Ann Coulter: Kavanaugh Threatens The Left's Right to Cheat

Ann Coulter

The fact that the media responded to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by obsessively covering Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Russia and NATO proves that Trump has checkmated them with Brett Kavanaugh. 

"Liberals know they can't stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, so they'd just as soon not hear any news about it at all. Please cheer us up with stories about Paul Manafort's solitary confinement! 

"But there was one very peculiar reaction to the nomination. The nut wing of the Democratic Party instantly denounced Kavanaugh by claiming that his elevation to the high court would threaten all sorts of "rights."

"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., tweeted: "Our next justice should be a champion for protecting & advancing rights, not rolling them back -- but Kavanaugh has a long history of demonstrating hostility toward defending the rights of everyday Americans."

"Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted: "If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have a profoundly negative effect on workers' rights, women's rights and voting rights for decades to come. We must do everything we can to stop this nomination."

"If only these guys could get themselves elected to some sort of legislative body, they could pass laws protecting these rights!

"Wait, I'm sorry. These are elected United States senators. Of all people, why are they carrying on about "rights"? If senators can't protect these alleged "rights," it can only be because most Americans do not agree that they should be "rights."

"That's exactly why the left is so hysterical about the Supreme Court. They run to the courts to win their most unpopular policy ideas, gift-wrapped and handed to them as "constitutional rights."

"What liberals call "rights" are legislative proposals that they can't pass through normal democratic processes -- at least outside of the states they've already flipped with immigration, like California.

"Realizing how widely reviled their ideas are, several decades ago the left figured out a procedural scam to give them whatever they wanted without ever having to pass a law. Hey! You can't review a Supreme Court decision! " . . .

Coulter concludes:

So when you hear liberals carrying on about all the "rights" threatened by Kavanaugh, remember that by "rights," they mean "policy ideas so unpopular that we can't pass a law creating such rights."  

Lawsuit Aims To Remove Measure To Divide California Into Three States From Ballot

Weasel Zippers

"Democrats want to keep the plantation of dependency intact.

"Via Washington Times:

Opponents of an initiative to split California into three states asked the state Supreme Court to pull the measure from the ballot, arguing it’s too drastic a change to state government to go through the normal initiative process.   A lawsuit filed Monday by the Planning and Conservation League argues major changes to the state’s government structure require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature before going under consideration by voters or a state constitutional convention.                                   The initiative would break the state into Northern California, California and Southern California.Northern California would comprise the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Sacramento and counties north of the current state capital. California would be a strip of land along the coast stretching from Los Angeles to Monterey. Southern California would include Fresno and the surrounding farming communities, reaching all the way to San Diego and the Mexican border.Venture capitalist Tim Draper is financing the “Cal 3” initiative in his latest attempt to divide the state. He has spent more than $1.7 million supporting it. The nation’s most populous state has become too difficult to govern because of its size, wealth disparities and geographic diversity, Draper and the initiative’s supporters argue.Draper did not comment on the lawsuit because he had not seen it. A spokeswoman for the initiative also did not comment.The California Supreme Court has tossed initiatives in the past after ruling they went too far in changing government structure.

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Judge Kavanaugh against the leftists in Congress

Rich Terrell

Maybe the left should answer some questions instead of Kavanaugh

"Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, Senator Chuck Schumer, and others on the left are trying to trash President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in as many ways possible. One of their many lines of attack is that Trump knows that Kavanaugh will let Trump off on any potential legal problems, presumably from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

. . .  "I would then ask Schumer why Obama got off without being charged with any crimes, since we know he illegally spied on thousands, and illegally communicated with Hillary Clinton on a non-secure personal computer. Throughout Obama’s eight years, I didn’t see one ounce of concern about Obama getting off scot-free. I would also ask Democrats why the Justice Department under Obama considered Hillary to be above the law.

"I believe that Schumer, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Democrats should ask Kavanaugh if he believes that politicians from sanctuary cities and states should be held to account for refusing to abide by their oath of office to enforce the laws of the land.

"I do have some questions I believe Kavanaugh should be required to answer: Did he get his teaching gig at Harvard Law by pretending he was an Indian because of his grandma’s high cheekbones? . . . "

Naturally I would ask these questions in a pleasant, nice way. TD

Millions Dead, Constitution Destroyed, And Other Ridiculous Predictions About Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh  "Accountability: Even before President Trump announced his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, predictions of doom and gloom were rampant. They'll only get more dire as Brett Kavanaugh's nomination battle proceeds. Will anyone hold these people accountabl .for their unfounded, irresponsible, uninformed scaremongering claims?" . . .

The left reacts to Kavanaugh  . . . "On a serious note, if we had listened to the advice of the pious #nevertrumper crowd, who apparently are more worried about not being shunned from the Georgetown and Hamptons cocktail circuits than getting the policies enacted and the appointments made that they supposedly wanted, Hillary Clinton would have appointed her second justice last night, swinging the balance of the court from 5-4 conservative to 6-3 liberal. Think about that the next time you hear prominent #nevertrumpers like George Will, Jennifer Rubin, Bret Stephens, or David Brooks spouting off."

Donkey Hotey

Chuck Schumer’s Brazen Fable About Nominees and Supreme Court Precedents  . . . "In other words, Schumer (pictured, right) will demand that Kavanaugh commit, in advance, to deciding future cases as Democrats instruct him." . . .

Kavanaugh Visits Capitol Hill as Durbin Predicts 'Wild West D.C.' If Confirmed  These Democrats are not nice people who mean well. TD


The Nomination of [FILL IN THE BLANK] to the Supreme Court Means [REALLY BAD THINGS]
. . . "Did you know that [FILL IN THE BLANK] believes women should be treated as second-class citizens by denying them access to [LIBERAL AGENDA ITEM]? Did you know that [HE/SHE] doesn't agree that [OPINION ALL MY FRIENDS EXPRESS, WHICH I HAVEN'T REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT, BUT I'D BETTER GO ALONG WITH IT OR THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE ME ANYMORE]? I mean... really? It makes you nostalgic for the good old days of [PREVIOUS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, WHO I ALSO CALLED "HITLER" ALL THE TIME], doesn't it?" . . .

SCOTUS Protests Are as Salty and Ridiculous as We'd Hoped . . . "The Women's March was so excited to get their objections to the pick out there that they released what looks like Mad Libs made in a Bellevue psyche ward as a press release. They didn't even bother filling in Kavanaugh's name, but left in "XX" in their haste. In the second paragraph they remembered to fill in a name, but didn't bother to look up how it was spelled, proving they have no idea who this nominee is and they don't care, either. Trump nominated him so he must be bad." . . .

Noisy Room

Jeffrey Toobin’s Clueless Supreme Court Meltdowns Should Embarrass CNN

Jeffrey Toobin

✔@JeffreyToobin

See the new @USSupremeCourt clearly: Abortion illegal; doctors prosecuted; gay people barred from restaurants, hotels, stores; African-Americans out of elite schools; gun control banned in 50 states; the end of regulatory state. My @NewYorker column.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/how-trumps-supreme-court-pick-could-undo-kennedys-legacy …

1:49 PM - Jul 1, 2018

Tony Branco

People will die!

Can Kavanaugh Be Trusted on Obamacare?

The American Spectator

"A much-debated 2011 opinion suggests that he can."

"Even before President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, political henchmen and media hacks began rummaging through his record like so many rats in a ripe dumpster. Their sojourn in the slime revealed nothing more sinister than a conscientious jurist who has actually read the Constitution. To their dismay, his most notable opinion as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals suggests that he’ll vote to strike down Obamacare’s individual mandate, as well as its guaranteed issue and community rating provisions, when Texas v. United States makes its way to SCOTUS.

"Texas v. United States is, of course, the latest challenge to Obamacare’s constitutionality. It was filed by Texas and nineteen additional states not long after Congress reduced the “tax penalty” associated with the health care law’s individual mandate to zero. In 2012 Chief Justice Roberts ruled, in NFIB v. Sebelius, that the individual mandate was constitutional because it was essentially a tax collected by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for purposes of raising revenue for the government. The plaintiffs argue that the elimination of the tax penalty by Congress last year rendered the Roberts ruling both “irrational” and “legally impossible.”

"The case is currently being argued in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas before Judge Reed O’Connor, who is almost certainly going to rule in favor of the plaintiffs. After going through the usual tedious appeals process, it will inevitably end up before SCOTUS. And this is where some conservatives worry about Kavanaugh. Why? " . . .

Consequently, the only question left for SCOTUS to decide, when Texas v. United States arrives on its doorstep, is what possible rationale can be used to uphold the individual mandate? The Court has already rejected the Commerce Clause argument. The Republican Congress eliminated the tax effective January 1. Thus, because Judge Kavanaugh is an originalist, he will look to the Constitution for some other legitimate reason to uphold the mandate. He will, of course, come up dry. And that’s why Brett Kavanaugh can be trusted on Obamacare.

Democrats Don’t Know Anything About Judge Kavanaugh, They Just Know They Don’t Like Him

Legal Insurrection  

"Monday night, Trump announced his second Supreme Court Justice nominee, setting the left’s dumpster of irrational fears ablaze.

"The meltdowns began with Justice Kennedy’s retirement announcement when Democrats and their media outlets began declaring the end of civilization and the beginning of Handmaid’s Tale Armageddon.

"The White House was especially tight-lipped about Trump’s decision to nominate Judge Kavanaugh to the bench. But Democrats (at least lost with the loudest national platforms) aren’t concerned about Kavanaugh’s record or judicial philosophy, they just know they don’t like him or anyone else on Trump’s shortlist." . . .

Alex Pappas

✔@AlexPappas

When you pre-write your press release slamming Trump’s SCOTUS pick but forget to add the name....