Forget Spartacus — this nation and the Senate needs a Lindsey Graham moment.
We have witnessed the left sacrifice process, procedure and their own professionalism.
This deliberate attempt was orchestrated to derail Judge Kavanaugh. They did not use their knowledge of the process or corroborated allegations to reach their stated political goal. They went far past the norms of opposition research to raise issues that could not be corroborated or vetted by the committee.
Simply, they were not looking for the truth they were looking for anything.
The investigators for the committee, outside organizations and the press allow no stone to be unturned. When I testified in the Sotomayor hearing, someone went through my trash.
These hunters find a lead and that lead is chased down and vetted. An allegation alone is not, nor should it be, enough to destroy someone’s life and career. There has to be some corroboration, documents or multiple people willing to go on the record.
First, on July 10, Democratic senators announced that they would not vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. This is critical, not to demonstrate that the process is partisan, it demonstrates that their search for truth and more information is nothing more than a ruse.
Democrats also realized early on that facts would not carry the day. This is why this allegation was held by Sen. Feinstein and the other Democratic senators was only a card to be played in desperation. They played this card as a Hail Mary based only on political rhetoric, false compromise and personal attacks.
Some on the right wrongly stated this shows their bias, yet, confirmation hearings are not about having an impartial hearing. They are an essential part of a political process and politics will always play a role.
The hearing is an opportunity to vet the individual based off facts and their ability to faithful discharge their duty. However, for the minority, the hearings are much more.
I have seen the public, first-year law school students and new politicians struggle with the role of the minority opinion in court rulings and at hearings. The political rule is: when you have the majority you vote and when in the minority, you talk.
Besides the responsibility dictated by the Constitution to advise and consent. The hearings offer the public a window into how outcomes would be different if the other party or another judicial Philosophy won the day. It shows Americans why elections matter.
Hearings are supposed to present both sides present their political case. They are not supposed to be a public sacrifice of the truth at the expense of the nation and the nominee.
These hearings went far beyond the normal political theater where political hypocrites ask questions from their high perches to score political points — where pundits on TV gleam incorrect conclusions based off lose facts.
This hearing went far past the Bork hearings. This hearing took the most deliberative body in the world and reduced it to a playground were a yearbook and uncorroborated allocations were the foundation for personal destruction without the political narrative.
This was winning at all costs, even if it meant losing one’s dignity. The stakes are high and this drama played well beyond the normal high drama of Supreme Court nominations.
South Carolina Sen. Graham cautioned that voting “no” would be “legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.” He went on to state “Boy, you guys want power. God, I hope you never get it.”
This oration should be compelling to all Americans. Sen. Graham is viewed to be one of the centrist Senators on the Judiciary Committee.
He voted for Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, not because he believed in their Jurisprudence. He voted for them acknowledging their qualifications, the Constitution and the President ‘s discretion to choose his or her nominee.
Judge Kavanaugh was correct with the assertion that this charade was revenge for the Clintons and the results of the election that Democrats just can’t get past.
This new FBI investigation is only a pretext for delay and destruction. The Senate must not allow this ruse to continue past the end of this week. Sen. Flake false compromise will only serve to harm the process and a good man.
Rest assured the left will not be satisfied with any supplemental investigation. An investigation that is charged with investigating an alleged incident that is over thirty years old, has no known location of the event and no corroborating witnesses.
We will always have politics polarizing positions and that will not change. But we must not change America where due process and basic fairness transcends politics. Where the tie goes to the runner and the presumption of innocence’s is the cornerstone stone of our republic.
It is time to stand with Sen. Graham and confirm Judge Kavanaugh by the end of this week.
Frank Ricci was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano. He is an advisory board member for Fire Engineering, a battalion chief and union president in New Haven, Conn. Ricci’s opinions are not related to and do not reflect those of his employer of the professional organizations in which is involved.
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