{"id":380292,"date":"2018-10-09T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/casualty-lists-from-the-kavanaugh-battle-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:05:28","slug":"casualty-lists-from-the-kavanaugh-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/casualty-lists-from-the-kavanaugh-battle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualty Lists From the Kavanaugh Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court seems secure for constitutionalism \u2014 perhaps for decades.<\/p>\n

The shrieks from the gallery of the Senate chamber as the vote came in on Saturday, and the sight of that bawling mob clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court as the new justice took his oath, confirm it.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party has sustained a historic defeat.<\/p>\n

And the triumph is President Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n

To unite the party whose nomination he had won, Donald Trump pledged to select his high court nominees from lists prepared by such judicial conservatives as the Federalist Society. He kept his word and, in the battle for Kavanaugh, he led from the front, even mocking the credibility of the primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
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Trump has achieved what every GOP president has hoped to do since the summer of \u201968, when a small group of GOP senators, led by Bob Griffin of Michigan, frustrated and then foiled a LBJ-Earl Warren plot to elevate LBJ crony Abe Fortas to chief justice in order to keep a future President Nixon from naming Warren\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n

Sharing the honors with Trump is Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n

Throughout 2016, McConnell took heat for refusing to hold a hearing on Barack Obama\u2019s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, to fill the chair of Justice Antonin Scalia, who had died earlier that year.<\/p>\n

In 2017, McConnell used Harry Reid\u2019s \u201cnuclear option\u201d to end filibusters for Supreme Court nominations, and then got Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed 54-45.<\/p>\n

Last week, in one of the closest and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Pat Buchanan After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court seems secure for constitutionalism \u2014 perhaps for decades. The shrieks from the gallery of the Senate chamber as the vote came in on Saturday, and the sight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380292","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\/380292","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}