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    #419 Kavanaugh, Showing We're Needed

    July 13, 2018

    Brett Kavanaugh on Our Issues
     

     




            As is our custom with new U.S. Supreme Court nominees, we offer what we know, based on news reports.
     
     

     
    Abortion
     
            In his dissent on a case allowing an immigrant teenager’s abortion, Kavanaugh wrote "the government has permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refraining from facilitating abortion." But added: "all parties to this case recognize Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as precedents we must follow."
            Many assume he’d vote to overturn Roe. That was hoped for Anthony Kennedy also. Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy.
     
    Death Penalty
     
            While several news outlets assume as a conservative he’d support capital punishment, they give no details. 
    Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty offers good conservative reasoning for opposition to executions. Kavanaugh’s a devout Catholic, and the Catholic hierarchy’s position is to end it. We can’t yet guess how Kavanaugh feels. 
     
    Euthanasia
     
            No comments were found. Unlike previous nominee Neil Gorsuch, who 
    wrote an entire book on the topic, there’s nothing (other than being a devout Catholic) to indicate his position. At least, unlike abortion, there’s no complication of a legal precedent to be overturned 
     
    War
     
           Kavanaugh considers war powers (
    see pages 1475-1489 of a law review article he wrote): “As a political and policy matter, it makes sense for there to be an inter-branch consensus among our federal elected officials . . . .Such consensus maximizes public and political support for the war effort while minimizing the risk that war will be undertaken hastily without proper consideration.”   [writing about the executive and legislative branches]
     
    Poverty
     
           As he mentioned 
    in his opening remarks when nominated: “These days, I help serve meals to the homeless at Catholic Charities.” How might this impact rulings? His tendency to favor businesses can cause skepticism. But at least having the experience of direct interaction with people in poverty is better than not having it.   
     
    Racism
     
            Also in his opening remarks, he said: “My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and 70s she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C.” He helped reinstate a lawsuit on racial discrimination, 
    writing that “being called the n-word by a supervisor . . . suffices by itself to establish a racially hostile work environment.” As a Yale law student, he published a law review article about jury selection, proposing a way to strengthen against racial discrimination.

    When the Pro-Life Movement Knows It Needs Us
     
            While Rachel MacNair was making contacts to promote our Grassroots Defunding campaign, Kelsey Hazzard of our member group Secular Pro-Life gave a workshop at the recent National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) convention in Kansas on presenting the pro-life case in a secular way. An audience member asked about the issue of immigrant children torn away from their parents, worrying that the single-issue pro-life focus would keep organizations from taking a stand on that, thereby reducing pro-life credibility.
            Rachel let the workshop audience know that at that very moment, we had 
    a pro-life contingent in the Families Belong Together D.C. rally. The feeling in the room seemed to be an understanding that, by doing that, we were providing a real service to the entire pro-life movement.

    Selfie: Rachel MacNair & Kelsey Hazzard at NRLC Convention

     

    Latest CLN Blog Post
     
          There was a stir recently when leaders of “Republican Majority for Choice” gave up on the Republican Party in disgust. Jim Kelly considers the basic question of how that party came to oppose abortion. His thesis is that fiscal conservatism doesn’t win elections but social conservatism does, in The Future of Fake Social Conservatism.
     

     
    Quotation of the Week
    Aldous Huxley
    The Olive Tree, 1936
     
            The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

    Responses/News tips/Questions to share are all welcome.

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    #490 War Referendums, Euthanasia & Poverty

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            The U.S. is having a major election November 3, 2020, and we started a list of U.S. state referendums in a blog post. We plan to launch a website called Peace & Life Referendums on January 6. We’ve been highl...

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