Trump SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh Has Big Government Biases
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
TheNewAmerican.com
Saturday, 14 July 2018
Despite promises to “drain the swamp” once he arrived in the White House, President Donald Trump’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court bench is very at home in the marshy morass.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh (shown) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is President Trump’s second Supreme Court appointee, and there are many who worry that Kavanaugh’s record reveals a Deep State denizen rather than a constitutional strict constructionist — the sort that would restore federalism, freedom of conscience, and the free market.
Kavanaugh’s Big Government bona fides are impressive. Writing for the Mises Institute, Tho Bishop reminds readers that Kavanaugh has “a particular closeness with the Bush family. Having worked on matters including the Clinton Impeachment, the 2000 Florida Recount, and challenges to Obamacare.”
What’s this about ObamaCare? Is Bishop suggesting that President Trump tapped a judge to sit on the highest federal bench that believes (and has issued opinions) that Obamacare is constitutional?
Yep.
Here’s a summary of Judge Kavanaugh’s take on Obamacare, written by Christopher Jacobs of The Federalist:
In Kavanaugh’s view, the mandate could fit “comfortably within Congress’ constitutional powers,” Even as he ‘do[es] not take a position here on whether the statute as currently written is justifiable,’ Kavanaugh concludes that ‘the only potential Taxing Clause shortcoming in the current individual mandate provision appears to be relatively slight.
Read that again, America: Brett Kavanaugh, the man Donald Trump wants to appoint to the Supreme Court, wrote in a judicial holding that the constitutional shortcomings of the individual mandate of Obamacare are “relatively slight.”
With statements such as that, it seems the chances that Brett Kavanaugh will be draining the swamp are “relatively slight,” too.
Many Americans committed to the Constitution value the opinion of Judge Andrew Napolitano. Napolitano has proven himself to be a fearless, full-throated advocate of the Constitution as ratified by the states.
During an appearance on Fox and Friends on July 10, Napolitano put a pretty fine point on the pro-Establishment résumé of Judge Kavanaugh.
“The Washington establishment, sometimes known as the swamp, wanted Judge Kavanaugh,” said Napolitano. “I am disappointed in the president because this is not the type of person he said he would pick. Justice [Neil] Gorsuch was. This person is at the heart and soul of the D.C. establishment against whom the president railed.” (See video below.)
Curt Mills of the American Conservative reckons that Kavanaugh’s nomination was a calculated move by the president, describing the judge as “impressive, confirmable, acceptable to his Breitbart base, deeply respected by the conservative political establishment in Washington.”
Again with the desire to appease the “political establishment.”
If you’re ready to forgive Kavanaugh’s pass on socialized medicine, you might not want to read the next paragraph.
Kavanaugh’s record of judicial opinions in the area of government surveillance reveal him to be pro-Big Brother, too.
In 2015, the D.C. Circuit Court refused to take appeal of a case challenging the federal government’s collection of metadata without a warrant, an act which is overtly unconstitutional as it violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against such searches and seizures.
The Rest…HERE
