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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Bigun on March 06, 2019, 03:01:22 pm
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Phony Constitutionalists Despise This Freshman Senator
By Mark Pulliam| March 5th, 2019
Newly elected U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who handily defeated incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill in November, is a former Supreme Court clerk who served previously as Missouri’s attorney general. At age 39, he is the youngest member of the Senate. Generally regarded as a rising star, the cerebral Hawley was named to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a plum assignment for a freshman. Yet just months after taking the oath of office, Hawley was blasted—twice—by the Wall Street Journal, which not only accused him of “bad judgment†but nastily remarked about his youth and physical appearance (referring to him, oddly, as having “a lean and hungry lookâ€).
What apostasy did Hawley commit to warrant such opprobrium? Did he sell out to Planned Parenthood, endorse the Green New Deal, or betray the Republican platform?
No, Hawley had the temerity to express concern about a pending judicial nominee to the D.C. Circuit, widely viewed as the second-most-important court in America, next to the Supreme Court.
Hawley questioned the judicial philosophy of Neomi Rao, President Trump’s choice to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the appellate court that often serves as a stepping stone to the high court (as it did for Kavanaugh, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, and the late Antonin Scalia). Hawley stated he had reservations about Rao’s position on Roe v. Wade—the notorious activist ruling that invented a constitutional right to abortion out of whole cloth—and also concerns about her opposition to the doctrine of “substantive due process.â€...
Much more Here (https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/05/phony-constitutionalists-despise-this-freshman-senator/?fbclid=IwAR08HEc05UGerplgpIKwNJy_oXoNVqOuvrQsIN_acC6qvjcmKkWQ9jNmW6U)
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@Smokin Joe @roamer_1
The next victim has emerged!
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@Smokin Joe @roamer_1
The next victim has emerged!
How long until they find the owner of some skirt he might have glanced up as a toddler?
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How long until they find the owner of some skirt he might have glanced up as a toddler?
Probably having the dress made as we speak!