Was my profiling of suspected "Adam Henry" Judge Kavanaugh correct? — you bet'cha

© 2018 Peter Free

 

07 September 2018

 

 

As I implied a couple of days ago

 

You can usually tentatively pigeonhole an "Adam Henry" by his demeanor.

 

To check my hypothesis that Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, not only looked like an antihumanitarian jerk — but was one — I evaluated assessments of his (Court of Appeals for the) DC Circuit opinions.

 

These overviews were recently published by the Alliance for Justice, as well as Public Citizen.

 

Public Citizen's format was the simpler to take in. Citizen examined Kavanaugh's opinions in those cases in which at least one of the DC Circuit judges had disagreed with the final holding. In other words, these are the decisions in which the 3-judge bench ("banc") found legal room to disagree among itself.

 

Public Citizen divided these disagreements into five categories of cases: regulatory law, environmental protection, worker rights, human rights abuses, and antitrust.

 

You can see that these are issues that would interest people, who are concerned with creating a "just" society.

 

 

Indicatively

 

Judge Kavanaugh pretty consistently came down on the moneybags-plunderer side of each spectrum.

 

Meaning that he favored business and unfavored public interests most of the time:

 

 

against regulatory law — 18-4

 

against environmental protection — 11-2

 

against worker rights — 15-2

 

in favor of police and human rights abuse — 7-0

 

against antitrust enforcement — 2-0

 

See Public Citizen, An Analysis of Judge Kavanaugh’s Opinions in Split-Decision Cases, citizen.org (29 August 2018) (at pages 3-4)

 

 

Those are not outcomes that help human beings. Nor do they favor keeping our physical environment tolerable.

 

 

One of my friends said something funny — about Kavanaugh

 

She's not judgmental. Not violent. Not especially political. And usually, one of the most skillfully diplomatic people I know.

 

But last night, watching Judge Kavanaugh speak to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she volunteered out of the blue:

 

 

Doesn't he just look like the kind of person that, as a child, you'd have wanted to walk up to on the playground — and punch his face in?

 

 

I guess We the Rabble innately read Judge Kavanaugh's hostility toward us.

 

 

The moral? — Judge Kavanaugh fails both the demeanor and legal tests

 

He does not belong on a fair-minded society's highest court.