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AK: After meeting with Kavanaugh, Sullivan pledges to support Supreme Court confirmation
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After an hour-long meeting with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, announced plans to support Kavanaugh in the confirmation process.
"He is someone who will interpret the law and Constitution as written, he holds a healthy skepticism regarding the expansive power of federal agencies, he is a strong protector of the Second Amendment, and he has the values, temperament and humility I believe Alaskans will value on the Supreme Court," Sullivan said in a statement Thursday afternoon. |
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PHORTO
(7/13/2018)
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Collins & Murkowsie + Roe v. Wade?
Kavanaugh has proved that he follows originalist principle and arrives at conclusions unmitigated by any preferred outcome.
His Obamacare opinion was based upon a central tenet of common law - that there can be no colorable legal action without specific harm already having been done. At that time, no such case was before the court. He argued that the court therefore had no jurisdiction to act. As troubling as some may find that, I see it as a plus.
That's what a jurist is supposed to do. That is what an originalist does. And with 300 opinions under his belt arrived at via the originalist method, the assumption that he is judicially predisposed to either preserving or overturning Roe is absurd. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(7/13/2018)
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Phorto, I suspect you're right about how Kavanaugh decided the Obamacare decision based on lack of hurt at the time.......
....but BOY, could I supply a BUTTLOAD of evidence for him to churn over! |
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