In July, President Donald Trump nominated D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Since then, there have been numerous allegations of sexual misconduct levied toward the Justice to be. Whether or not he is guilty of these allegations is left to be determined. However it does serve as a great distraction from his actual constitution-hating and tyrannical tendencies.
While Kavanaugh may be an ostensible supporter of the Second Amendment, his record indicates that he all but cannot stand the Fourth and he’s not that big a fan of the First either.
While the allegations against Kavanaugh should certainly be investigated — no matter how they are being spun by the left and the right — he shouldn’t even be in this position based solely on his previous record. But no one is talking about this. Instead, the left and right are involved in a mudslinging orgy of victim shaming and kangaroo courts.
According to this Supreme Court nominee, he thinks it is just fine and dandy for police and government to track you, spy on you, and dig through your personal life — without a warrant.
On multiple occasions, Kavanaugh has been the lone voice when it comes supporting the state’s rights to warrantlessly spy on its citizens.
As Reason points out, in 2010 he dissented from the D.C. Circuit’s decision not to rehear a case in which a three-judge panel had ruled that police violated a suspected drug dealer’s Fourth Amendment rights when they tracked his movements for a month by attaching a GPS device to his car without a warrant.
Kavanaugh claimed that putting a GPS tracking device on a person’s car without first obtaining a warrant was just fine because it didn’t constitute a “search” as defined by the Fourth Amendment.
To Kavanaugh, bypassing the courts and tracking an individual without their consent is “constitutional.” In this line of thinking, the Fourth Amendment is not violated even if police trespass on someone’s physical property, or track someone’s cell phone. Luckily, he was the only judge on the panel to think this.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled specifically on this case noting that collecting such information actually does constitute a search and therefore requires a warrant.
But it gets worse. In 2015, Kavanaugh issued a statement strongly defending the NSA’s phone metadata collection program, arguing that it is “entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment.” To Kavanaugh, sweeping programs that collect information from innocent citizens’ phones are not in conflict with having the right to be free from unlawful search and seizure. Seriously.
According to Kavanaugh, the Fourth Amendment allows for searches “without individualized suspicion” when the government demonstrates a “special need” that “outweighs the intrusion on individual liberty.”
Exactly what this “special need” is that can constitute a Gestapo like police state surveilling its own citizens is a moving target that has already been proven to be abused over and over again.
“The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice,” Senator Rand Paul said of Kavanaugh’s views on the disposable nature of the constitution.
Kavanaugh “has no qualms about applying decades-old case law to the digital age, and he has endorsed the idea of a “counterterrorism exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement,” said Liza Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program.
While the left is calling for Kavanaugh to be executed over the sex abuse allegations and the right is attacking the alleged victims, others in Congress who see through the facade and media distraction are trying to draw attention to the fact that Kavanaugh is a champion of the police and surveillance state and an enemy to privacy.
Representative Justin Amash does not have a vote on whether or not Kavanaugh will be appointed. However, this hasn’t prevented him from becoming the only Republican to speak out against the real reasons he should not be appointed to Supreme Court.
“Privacy advocates must fight,” Amash tweeted. “There are many potential nominees with a conservative record on abortion, guns, and regulations. The only question is will the Senate confirm one who is really bad on the #4thAmendment, when so much is at stake in upcoming digital privacy battles.”
Indeed, as technology increases, so does the desire of the state to use it to spy on us. The cases headed to the supreme court in the future over what constitutes an unconstitutional search will undoubtedly be vast in number and detrimental in deciding how much freedom and privacy Americans get to keep.
As for if Kavanaugh gets appointed, Amash has some harsh words to those who are blindly supporting him based on party lines:
“When Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court, undermining our #4thAmendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures, it will be too late for others to join me.”
Below is a video taken at the Mises Institute of Judge Napolitano explaining the implications of this enemy of the Fourth amendment on the Supreme Court.
Good grief! Okay, Fox News Judge, let me get this straight.
The left went out of its way to drag this strange woman from Kavanaugh’s high school to accuse him of something she can’t quite remember and the real problem we are faced with is Kavanaugh has the same blind spot concerning rights of privacy and freedom from search and seizure that all our Justice and Law Enforcement agencies seem to have?
I guess we need Judge Napolitano on SCOTUS. That will fix it.
From everything I’ve hear, yes, Judge Napolitano would be a great addition.
And if you think he’ll ever get nominated you’re too dumb to pay attention to.
She did not go to his high school.
That’s right sports fans. You got took one mo’ time (See ‘A Man Of His Word’). They’re not lording over us because they’re stupid. It’s cloaked in a faux outrage of a learned decent man who is being tortured because he may have dry humped some snowflake 36 years ago. Every decent person knows that even if he’s guilty that’s no reason to wreck his life except for the evil rabble rousers who despise white, straight, Christian (and especially Southern) men. So they show you the shiny object to deflect your attention then poon your ass while you’re distracted.
“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”. Prometheus
Vote, my ass.
You win, they win. You lose, they win. The odds favor the house.
Duh? I said before in the other posts that Kavanaugh hates freedom, the constitution and the bill of rights. Now you’re reposting it. Get the democrat vs. republican head out of thine ass.
Nobody likes an “I told you so because I’m so smart”
Nobody likes an “I told you so and you didn’t listen, so now you republish what I already told you before”, either. But the difference is, they gave me down votes when I said the exact same thing before as what this article is saying right now. Kind of like a Stockholm Syndrome moment huh.
Can someone clarify for me. I read his “Kavanaugh hates the first amendment” link and it appears to have more to do with limiting private billionaires from establishing “non-profits” and donating or creating political activist groups which would influence elections.
I can’t see how limiting the rich from circumventing limitations on political donations and groups ( in this case it was a pro-abortion group advocating leftist candidates) as an infringement on the First Amendment. Maybe I read it wrong but that’s what it seems like as the Emily’s List org which was comprised of big-monied, leftist groups was trying to use non-profit exemptions to under-handedly trickle free advertising and campaigning to their select candidates.
Maybe I read this wrong. As for cops being able to track drug dealers without a warrant–I believe due process should always require a warrant if a person is suspect but not yet found guilty–I don’t agree with his standing on that issue.
The “right” in extremis, will always trend toward authoritarian, the “left” always trends towards tyranny. It is the duty of citizens to be vigilant and remain well-armed for the time Jefferson spoke of.
Kavanaugh Made a judgement on as the 4 th was written as.
By Kavanugh acceptance that the tracking did not break any wording in the 4th he was not upholding spying.
He was uphothe 4th that was written long before such tracking technology was even thought of.
By Kavanaugh doing right by reading correctly to the letter of the law he forced the updateing of the 4th to reflect technology never dreamed of.
Now for the real reason that this thread did not mention is this:
The American Bar Association, the lawyer’s union, has prospered under the rule of lawyers, who are free to make the law mean what they want it to mean and get rich doing it.
They see the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh as risking a return to the rule of law, where laws mean things and men are innocent till proven guilty. They are calling for an FBI witch hunt against him. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652461140/american-bar-association-reportedly-wants-fbi-investigation-ahead-of-kavanaugh-v
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652461140/american-bar-association-reportedly-wants-fbi-investigation-ahead-of-kavanaugh-v
If we’re looking for someone 100% establishment, it’s Kavanaugh. His family and the accuser’s knew each other. That’s how inbred the D.C. culture is, and these families were part of it. Maybe the families have a grudge, but this has been disgusting and totally unnecessary.
Cavanot is “one of them” but some don’t want to believe that. See an analysis of Trump’s body language when he announced that he was nominating the globalist, dirt-bag, cavadouche. Compare that to an analysis of when he nominated Gorsuch. Cavanaughty was forced upon Trump, surely as a quid-pro-quo for the sundry dirty deeds in servitude to the Bush’s, the Clintons and who knows what other devils. Cavanod is a turd, a scoundrel, a fuckwad, a prick and criminal- just like his masters. The last few days were nothing more than theatre. Maybe to distract us from the revelation that that one butthole-can’t remember his name, only his rat face-at the Dept of inJustice who got caught saying he wanted to relieve Trump of his duties. And who knows what else. Trump may not even be the real deal, so you all better start waking up to the fact that the globalists have the deck stacked and that the survival of your family may one day depend on your fitness, your fieldcraft, your ability to use a rifle scope and how well you’ve prepared yourself and your family to survive the worst of conditions.
Kavanaugh actually worked with Kenneth Starr in his investigations of the Clinton’s corruption and also was involved in the process that saw old Willie and his perverse pecker get impeached— just for full disclosure and honest discourse I thought that should be known.
The government keeps you legal, but what keeps you moral?
I keep trying to make the same point the author is, to my wife. I don’t think she gets it. I have been saying this is theater the whole time.
They wan’t the “right” to believe they are getting a good nominee, and they want the left to believe they are fighting against the nominee. It is all bullshit. And the icing on the cake for the jews is that it has further poisoned relations between the sexes among whites.
Yes, every one of these media stories that have male-bashing themes is, in the end, about breaking up the white mother-father family structure.