The Federal Courts have Become Political | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This post by Diane Rufino is formulated from a couple of comments by Diane on a post by Bobby Tony regarding the machinations of the Supreme Court nominating process hijacked by the core Democrat Circus.

    The federal courts have become political, rather apolitical, which is what they were intended to be. Contract law governs the role of a judge when it comes to the interpretation of the Constitution; the document is interpreted according to its plain words, the meaning of those words at the time they were written and agreed upon, and any contemporaneous documents or writings that help explain its meaning and intent.

    The contemporaneous documents that might be included in a judge's exercise of interpretation include The Federalist Papers (because they were written to explain the Constitution and because they were written, in large part, by James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution and Alexander Hamilton, who also attended the Convention in 1787, they were assurances given to the States on which they relied in their ratifying conventions) and any debates in the Ratifying Conventions (because those "understandings" became part of the "meeting of the minds" on which the States agreed to adopt the Constitution). There is NO role of a federal judge to interpret the Constitution applying modern values or norms or to interpret it through the lens of a political agenda. And so, you are right that Confirmation Hearings have become a political circus. The Democrats want nothing more than to get promises from Kavanaugh that he will use his position as a Supreme Court justice to further their agenda to get rid of President Trump. They seek nothing more than to co-opt a single seat on the bench of the highest court in the land to undo the 2016 election - the legal and constitutional election by the people. The Democrats, in every public hearing, in every instance before a microphone, in every interview, with every national crisis, and with every act of presidential power taken by President Trump, use the occasion to condemn, criticize, mock, and humiliate him... to misconstrue his actions, to accuse him of acting erratically, and to call for his impeachment.

    They are a bunch of low-lives who hold no moral ground to accuse anyone of being imperfect. How dare they impugn the character of someone like Brett Kavanaugh when they are, collectively, nothing more than a bunch of tax cheats, law-breakers, criminal solicitors, race baitors, hustlers, sexual predators, and constitutional illiterates. Senator Lindsey Graham said it best at the Hearing when he told Democrats (paraphrasing) - "You're never going to vote for him, so why go thru all this and destroy his character and make a mockery of his hearing, in front of his wife and children? Just vote NO, like you intended to." If Democrats are going to turn every confirmation of a Republican candidate into a public lynching (a term used by Clarence Thomas in his hearing), then I agree - keep the deplorable circus out of the eyes and ears of the American people. No one needs to be reminded of how low and vile and despicable and unconscionable and dishonest and uncivil our Democratic lawmakers have become. Thanks for addressing this topic. I found the hearings to be absolutely sickening. Now, more than ever, I believe Democrats to be the enemy of our country and nothing more than parasites and a disease (a plague) on our good and honorable nation.

    Oh, and let's not forget WHY Democrats continue to follow their new playbook - Spread lies and make up allegations of sexual harassment.... Because it works. The politics of PERSONAL DESTRUCTION is something the Democrats have become good at. The politics of spreading lies and instilling fear (including a return to Jim Crow) is something Democrats are good at. Look what it did to Judge Roy Moore. (You don't hear anything any more about his accuser). Look what happened to Mitt Romney in 2012 when he ran for president. During that election, Harry Reid accused Mitt Romney, FALSELY, of not paying his taxes in over 10 years. He knew it wasn't true. After the election, when confronted about his lie and whether he felt remorse for stooping so low, he said no. His response epitomized what the Democratic Party's politics of personal destruction would become: "It worked didn't it? He lost, didn't he?"