What Most Disqualifies Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court?

[Donkees]

By Adam Gopnik October 4, 2018

Excerpt:

He became disqualified for the Supreme Court the moment that he accepted the offer from Donald Trump. At this stage in his Presidency, Trump, already described in reports from his own aides as unfit for the office, implicated by his former lawyer as an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony, and now alleged, according to the Times, to have benefitted from tax schemes that in some instances amounted to “outright fraud”—not to mention being a liar and a con artist—should not be allowed to appoint Justices for lifetime appointments.

Whatever the effect of this truth on vote-counting congressional Realpolitik, it is the moral ground upon which all subsequent argument has to begin. Trump’s purpose in appointing Kavanaugh to the Court was clearly to provide himself with a protective vote for whenever one issue or another arising from his misbehavior makes its way there. Kavanaugh’s convenient late-arriving conviction that Presidents should be protected from investigation—late arriving since he evidently felt very differently when he was pursuing Bill Clinton—is catnip to Trump. And anyone who had illusions about Kavanaugh not being an acolyte of Trumpism should have been disabused by his partisan performance last week, in which he made it quite apparent. That’s the deal. That’s the trick. Everything else is simulation and dissimulation. Everything else is misdirection.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-most-disqualifies-brett-kavanaugh-for-the-supreme-court

[beachbum bob]

1. perjury

[shraby]

2. I agree. He's dishonest.

[OhNo-Really]

3. Multiple, even a history of perjury coupled with his disdainful, paranoid, partisan statements

[flor-de-jasmim]

4. Perjury + Demeanor

[BeckyDem]

5. He is a liar and a bum federalist thinking deregulating extremist.

He is no damn good.

[Dulcinea]

6. He can be compromised.

It's clear he has a drinking problem. He behaves like every alcoholic I've ever seen, & I've seen a few. He may have a gambling problem, too. He may be a serial sexual assaulter. He needs to learn to take NO for an answer. Need I say more?

[WestMichRad]

7. Perjury

Disgusting behavior (sexual aggression) probably should be grounds for disqualification too, but despite all the allegations, this is still unproven as the majority party has effectively obstructed a thorough investigation.

Having reprehensible legal views, as disgusting as that is, is not an automatic disqualifier.

[SharonAnn]

8. Lack of judicial temperament. It's obvious.

[TruckFump]

9. Black out drunk. EOM