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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders on Trump's SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Are You Ready For A Fight!
Published on Jul 9, 2018
President Trumps Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be a rubber-stamp for an extreme, right-wing agenda pushed by corporations and billionaires. The coming Senate debate over the replacement of retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is about the future of Roe v. Wade, campaign finance reform, voting rights, workers' rights, health care, climate change, environmental protection and gun safety.
Brett Kavanaugh, contrary to 200 years of Supreme Court precedent, believes a president 'may decline to enforce a statute . . . when the president deems the statute unconstitutional.' He ruled against a migrant teenager seeking to be released from custody in order to obtain an abortion. He believes a president can only be indicted after he leaves office and should not be subjected to civil suits while in office. He ruled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional. And he would not uphold the Affordable Care Acts contraception mandate.
I do not believe a person with those views should be given a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court. We must mobilize the American people to defeat Trumps right-wing, reactionary nominee.
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Bernie Sanders on Trump's SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Are You Ready For A Fight! (Original Post)
Donkees
Jul 2018
OP
"We must mobilize the American people to defeat Trump's right-wing, reactionary nominee."
Tarc
Jul 2018
#4
My thoughts exactly. So much could have been done during the 2016 GE campaign....
George II
Jul 2018
#6
3Hotdogs
(12,210 posts)1. That's why I will vote for Bernie in my state's '20 primary.
For the second time!
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)3. I remember writing letters and calling senators opposing
Kavanaugh when Bush put him.on the Appeals Court.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)4. "We must mobilize the American people to defeat Trump's right-wing, reactionary nominee."
2 years too late, Bernie.
George II
(67,782 posts)6. My thoughts exactly. So much could have been done during the 2016 GE campaign....
....to prevent where we are today.
Maven
(10,533 posts)7. LOL, this fuckin' guy. nt