Whether
it’s Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 or U.S. Department of Justice
v. Ferguson, Missouri in 2016, the judicial system has been a
double-edged sword for descendants of Africa. This goes for all
levels of the courts and its subsidiaries, but the impact of the U.S.
Supreme Court is so powerful, it’s frightening.
That
brings me to who gets to hold such power for a lifetime: U.S. Supreme
Court justices. The only job for a life time should be parenting.
A
couple of weeks ago, Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate nomination looked
like smooth sailing. Now the nomination process is looking like a
perfect storm. The delay could mean that Kavanaugh will not be
approved by the October 1 new session of the High Court. If the
nomination is not sewed up by the mid-term elections, the outcome
could be very different should Democrats win back the Senate.
Within
the last week, two women have come forward from Kavanaugh’s
past to accused him of sexual assault. Christine Blasey Ford is
scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deborah
Ramirez, a Yale alum who has some interesting stories of her college
encounters with Brett, is weighing her prospects. And Michael
Avenatti, now famous as adult porn star Stormy Daniels’
attorney, claims to have a third woman waiting in the wings.
The
votes for a Kavanaugh slam-dunk aren’t solid. Some Republicans,
like Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, are hedging based upon the new
incriminating information.
Attempts
to get to the buffet of legal opinions and emails from Kavanaugh's
career is apparently like trying to steal gold bars from Fort Knox.
The public needs to see this nominee’s actions and views when
he served as a federal judge, White House attorney and assistant to
the prosecutor who investigated President Clinton. The White House
has withheld over 100,000 pages from the Judiciary Committee. We
don’t have to totally speculate the reasons why.
It’s
already been documented that Kavanaugh has lied under oath at least
five times in past and current Congressional proceedings. He’s
probably got a lot to lie about and much more to hide. That’s
why a million pages of documents has been assembled—a record
for a judicial nominee.
As
your Grandma says “If you lie, you ‘ll steal. If you
steal, you’ll…” You know the rest. All Grandma was
saying is that it’s all about character and what you do when no
one is looking.
Brett
Kavanaugh’s track record speaks volumes as to why trump
nominated him. Kavanaugh will use the highest court in the land to
carry out trump’s racist, misogynistic, militaristic agenda.
This is a Supreme Court nominee who questioned the release of the
Watergate tapes which proved President Nixon was a corrupt criminal.
Given
the fact that many of trump’s running dogs have already been
indicted by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and the investigation
is getting closer to Trump, this is information worth illuminating
and a predictor of rulings. Kavanaugh would be expected to protect
trump should this corrupt and evil dictator be brought up on criminal
charges.
Kavanaugh
will not be a passive judicial participant. He will be aggressive and
focused, deliberately crushing any viable liberty that he can. Like
trump, he’s extremely dangerous to all living things that are
not white, male and rich.
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