{"id":31542,"date":"2018-09-27T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31542"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:44:03","slug":"writing-my-senator-judge-brett-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31542","title":{"rendered":"Writing My Senator: Judge Brett Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text of an email I sent this afternoon to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomey.senate.gov\">Senator Pat Toomey<\/a>, one of my Senators:<\/p>\n<p>I wrote to you a few days ago about Judge Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court, raising concerns I had about the accusations leveled against the judge by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. You wrote in reply at that time, &#8220;The test is not whether we agree with every decision a judicial nominee has rendered, but whether that nominee understands the proper role of a judge and has the character, intellect, and experience to merit confirmation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have followed, as many Americans have no doubt, the hearings today, first with Dr. Blasey Ford, then with Judge Kavanaugh. I believe that Judge Kavanaugh&#8217;s performance this afternoon shows him to fail the first part of your three-part test for confirmation, that of character. Judge Kavanaugh has been angry and hostile to the Senate Judiciary Committee, demonstrating that he lacks the temperament to be a Supreme Court judge. Further, Judge Kavanaugh claims to be a victim of a partisan conspiracy, blaming President and Secretary Clinton and members of the Democratic Party for delaying his confirmation, raising the question of whether he can truly be impartial on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that Judge Kavanaugh has the intellect to be a judge. His experience, in my opinion, is questionable. But he lacks the character to be a Supreme Court judge, and he demonstrated that to every American today with his angry and embittered performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee today.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kavanaugh fails your three-part test for confirmation. If the White House does not withdraw the nomination, if Majority Leader McConnell brings Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination to the floor, by your own stated standards you cannot confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>I ask that you vote no on Judge Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text of an email I sent this afternoon to Senator Pat Toomey, one of my Senators: I wrote to you a few days ago about Judge Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court, raising concerns I had about the accusations leveled against the judge by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez. You wrote in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31542\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Writing My Senator: Judge Brett Kavanaugh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[4700,4699,595],"class_list":["post-31542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-pat-toomey","tag-supreme-court","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}