Yale law professor makes liberal's case for Kavanaugh

[brooklynite]

The Hill

A Yale Law School professor who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 is defending President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, calling the nomination Trump’s “finest hour, his classiest move.”

Akhil Reed Amar wrote in The New York Times op-ed, titled “A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh,” that “it is hard to name anyone with judicial credentials as strong as those of Judge Kavanaugh.”

“Several of Judge Kavanaugh’s most important ideas and arguments — such as his powerful defense of presidential authority to oversee federal bureaucrats and his skepticism about newfangled attacks on the property rights of criminal defendants — have found their way into Supreme Court opinions,” Amar wrote.

Amor, who said he had taught the nominee at Yale Law School, also praised Kavanaugh for “admirably confessing that some of the views he held 20 years ago as a young lawyer — including his crabbed understandings of the presidency when he was working for the Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth Starr — were erroneous."

[kozar]

1. Well, that didn't take long.

I would expect more of these types of "cases" to be made. The last paragraph is the giveaway IMO, show us the admirable confessions, please, Mr. Amor.

[Hortensis]

3. As you say. The Hill alone will be supplying plenty

of this.

Hope this comes back to bite this so-called "liberal" scoundrel. Intellectual ability is only part of what we need in a justice. We'd be far better off with a justice of mediocre intellect but very good character and judicial temperament than with a very clever one of bad character, which is apparently what we're getting.

No one of integrity would have worked with Ken Starr on the Whitewater investigation. Starr was a political hit man chosen for his lack of scruples to replace the previous investigator, who'd found nothing and was going to report that and close.

I'd also suggest that, given his position on investigations of presidents, his accepting the nomination with the clear understanding by everyone that Trump may use the court to try to obstruct justice is blatantly, shockingly unethical.

[gratuitous]

2. Gee, Newspaper of Record

Thanks again for another pointless column telling liberals to sit down and shut up. I will decline to hold my breath waiting for the next time the Times pays someone to write a column telling conservatives to get a grip and chill out over some nontroversy. Because the next time will be the first time.

[peekaloo]

4. It's an opinion piece.

and we all know the old line about opinions.

[OnDoutside]

5. Kavanaugh's current boss, Merrick Garland ? There's one and it wasn't hard. FFS