by Dov Fischer
Clarence Thomas accepted vacations paid by a rich guy. Therefore he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice?
Samuel Alito’s wife hangs flags that may carry implied political messages. Therefore he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice?
Brett M. Kavanaugh? We know the lie by which he was persecuted in front of his wife and daughters by a liar. So he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice?
Amy Coney Barrett has the “dogma liv[ing] inside” her? So she should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice?
It never ends.
The Left has no end of vile and despicable tactics up their sleeves to corrupt the law and justice — and just plain fairness. They destroyed the reputations of Robert Bork, G. Harrold Carswell, and Clement Haynsworth. And it worked. They sought to sully, stain, and crush the reputation and dignity of Clarence Thomas. That almost worked. They intimidated Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush into throwing their hands to the sky, giving up on their conservative Supreme Court selections, and moving to the leftist milquetoasts the Democrats wanted: left-liberal judges like Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter.
The Democrats’ strategy always works. They have no qualms or consciences about fair play or destroying fine and decent people. Had it not been for miracles, by now they would have added Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states (giving them four more U.S. senators), would have expanded the Supreme Court to 15 justices (the current nine plus six extra Obama-Biden judges), and soon would try adding 10 million or more Illegals as Democrat voters to guarantee their ultimate dream of fixing elections.
Republicans in Washington take it and take it and take it, like human piñatas. That is why so many conservative everyday citizens have turned to Donald Trump and Tea Party–type U.S. senators and Freedom Caucus–type congressional representatives. There is no way to have justice and fairness in America other than by fighting back, punch by punch, until the viciousness stops.
Why was there never a Republican concerted effort to have Ruth Ginsburg barred from all cases that had even an indirect tie to Donald Trump after she went on record just randomly calling him a liar, a “faker” In her words, “He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.” She shamelessly proclaimed her bias as to all things Trumpian explicitly, just as publicly as Hunter Biden proclaimed to the world that he is a drug addict. That was a simple matter of case closed. The Left challenges Alito’s right to sit on any “January 6 appeal,” while no one ever argued that Ginsburg had prejudiced herself so much more frontally as to Trump.
Why was Ketanji Jackson — the one who could not define what a woman is — let through so easily, particularly after that person could not define that term under oath? What, she has a Harvard degree? So do dozens of people who create encampments, fight cops, and threaten fellow students there. What, that person is different? Did the Republicans seek her law school transcripts? Was that person a straight-A student? If not, how much not? (We know they inflate all the grades there anyway.) But why no grilling, like Schumer with cheese on a raw hamburger? Does that person consider that person’s self to be a female, a male, or nondescript? If that person regards that person’s self as female, why can she not define it? We know she was selected because that person was deemed an Affirmative Action/DEI “two-fer”: black and female. Yet, although benefiting from being classified as DEI-eligible “female,” that person cannot define it. Moreover, that person’s prior service as a district judge was undistinguished. Her opinions even were overruled by liberal Democrat judges, sometimes unanimously.
And Sotomayor. How did she slither through unscratched? Even a darling Harvard Law School judicial scholar of the Left wrote a private letter to Obama, calling her utterly unworthy of being named to the Supreme Court. She herself admits she got into Princeton college with low standardized testing scores and again into the coveted Yale Law School via “Affirmative Action” despite her low scores again in standardized admission testing. She called herself “the perfect affirmative action baby” and blamed her consistently low testing on “cultural biases” of the tests. She “was not considered among the star students of her class.” She was given a try-out as a summer associate at the prominent law firm of Paul, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, and she herself admitted that her “performance was lacking.” Remarkably, contrary to standard practice at such firms, Paul, Rifkind did not invite her back after her 2L summer and did not offer her a position.
The following year, she filed a complaint against the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge for saying at a recruitment dinner that she got into Yale as an affirmative action student. Got that? She attacked them for saying about her what she herself has said about herself! When Obama named her for the Supreme Court, extreme leftist Harvard professor Laurence Tribe urged Obama not to appoint Sotomayor, writing that “she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is,” and that “her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal impulses backfire and simply add to the fire power of the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing of the court.”
How effete the Republicans have been repeatedly as their own outstanding Supreme Court candidates have been savaged mercilessly by Democrat character assassins, while truly compromised Democrat nominees have sailed through untouched! So now the Democrat character assassins go after Justices Alito and Thomas. Republicans have to stand up. The only way this ever will end is if and when the GOP does it right back. Hopefully, though, the next opportunity will be several presidential terms from now.
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Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., is Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values (comprising over 2,000 Orthodox rabbis), was adjunct professor of law at two prominent Southern California law schools for nearly 20 years, and is Rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California. He was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and clerked for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before practicing complex civil litigation for a decade at three of America’s most prominent law firms: Jones Day, Akin Gump, and Baker & Hostetler. He likewise has held leadership roles in several national Jewish organizations, including Zionist Organization of America, Rabbinical Council of America, and regional boards of the American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation. His writings have appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Federalist, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, and Israel Hayom. A winner of an American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Legal Ethics, Rabbi Fischer also is the author of two books, including General Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine, which covered the Israeli General’s 1980s landmark libel suit. Other writings are collected at www.rabbidov.com.
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