On Obama Nomination
It is ironic that for several years on the DC Circuit Court, Brett Kavanaugh has served under Merrick Garland, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court the vote up or down for whom was denied by Mitch McConnell and the Republicans. McConnell refused even to talk to Garland.
30 Kavanaugh On Precedent
On Kavanaugh's promise to follow precedent re Roe V Wade, Senator Schumer said that Justices Roberts and Gorsuch made similar promises as in 2018 they broke 40 years of labor law precedent.
31. An Ostrich Re Global Baking
The human population is approaching 8 billion people. Nearly all of them use paper derived from treekilling for lumber, newspapers, napkins, writing, bulldozng properties for new buildings, for cattle ranches etc. Already climate extremes caused by massive worldwide deforestation are killing people.
32. A Prolife Catholic Who Helped Bomb Pregnant Women In Iraq and Afghanistan
Kavanaugh facilitated the bombing of pregnant women... he caused abortions by bomb.
33 A Leaker
MSNBC reported that individual journalists have said Kavanaugh while working for Starr was a leaker. He broke the law which he claims to honor.
34. Are Semiautomatic Rifles WMD's
In Heller V District of Columbia Kavanaugh favored semiautomatic rifles He has ruled that
bans on such weapons are unconstitutional.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/red-state-dems-have-no-reason-to-vote-for-brett-kavanaugh.ht
35. The Stars
Not for everyone... Gauquelin a skeptic ran several hundred thousand jobs & birthdates thru a computer and found amazing correlations. For the first time in 168 years Neptune is exactly opposite Kavanaugh's Pluto... this could mean he won't be confirmed.
36. Teller Of Falsehoods About Torture Of Detainees
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-kavanaughs-last-confirmation-hearing-could-haunt-him/565304/
Kavanaugh lied about Guantanamo detention. Both Senators Leahy and Durbin objected.
37. Kavanaugh Debt Exceeds Income
Major media outlets reported that Kavanaugh's debt exceeded his income
38. Opposition To Mueller Investigation
Kavanaugh in a public forum said he would like to overturn decisions affirming the constitutionality of the special counsel or independent counsel's appointment to investigate the president.
39. Kavanaugh Would Be A Judicial Murderer
Kavanaugh is a nominal observant Catholic. US bishops unanimously oppose the death penalty. Pope Francis has just decreed that opposition to the death penalty is inherently a corollary of human dignity. Yet Kavanaugh chose to work for G W Bush, the most executing governor in US history, a man who sent over 150 to their deaths. In that list were included innocents, the mentally ill, the mentally challenged, citizens of Canada, Mexico and Germany illegally denied access to their consulates.
40. Torture
As Mitch McConnell withholds records on Kavanaugh history in White House, questions resurface about his role in torture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/brett-kavanaugh-signing-statements.html
41 Double Standard
Kavanaugh devised the invasive unconstitutional questions asked to Clinton after subpoena'd. Kavanaugh has one stndard of law for Democratic presidents and another for illegitimately elected Republican ones. Republican presidents he believes have no right to be subpoena'd but Clinton he worked to subpoena. Republican presidents can't be indicted, he says, but he worked on the indictment of Clinton.
42. Opposes Government-provided Health Care
43 Violates Privacy Of All Americans
Kavanaugh gave wide latitude to government in spying on Americans and collecting personal data, says AP News.
44 Diversion Of Money From Public Schools
Kavanaugh, a Catholic, has worked with the Federalist Society to channel dollars from public schools to private schools, including Catholic ones. For this and other easons the NEA opposes his nomination.
45. Cap On 911 Families Of Victims at $500,000
Kavanaugh sought to cap 911 victim payments at 500 thousand https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-sought-to-cap-9-11-payouts-to-victims-families-at-dollar500g/ar-BBMEAYe
46 Opponent Of Presidential Transparency
47 Presidential Power Unchecked
Kavanaugh is an advocate of unchecked presidential power, in essence dictatorship. Trump seems to admire dictators.
48 Kavanaugh Ruled For GTMO Torturers Over Prisoners
Kavanaugh ruled in favor of the torturing illegal Guantanamo Bay prison and against the rights of the prisoners
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-guantanamo-detainees-international-law_us_5b453053e4b0c523e263ca03
49 Opposed To Class Action Lawsuits
Kavanaugh Would Be 'Solid Goalie' Against Class Actions – Big Law
https://biglawbusiness.com/kavanaugh-would-be-solid-goalie-against-class...
Jul 11, 2018 - Class action plaintiffs aren't likely to fare any better at the U.S. Supreme Court with the potential addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh . President
50. Racist Gerrymandering
Kavanaugh voted to allow a restrictive voter ID law to go into effect in South Carolina,
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/national-security-kavanaOugh-has-history-extreme-deference-president
51. Creator Of Super PACs
Kavanaugh believes the wealthy have more right to influence political opinion than the middle class or poor. He created the Super PAC and supports the SCOTUS decision that money is a form of speech.
He supports the concept that money talks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/brett-kavanaugh-the-man-who-created-the-super-pac/2018/08/20/e6c0763c-a241-11e8-b562-1db4209bd992_story.html?utm_term=.852c534acb21
52, Originalist Re Constitution
Kavanaugh like Scalia is an originalist. Literal originalists would favor slavery, no vote for women, a franchise only for property owners. Originalists want the crystallized dead hand of the past to prevent laws which support growing consciousness of the rights of women, blacks, Asians, of animals, birds, fishes, trees.
53. Hidden Actions
Five to seven million pages of documents generated by Kavanaugh at the White House have not been supplied to the GOP dominated Judiciary Comm. Senator Harris has said 96% of Kavanaugh's record is missing.
54. Unionbuster
Kavanaugh is a unionbuster.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-union-busting-employer-workers-rights_us_5b732521e4b025e3596b88c7
55. Corrupt Nomination Source
Kavanaugh has been nominated by Donald Trump who is under investigation for criminal activity
56. Refuses to recuse.
Senator Booker has several times asked Kavanaugh to recuse himself re Donald Trump's actions. Kavanaugh has not responded. This reminds us of Antonin Scalia who refused to recuse himself in Gore v Bush though 2 of his sons were attorneys for Bush. It underlines again Kavanaugh's role in the theft of the presidency of Al Gore by the Bush family and a corrupt Republican pentocracy on the court.
57. Plutocracy
The US is the ONLY alleged democracy in the world giving lifetime appointments to Supreme Court and federal judges. Why? The US is a plutocracy masked as a democracy.
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11024096/life-tenure-judges
The Charles Koch Foundation is one of many corporate funders of the Federalist Society which selected a list of procorporate prodeathpenalty judicial possibiities.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-reveals-kavana...
58. Dead Law
As a corollary of Kavanaugh's originalist theory is the belief that the law is dead, not a growing living organism. As such there can, Kavanaugh believes, be no regulation of any guns except those existing in 1789, no regulation in any area of life in which change has occurred. Kavanaugh's beliefs lead ultimately to rulings that slavery is admissible, that women should not vote.
59. Denial Of Sovereignty
One of Brett Kavanaugh's rationalizations for denying a teen immigrant in custody the right to an abortion was that she had no family or friends. His statement denies the sovereignty of the individual.
60. Choice Of Rightwing Groups
Kavanaugh was not chosen as nominee by an elected president but by the Federalist Society with the help of the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He was promoted by cable industry owned CSpan which like Kavanaugh wants an end to net neutrality.
61 Power to stop Trump impeachment
Kavanaugh if approved might have the power with 4 other Republicans to stop Trump's impeachment
62 Secret Rightwing Corporations Funding Ads
Tens of millions of dollars of dark money, Senator Whitehouse illustrated, are being spent in ads promoting Kavanaugh
Eighty cases have been decided on a partisan basis by the Roberts court. In virtually all of these cases, dark money is behind the briefs. See Senator Whitehouse in CSpan.org hearings on Kavanaugh.
63 More Prevarication
a. Kavanaugh said of his own nomination by Trump: 'No President has ever consulted more widely, or talked with more people from more backgrounds, to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination.' An absurdity. Trump outsourced to the rightwing Federalist Society the selection of a list of candidates from whom he selected Kavanaugh.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-announcing-judge-brett-m-kavanaugh-nominee-associate-justice-supreme-court-united-states/
b. Senator Durbin's letter about Kavanaugh's claim in 2006 that he had nothing to do with Bush regime mistreatment of Guantanamo and other detainees:
' I request that you disqualify yourself in all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants. Your lack of candor at your nomination hearing suggests you cannot approach these cases with impartiality and an open mind.'
64 Possible Silence
Was Kavanaugh silent about Judge Alex Kozinski's sexual impositions to 9 or more women during the year that Kavanaugh clerked for him?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-ov
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/did-brett-kavanaugh-know-about-alex-kozi/
65 Theft
a Receiving Stolen Email marked 'Committe Confidential'
Kavanaugh received 6 documents stolen from Senator Leahy by Manny Miranda, Republican staffer on the Judiciary Committee, re Leahy's concern that Kavanaugh had perjured himself in his 2006 testimony. Senator Leahy asked why Kavanaugh didn't question the source.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pat-leahy-brett-kavanaugh_us_5b9019bfe4b0162f472951ee
b How many more crimes are being hidden by Kavanaugh's former assistant Bill Burke and other Republican operatives who have held virtually all of 5 to 7 million pages of documents?
66 Guns
The hunter dominated NRA is spending millions advertising
in favor of Kavanaugh
67 Brevity
Kavanaugh's unwillingness to reduce his verbose answers despite several senators' requests for brevity was a factor in the 2nd day of hearings extending beyond 12 hours as well as senators' time to question being truncated.
68 Birth Control
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing 202 224 3121 Please tell your senators to vote no
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-birth-control_us_5b917b79e4b0162f472b3cb8
69 Vote Suppression
Judge Kavanaugh upheld a racist South Carolina law designed to limit African American voting. He has a poor record re affirmative action. The 48 members of the Congressional Black Caucus representing 70 million or more African Americans and all Americans ask for a no vote on Kavanaugh
https://cbc.house.gov/membership/
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/405368-congressional-black-caucus-says...
70 Violation of Clinton's Right To Privacy
Kavanaugh helped Ken Starr spend 45 million dollars violating Bill Clinton's constitutional right to privacy in his consensual sex life. Clinton was the victim of a black op (Linda Tripp of Delta Force and Lucianne Goldberg of Regnery were coconspirators) because Clinton would not invade Iraq. Starr chose Kavanaugh to write the final report in which Kavanaugh included unnecessarilly salacious details. Kavanaugh called for Clinton's impeachment.
71 Foe Of Animals
a The hunter dominated NRA is spending millions to push for Kavanaugh's confirmation.
b. We are defined to some extent by those we cite as authorities. Kavanaugh's admiration for hunter, warmonger, racist, franchise denier, unionbuster, thief of the 2000 presidential election Scalia is regrettable.
c. Kavanaugh's opposition to environmental protection regulations has meant animals' water was poisoned or eliminated by drought, their air fouled, their earth made suffocatingly hot.
d. In 2010, a SeaWorld trainer was killed by a killer whale in front of a crowd of people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered the company to take measures to keep trainers safe and said that SeaWorld knew these animals were dangerous. Sea World continued to appeal the case after the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission upheld OSHA’s citation, which brought it to the D.C. Circuit Court. In 2014, the Court found that the business’ current precautions were inadequate. But Kavanaugh dissented and called the show at SeaWorld a sport like many others.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-sides-with-big-b…/
e. Senator Dick Durbin: 'At least 1/3 of workers in slaughterhouses are immigrants doing lowpaid dangerous hot sweaty work. Immigrants are pressured not toreport injuries. Exposure to dangerous chemicals, sexual imposition and child labor are common.
Judge Kavanaugh was one of the judges in Agri Processor, a Brooklyn slaughterhouse v the NLRB. There were 12 hour shifts, no overtime, 400 of the workers were undocumented immigrants (The owner knew they could not complain because of fear of police). If they complained they were fired. The plant owner was sentenced to 27 years in jail (Trump recently pardoned him).
Only Judge Kavanaugh of the judges assigned to this case before and after sided with the owner rather than the workers. He ruled that the workere were not employees,
though NLRB regulation said otherwise.' (typed from tv testimony)
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22iowa.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/brett-kavanaugh-ruled-agai…
f. Not only human beings but animals, birds, frogs, fishes, butterflies and bees have been harmed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which Brett Kavanaugh helped G W Bush initiate.
g. As a conservative Catholic does Brett Kavanaugh believe, as some bishops have taught in violation to the teachings of Jesus, that animals have no souls. If so that would affect his rulings on any animal rights issues.
h, Judge Kavanaugh is not a vegan or vegetarian which indicates that he believes his right to eat animals is greater than their right not to be eaten. As a circuit court judge, his opinions are amplified.
i. The fact that Judge Kavanaugh has been nominated by Donald Trump who at his trophy hunter son's suggestion nominated trophy hunter Ryan Zinke to head the Dept of Interior which is charged with protecting the nation's
animals, by Donald Trump who ended Obama's ban on importing the parts of murdered elephants into the US, who tried to start a business selling steaks, etc is an indication that Trump believes Kavanaugh adopts the Trump agenda.
Brett Kavanaugh's rulings on the circuit court and actions in the Bush White House have been as cold and dead as the marble halls of the Supreme Court to which he aspires.
j. The Supreme Court has at least 8 graduates of vivisecting
Harvard and Yale.
72 Endangered Species
"An analysis of Kavanaugh’s 12-year record on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit finds that he has consistently ruled against measures to protect species. In the 18 significant, species-related suits that have come before Kavanaugh, he’s decided against protections in 17― or about 95 percent of the time."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kavanaugh-endangered-species_us_5b7...
https://twitter.com/CenterForBioDiv/status/1039886703257939968
73. Allegations of Kavanaugh Sexual Misconduct
Professor Christine Blasey Ford is a credible witness in her allegation that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her when she was 15 and he 17. She has passed a lie detector test administered by a retired FBI agent. Her therapist's notes about Dr Ford's
discussing this in 2012 have been sent to the committee.
Attempted rape is more a crime of power domination than of sex. Many politicians who seek power over others have been charged with rape. Professor Ford wrote that Mark Judge was in the room during the attempt, called by some the 'devil's triangle'. Judge has in the past has written about Bart O'Kavanaugh. Some think it is Kavanaugh's excessive drinking to which he referred.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-dianne-feinstein.html
74.
Brett Kavanaugh designed very aggressive questions of Bill Clinton whose private nonviolent and consensual sex life was not his or any other Republican's business. But Kavanaugh at the White House in a practice session regarding his testimony re Professor Ford refused to answer questions about his own private sex life. Kavanaugh is facing questions about a felony, and not about a private affair.
75. Native American opposition.
Native Americans oppose Kavanaugh nomination for several reasons.
Native Americans ask Murkowski to vote against Kavanaugh
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lisa-murkowski-brett-kavanaugh-native-alaska_us_5b92bed6e4b0511db3e20921
76.
Silence re Judge Alex Kozinski's misconduct
Many are incredulous about Kavanaugh's allegation that he knew nothing of the many incidents of sexual misconduct of Judge Koznski, his boss.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/kavanaugh-denies-knowledge-of-alleged-sexual-misconduct-by-former-boss/
**
Please ask your friends living in states with 1 or 2 Republican senators to call 202 224 3121 to ask
for a no vote on Kavanaugh. Please call talkshows such as
CSpan's Washington Journal (7 to 10 am EST) 202 748 8002,]202 748 8001, 202 748 8000 depending on party affiliation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22iowa.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/22io...
Pacific Legal Foundation a bad group
the need to reform who can be amicus group
******************
Senator Schumer wrote
'“From the notorious Starr report, to the Florida recount, to the President’s secrecy and privilege claims, to post-9/11 legislative battles including the Victims Compensation Fund, to ideological judicial nomination fights, if there has been a partisan political fight that needed a very bright legal foot soldier in the last decade, Brett Kavanaugh was probably there.”
A stream of new informati on has come in in regards to Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaughs-unorthodox-path-to-tr...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/trump-top-picks-supreme-co…
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04judge.html
https://www.nytimes.com/…/bush-aide-on-court-nominees-faces…
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/6/28/appalling-judges-who-could-r...
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article214603005.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/born-inside-beltway-kavanaugh-part-o...
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/6/28/appalling-judges-who-could-r...
http://aclu.org
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.9b42fb2c5bcf
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/07/kavanaugh-on-net-neutrality-u-s-telecom-association-v-federal-communications-commission/
https://apnews.com/2a9d24cf6cc3444c905fdaaec5bc5f01/Kavanaugh's-support-for-surveilling-Americans-raises-concern
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Sens-spar-over-access-to-Kavanaugh-s-staff-13109560.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/us/politics/kavanaugh-white-house-documents-bush.html
**************
Please if you agree call 202 224 3121, the Senate and make your views known on talk shows, to friends, etc.
33714
For more information:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opinion...
Add Your Comments
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Donate
$75.00 donated
in the past month
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network