By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – July 17, 2018 1) Right to Left. The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, John...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – July 17, 2018 1) Right to Left. The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, John...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – July 11, 2018 Soon we can expect another contentious battle in the Senate over a Supreme Court nominee. For the last few decades, in all such battles, there has been one issue (spoken or unspoken) underlying so much of the fierce fighting: abortion. Abortion is the Holy Grail to the American left. It dominates...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – July 6, 2018 To hear some on the left tell it, you would think that America is finished as a nation with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. One such person tweeted: “Literally in tears. Haven’t felt this hopeless in a long time. With Justice Kennedy leaving, we now have two options...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – July 12, 2018 If Alexander Hamilton had been nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court today, Democrats would likely oppose him. About the court, Hamilton said: “[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to...

By: Matthew Glowicki – courier-journal.com – July 10, 2018 He’s up for a seat on our highest court. Here’s what you need to know about Brett Kavanaugh. USA TODAY Years before he worked in the chambers of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh in Washington, D.C., Justin Walker sat in his classroom. Walker, now an assistant law professor at...

By: Brad Dacus – pacificjustice.org – July 9, 2018 President Trump on Monday night made his highly-anticipated announcement of his choice to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. President Trump has selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The announcement is sure to ignite a firestorm in an already hotly-contested confirmation...

By Kelly Shackleford – FoxNews.com – July 10, 2018 President Trump’s announcement of Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States is directly in line with the president’s record thus far of selecting nominees who have demonstrated strict adherence to the Constitution. While campaigning for president, Donald Trump promised the...

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – July 11, 2018 The modern confirmation process for the Supreme Court is full of rules: the “Ginsburg Rule,” the “Biden Rule,” the “Reid Rule ” and the “McConnell Rule.” Often their definitions and their relevance are hotly contested. What isn’t contested is that the court itself has a widely recognized and easily understood rule:...

By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – July 11, 2018 With Kavanaugh, we’re likely to get careful, narrowly tailored decisions, not earth-shattering transformation. Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the political Left and the triumphalist trumpeting from the political Right regarding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, one question has gone missing: What, exactly, will...