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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1092215)

10/8/2018 9:21:42 AM

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Cruz Leads O’Rourke
50-44 in October Poll

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz leads Democrat challenger Beto O’Rourke 50 to 44 in a CBS YouGov poll conducted October 2-5. The survey of 1,031 registered and likely Texas voters released Sunday showed Cruz with a six point lead over O’Rourke in the more recent CBS battleground tracker poll. Democrat voters were motivated to vote out of opposition to President Donald Trump while Republican voters indicated their vote for U.S. Senate is motivated out of support for President Trump, according to CBS.

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1092215)	10/8/2018 9:41:51 AM
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What do you think about Kavanaugh being confirmed? Donald Rysavy, former District Judge at Minnesota (1994-2014) As a conservative, a retired judge, and a student of history, I am sadly disappointed that judge Kavanaugh was confirmed. I believe that he is intellectually capable of doing the job, but both ideologically and temperamentally unsuited to sit on the highest court. A view of history should give some insight to those who believe Kavanaugh was a great appointment by POTUS, and was unfairly treated. Prior to recent changes in senate rules confirmation hearings were often contentious and some said unfair. Appointees came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but were ultimately confirmed by a 60 vote majority in the Senate. Why is this important you ask? The easy answer is that the then sitting President knew that an appointment of an ideologically and/or temperamentally unsuitable candidate would be unlikely to garner 60 out of 100 votes in the Senate. (e.g Bork). The result then was to appoint conservative or liberal candidates, (depending on the party of the President) who were qualified, but less than ideogical or temperamental firebrands. With the advent of our present political climate, the Senate changed the rules for confirmation to allow a mere majority to confirm. This allowed the nomination of less qualified and more ideological candidates, such as judge, now Justice, Kavanaugh. We can and should do better America. Mike Jones 16h ago · 20 upvotes including Donald Rysavy Nicely put. I continue to be utterly baffled at why the confirmation of Kavanaugh was so important to them. There must be dozens of accomplished conservative judges without Kavanaugh’s political or personal baggage. Why not nominate one of them instead? There’s something here that I’m simply not seeing, and I don’t believe it’s as simple as “he’ll vote to allow the President to fire Mueller” or other such explanations. There have to be other people who agree with him on those points. I’m trying really hard to come up with an explanation other than “it’s a huge middle finger to the libs”, but I’m not getting anywhere. Nathan Lacoff Actually by the fact he was confirmed, he knew he had the job and felt he could say anything or lie with impunity. Shame on republican senators including Susan Collins for pushing such a reprehensible candidate through. He was not the only conservative judge and he is horribly biased.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1092215)	10/8/2018 1:51:22 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583512

You realize the same could(and should) be said about Reagan and the Bush cabal?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1092215)

10/8/2018 5:09:41 PM

From: Brumar89

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Kavanaugh, Garland voted together 93 percent of the time

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh voted 93 percent of the time with his colleague Judge Merrick Garland, who President Obama unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court in 2016, when they both heard cases together on a federal appeals court in D.C.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, pointed out the statistics during Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Wednesday, dismissing some cries from Democrats that Judge Kavanaugh is out of the mainstream and Mr. Obama’s pick for the high court should have been given a hearing and a vote.

Both nominees served together on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Judge Garland’s nomination expired when Mr. Trump took office and nominated Justice Neil M. Gorsuch instead for the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

According to Mr. Cruz, Judge Garland joined 27 out of 28 opinions written by Judge Kavanaugh, while Judge Kavanaugh joined 28 out of 30 of Judge Garland’s rulings.

Judge Kavanaugh said their decisions aligned because both of them approach the law as written without interjecting personal preferences.

“I think we are trying hard to find common ground and as I’ve said before, he is a great judge,” Judge Kavanaugh said. “Those statistics reflect the reality of how judges go about their business.”

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Rick Morales The Federalist Society nominated a liberal

Gwyn Kilbourne Ugh, I sure hope not. How disappointing that would be. I feel certain that he was chosen because of his views on prosecuting presidents while in office.

Courtney Carmean I thought Kavanaugh wasn’t on the federalist’s list?

Courtney Carmean Ah, he wasn’t on the original list. Sorry!

Brenda Reem Wheelock If trump would have nominated Merrick Garland he would have gotten close to 100 senator's approving him because no one would have had a legitimate argument against him. And he would have gotten essentially the same type of judge.

Pam Horton Shocked face.

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Dennis Whitworth Cruz hasn’t been the same since he was cornered in endorsing Trump

Mari Soares Alvarez Because trumpies believe everything thier orange god tells them, and D's believe everything trump does is "conservative". Both parties are full of fools.