{"id":379207,"date":"2018-10-01T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:50:17","slug":"kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh Is The Wrong Nominee For Our Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times\/stop-kavanaugh-protest-e1538323888540\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84970\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/stop-kavanaugh-protest-e1538333667282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Demonstrators protest outside of Supreme Court after Judge Brett Kavanaugh was chosen by President Trump as his nominee for the high court. From FOX 45 DC twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Kavanaugh confirmation process has been a missed opportunity for the United States to face up to many urgent issues on which the bi-partisans in Washington, DC are united and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/judge-kavanaugh-forrest-gump-of-republican-politics\/\">career as a Republican legal operative<\/a> and judge supporting the power of corporations, the security state and abusive foreign policy should have been put on trial. The hearings could have provided an opportunity to confront the security state, use of torture, mass spying and the domination of money in politics and oligarchy as he has had an important role in each of these.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh\u2019s behavior as a teenager who likely drank too much and was inappropriately aggressive and abusive with women, perhaps even attempting rape, must also be confronted. In an era where patriarchy and mistreatment of women are being challenged, Kavanaugh is the wrong nominee for this important time. However, sexual assault should not be a distraction that keeps the\u00a0the public\u2019s focus off other issues raised by his career as a conservative political activist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times\/protest-aganst-kavanaugh-senator-be-a-hero-ny-times-e1538324387410\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84971\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/protest-aganst-kavanaugh-senator-be-a-hero-ny-times-e1538333904746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>A demonstration against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh outside the Capitol this month. Credit Erin Schaff for <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Security State, Mass Spying and Torture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A central issue of our era is the US security state \u2014 mass spying on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-is-the-wrong-nominee-for-our-times\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators protest outside of Supreme Court after Judge Brett Kavanaugh was chosen by President Trump as his nominee for the high court. From FOX 45 DC twitter. The Kavanaugh confirmation process has been a missed opportunity for the United States to face up to many urgent issues on which the bi-partisans in Washington, DC are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}