After two days of Senate Democrats attempting to turn the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh into a complete circus, editorial boards and media outlets across the country called out the Democrats’ desperate theatrics coordinated by Chuck Schumer to obstruct the hearings.
Editorials noted that the dramatic hysterics of Democrats revealed the lack of substantive attacks against the qualified nominee and accomplished nothing but slowing his inevitable confirmation while making a no-win situation even worse for red state Democrats.
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Axios: The Kavanaugh Headache For Red-State Dems
The red-state Democrats who are up for re-election in November are in a no-win situation over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination — and Tuesday’s protests at his confirmation hearing didn’t help. Why it matters: The progressive base is demanding that Democratic senators vote no on Kavanaugh. But Republicans say support for his nomination is highest in four Trump states with Democratic senators: Montana, West Virginia, North Dakota and Missouri. READ
Washington Examiner: Democrats Can’t Stop Brett Kavanaugh, And Their Hysterics Show It
In this current Trump reality, many feel as if their hands are tied. Of all the players involved, none feel the pain of inability to effect change so acutely as the Democratic Party. The collective performance of opposition members on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings was one for the record books. But instead of taking a legitimate stand against the nominee, their deliberate and continued calls for adjournment were nothing but last-ditch attempts from a group resigned to a future failure. They know they can do nothing. On Tuesday, Democrats spent a total of 80 minutes before the hearing’s official start trying to stall the proceedings. READ
Fox News: Kavanaugh Chaos: The Hearing That Was Congress At Its Worst
So the Democrats, as a minority, are really only able to accomplish two things: Play to their base in aggressively opposing the nomination and perhaps slow down the show. They simply lack the power to do anything else. So it was that Kamala Harris, with an eye on 2020, immediately demanded that Chairman Chuck Grassley adjourn the Judiciary Committee hearing. READ
Boston Herald: Unhinged Liberals’ Havoc At Brett Kavanaugh Hearings A Supreme Waste
A wild circus act that included liberal activists and their ilk rudely interrupting Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings with wild outbursts, screaming and other unruly behavior, resulting in constant delays and at least 70 arrests. And that was just Day 1 of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. Sadly for our democracy, it wasn’t just uncivilized spectators disrupting the constitutionally enshrined proceedings. READ
The New York Post: Senate Supreme Court Hearings Have Become A Pathetic Farce
Kavanaugh’s extensive record — hundreds of opinions, journal articles and so on — are more than enough for senators to make up their minds about how to vote. (And he’s happy to sit down for a chat with any who even pretend to remain unsure.) Most Democrats already have decided to oppose him. And they’re the ones demanding more documents from his years as a White House functionary — purely in hopes that somewhere they can find something that will look bad enough to prompt some nervous Republican senator to bolt. This is what Supreme Court confirmations have come to: a purely partisan exercise, with only a few senators at “risk” of voting across party lines. READ
Washington Times: As Democrats flail, Kavanaugh sailing to court
Presidential aspirants were all preening for the cameras. Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat, tried nearly every quarter-hour to delay the hearing on the first day. Meanwhile he disgracefully sent out a fundraising appeal during the hearing — while seated on the dais. We all can see where his priorities are. Fellow Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a former chairman of the committee, spent nearly the entire 30 minutes of his opening round talking about his own emails from 2001-2003, trying and failing to prove Judge Kavanaugh knew anything about an email breach at the time. Mr. Leahy showed how incredibly out of touch he is by making his emails the issue — rather than literally any other issue that Vermonters care about regarding a Supreme Court nominee. READ
Washington Examiner: The Supreme Court’s Days As A Super-Legislature Are Over, And Democrats Aren’t Happy About It
Democrats are upset about where the Supreme Court has been heading not because it isn’t doing its job, and not because it is overly partisan, but because they don’t like the fact that cases going there are increasingly being decided based on the Constitution and the law and not on motivated reasoning in search of liberals’ pet causes. READ
Fox News: Kavanaugh shows why he’d be a great Supreme Court justice –too bad Dems are all about demonization
Democratic senators repeatedly interrupted the Judiciary Committee chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, when he delivered his mild opening statement, The Democrats unreasonably demanded a delay over the late release of thousands of pages of documents by the White House. This was an obvious stalling tactic without justification. Such delaying tactics, however, reveal a Democratic Senate minority that has little stomach for conducting a responsible debate over the future of the Supreme Court. In fact, if the issue at hand was simply Kavanaugh’s qualifications to sit on the high court he should win the approval of every senator, regardless of party. READ
Wall Street Journal: Dianne, Get Your Gun
The Feinstein-Kavanaugh exchange neatly summarizes the stakes in modern judicial interpretation. Liberals want to use a balancing test that would gut Heller of practical meaning even if they don’t formally reverse it. Judge Kavanaugh would follow the originalist “common use” standard that would make regulation harder, though not impossible, to justify. Liberals are all too happy to overturn Supreme Court precedents they don’t like. READ