Mike Lee giving Kavanaugh green light?

[kona]

"It was a pleasure meeting Judge Kavanaugh today. His insight into the current state of the law and the Constitution shows he is just the kind of originalist jurist we need on the Court."

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1019672133398614017?s=19

What does this say about Mike Lee? Playing the long game?

[Krugminator2]

It says Kavanaugh is a pretty easy confirm.

[Swordsmyth]

"It was a pleasure meeting Judge Kavanaugh today. His insight into the current state of the law and the Constitution shows he is just the kind of originalist jurist we need on the Court."

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1019672133398614017?s=19

What does this say about Mike Lee? Playing the long game?

I think he is playing the part of a "team player" so that he can be nominated after Kavanaugh is withdrawn, he doesn't want it to look like he shot Kavanaugh down so he could get the seat for himself.

[Schifference]

I think he is playing the part of a "team player" so that he can be nominated after Kavanaugh is withdrawn, he doesn't want it to look like he shot Kavanaugh down so he could get the seat for himself.

This

[Matt Collins]

I like Mike but he is weak.

[enhanced_deficit]

Mike Lee on some foreign policy issues comes across as bit irrational in his views. He's apparently not much different from 'lying Ted' and Lindsey Graham on some mideast freedom/human rights foreign policy issues.

But to give credit where due, he seems to have convictions (even if some bit more religious than rational) and does speak out his mind. So that is an admirable trait.


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That said, Trump will never pick him for any important position.. unless AIPAC or his largest donor Sheldon Adelson lobbies hard for that.



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[Jan2017]

Kavanaugh has written almost 300 decisions in 12 years on the federal appellate court

Kavanaugh generally brings a pragmatic approach to judging, although his judicial philosophy is conservative,
and he has applied principles of textualism and originalism espoused by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.”

One is Priests for Life v. HHS, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals refused to allow a rehearing for a religious group’s challenge to an Obamacare requirement that employers provide birth control to employees. Kavanaugh dissented from that decision.

He argued that religious organizations should not be forced to provide contraception, falling in line with conservative thought on the issue.

But breaking a little bit from some conservatives, he also argued that the government does have a compelling interest
in facilitating access to contraception. In doing so, he followed the decision written by his mentor, Justice Anthony Kennedy,
in his decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores 573 U.S. ------- ( 2014 )

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/how-kavanaugh-ruled-gun-control-health-care-other-hot-button-n890381

In a 2011 case, Seven-Sky v. Holder, the appeals court upheld the individual mandate to buy health insurance,
a pillar of the Affordable Care Act. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent, saying the mandate was essentially a tax
and thus outside the court’s jurisdiction.

This argument - in a bizarro inverted topsy-turvy twist - later became central when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare.
i.e. same argument that individual mandate was a tax was used to say the mandate was unconstitutional by Kavanaugh -
and then - constitutional by Roberts. Go figure.

[enhanced_deficit]

Has he ever written anything on or ruled on enhanced torture in the context of US citizens' constitutional rights?

There was some chatter that he was not very Constitutional minded when it came to civil liberty rights of Americans/Police State/war lobbies etc but have not looked into that.

[nikcers]

Has he ever written anything on or ruled on enhanced torture in the context of US citizens' constitutional rights?

There was some chatter that he was not very Constitutional minded when it came to civil liberty rights of Americans/Police State/war lobbies etc but have not looked into that.

Judge Napolitano called him Judge Swamp.

[kcchiefs6465]

An originalist who doesn't understand the Fourth Amendment.

Seems legit.

[kona]

Judge Napolitano called him Judge Swamp.
For what it's worth, Napolitano's first choice for SC was Mike Lee (see recent Tom Woods podcast).