At least we aren’t getting Justice Ted Nugent
After what will no doubt be a fierce but futile battle, Trump Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will become the next associate justice.
Kavanaugh is likely to further the aims of the president, to diminish and ostracize racial, religious and sexual orientation minorities, immigrants, to limit speech Trump does not agree with, to chip away at abortion rights, to limit voting rights, to enhance the rights of gun owners, and to further degrade the environment, and to place a thumb on the scale for big business over labor.
I suppose we should be thankful that the president did not nominate one of his pals like Don King, Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin or Joe Arpaio. Had he done so, there might have been a sufficient number of Republican Trump stooges (like Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey) in the U.S. Senate to acquiesce.
Oren Spiegler
South Strabane Township