The Kavanaugh Accusations

Currently the nation has erupted into a debate over the guilt or innocence of Judge Kavanaugh. The judge has been accused of groping a 15-year-old when he was 17 and having exposed himself to a fellow student when he was in college. Despite there being no witnesses, the left has already decided that this makes Kavanaugh unfit for the Supreme Court. (Note - one woman claimed that "everyone in the school knew about the first accusation" but later admitted that she had no idea if the incident she was remembering involved Kavanaugh or his accuser.)

While I'm sure that people across the country are in an actual fury over the accusations, I also think that it is a manufactured fury modeled on the confirmation hearing for Justice Clarence Thomas. Kavanaugh had already passed the judiciary committee and was on his way to confirmation. The worst anyone could pin on him was  doctored response that implied that he didn't understand the difference between birth control and abortion. Then Senator Feinstein let it out that she'd been sitting on an anonymous letter accusing Kavanaugh of some sort of sexual assault decades ago.

Let's be honest, the reaction of the left was "Hot damn, we've got him now!"

They've already shown that they don't really care about assaults against women by politicians. They said so about Bill Clinton. Look at the collective yawn about the allegations against Keith Ellison. These are much more credible - there are police and medical reports and they happened recently. But no one cares. There are also allegations about Cory Booker who, ironically, is one of the senators interrogating Judge Kavanaugh.

If they really thought these claims were credible then Senator Feinstein would have released them well before the hearings. Instead she held the letter as a last-ditch effort to stop Kavanaugh.

The point of all of this is not to determine if Judge Kavanaugh is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. It is to keep the court from having a conservative majority. If Kavanaugh's name is withdrawn then something will be found to disqualify his successor. The idea is to stall the confirmations in the hope of a Democrat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do get a majority then we can expect that they will refuse to confirm any candidates that President Trump names. This will be ironic after all of the complaints over the Republicans refusing to confirm President Obama's lame duck appointment. But they'll do it because this has always been about power.

Decades ago the Democrats decided that it was easier to go around the legislatures and the messy business of amending the Constitution and take their case to the courts. Roe V. Wade is the most prominent of these cases but there have been a slew of them. And the #Resistance has mainly been fought out in the courts with judges preempting executive orders. Eventually these will filter their way to the Supreme Court and the Democrats want to be sure that the cases are ruled in their favor, or result in a tie which will allow the lower-court rulings to stand.

Because the courts have become so important to the left, confirmations have gone from fairly routine to a circus. They are fighting tooth and nail to preserve their alternative to democracy. If it means elevating a story (with no evidence) of an unwanted groping into an attempted rape, they are only too glad to do this. After all, it's only a conservative's life they are ruining. He should be ashamed to even exist (which is what a protestor recently yelled at Senator Cruze while driving him out of a restaurant).