Media’s Biggest Kavanaugh Misses: Aspiring Hit Pieces on Supreme Court Pick Draw Mockery

“A string of would-be media hits on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have fizzled on impact,” Brian Flood writes for Fox News, “doing little to dent his image and, in some cases, backfiring on the news outlets that published them.”

The most recent attempt? “A detailed New Yorker analysis of his college sports reporting three decades ago -- which quotes one academic, somehow, asserting that Kavanaugh's college basketball articles show he would endorse ‘unlimited Presidential power.’”

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“Neither Kavanaugh nor constitutional originalism are scary,” Northwestern Law Professor Steven Calabresi writes in The Hill. The “standard indictment of originalism” makes five claims, including that originalists supposedly oppose equal civil rights, he explains. “These claims overlook the fact that the great Warren court liberal Justice Hugo Black was an originalist.”

“It’s not quite game over for those hoping to block Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,” Amber Phillips reports for The Washington Post—“but it’s close.” Moderate Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) “both have said they have found nothing disqualifying so far about Kavanaugh.”

On the Senate floor this week, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) explained how Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation process is among the most transparent in history. “Kavanaugh submitted more than 17,000 pages with his Judiciary Committee questionnaire, ‘which is the most extensive questionnaire ever sent a nominee,’” Betsy Russell quotes Sen. Crapo as saying in the Idaho Press.

“Nearly seventy percent, a landslide by all accounts, of voters in West Virginia supported Donald Trump's election,” Melody Potter writes for the West Virginia Record. “It's time for [Sen.] Joe Manchin to decide whether he stands with a majority of West Virginians or with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his liberal allies.”