SCOTUS Brief Thursday, July 26, 2018
Keep up with top conservative & legal experts on Twitter:
@SCOTUSBrief
@JCNSeverino
@GayleTrotter
@EdWhelanEPPC
@JudicialNetwork
@confirmkav
Please visit: http://confirmkavanaugh.com for the latest news and information on Brett Kavanaugh.
Here’s the news you need to know, on this Thursday, July 26, 2018.
1.The New York Times and Associated Press target Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s wife with records requests
The New York Times and Associated Press both filed requests under the Maryland Public Information Act (PIA) seeking e-mails that Ashley Kavanaugh, the wife of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, sent as town manager of The Village of Chevy Chase Section 5, according to documents obtained by America Rising Squared (AR2) and shared exclusively with the NTK Network.
2. From the National Review: Senator Schumer’s Delusory Document Demand
As Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley detailed in an excellent Senate floor speech yesterday, he expects that his committee will “receive up to one million pages of documents from Judge Kavanaugh’s time in the White House Counsel’s Office and the Office of the Independent Counsel.” This, of course, is on top of the most probative evidence of Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice: the “307 opinions he authored in 12 years as a D.C. Circuit judge, the hundreds more opinions he joined, and the 6,168 pages of material he submitted as part of his Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/schumers-delusory-document-demand/
3. What could Judge Kavanaugh’s previous hearings tell us about his judicial philosophy
Kavanaugh not only embraced judicial restraint, but he was candid about the impact of judicial activism. He stated, for example, that “some of the worst moments in the Supreme Court’s history have been moments of judicial activism, like the Dred Scott case, like the Lochner case, where the court went outside its proper bounds, in my judgment, in interpreting clauses of the Constitution to impose its own policy views and to supplant the proper role of the legislative branch.”
4. Religious liberty expert: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a long record of defending religious liberty
Religious liberty is the foundation of all liberty. The Founding Fathers placed it first in the Bill of Rights because they knew its primary importance. If government can be allowed to force its way in between a man and his God, there is no limit to government authority and no bulwark against tyranny. Kavanaugh understands these principles and will dedicate his time on our nation’s highest court to faithfully defend them.
4. Democrats are having a hard time tanking Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination
They can’t block the nominee on their own, but they’re under intense pressure from liberals to wage a full-scale attack against Kavanaugh as they try to sway the one or two Republicans needed to sink President Trump’s pick and score a major victory heading into the midterm elections.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398704-dems-struggle-on-kavanaugh
6. Senator Hatch urged his Twitter followers to read JCN’s Carrie Severino’s latest Bench Memo
https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1021585803833692160
7. West Virginia state senator: Kavanaugh’s nomination is part of Trump’s dedication to America’s comebackIn this nominee, President Trump has found the type of Supreme Court Justice he promised. Judge Kavanaugh has spent more than 25 years of his life in public service to the American people. He is deeply respected by both his peers on appellate courts and the Supreme Court. He has shown respect for Americans who feel threatened by government overreach. But, most importantly, he has demonstrated a sincere commitment to upholding the Constitution, faithfully applying the law as written, and not attempting to legislate from the bench.
