The Realm of the Extremist Right

I convey my fervent hope that senators vote a decided no on the Kavenaugh SCOTUS nomination.  I ask those who oppose it as I do to contact their senators by phone and/or email.  If you know others in other states especially red ones please ask them to contact their senators as well.  For a number of reasons I oppose the nomination.  I quote a letter to the editor by a Susan Gibbs whom I thought best stated some of my beliefs.  She said:

"It is imperative that we have an independent judiciary. President Donald Trump has hand-picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court to do his bidding. Judge Kavanaugh is ready to change settled law, change the Constitution and take away rights we all enjoy among them health care. Millions will be denied it and ultimately die.  Moreover, he does not believe that charges can be brought against a sitting president. He will help Trump escape prosecution and consolidate power.

Judge Kavanaugh will not protect our clean air and water and will vote consistently with big corporations. He will take away women's rights, worker's rights, immigrant rights, consumers rights, LGBTQ rights and many more. He will sway the court in President Trump's favor if he is charged with multiple crimes against the American people. Senators should oppose this nomination."

I thought this letter summed up my reasons in opposition to Judge Kavenaugh's appointment to SCOTUS perfectly.  There are more reasons that make the affirmation of Judge Kavenaugh more than troubling and mendaciously suspicious.  He had a very hard time answering yes or no as to whether he spoke with a law firm attorney Kasowitz who is defending Donald Trump.  During his first day in the confirmation process he garbled his way through a non-answer answer.  It was not clear.  In his second day of sworn testimony he answered a definite no.  I suspect that he was lying as he had during the Bush administration when an email was found to prove he lied in his response to an issue of Democratic email stealing.  Perhaps if not confirmed for SCOTUS he could be impeached as a justice on the US Court of Appeals for perjury. 

Furthermore, as we know thousands of pages of Judge Kavenaugh's opinions have been withheld.  Thousands more given to Democrats with little time to review them.  The most problematic for me is that I suspect Judge Kavenaugh will rubber stamp the Trump administration's roll back of environmental pollution rules and the denial of science reported climate change.  It is no secret that many across our flood water choked nation are losing their homes and livelihoods due to climate change.  Yet another potential Category 4 hurricane is due to strike our North Carolina coast.  Our once pristine waters now are becoming again polluted because of the rollback of necessary environmental laws.  For these reasons it should be enough to vote a decided NO on Judge Kavenaugh's confirmation. 

In addition, however, Judge Kavenaugh was not on the original list Donald Trump was given.  Judge Kavenaugh was added, I must submit, because he was one who could be trusted to affirm presidential power and be a get-out-of-jail-free card for Donald Trump.  A reactionary turn to right wing extremist powers of hate, science denial, voter suppression and corporate elevation now are in a position to completely control the face of American power in a Republican attempt to control yet another branch of a division of powers government, the Supreme Court.  As President Obama said: How hard can it be to say that Nazis are bad?  Very hard if they are now a part of the so called Republican base.  Yet another reason to vote a resounding no on Judge Kavenaugh before our nation moves into another realm of the extreme right.   SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE.