The latest Ivy to jump onto the anti-Brett Kavanaugh bandwagon is Princeton, where numerous undergraduates circulated a letter opposing his nomination to the US Supreme Court.
Written by sophomore and potential lawyer Jaren McKinnie, the letter addressed to the US Senate and President Trump says “We do not oppose the nomination […] based on ideological grounds,” but do so due to the “expeditious” nature of the hearings which leave unclear “breaches of morality of the most severe degree.”
It continues: “We refuse to support appointing an individual who has possibly participated in such illicit acts as he has been accused.”
The Ivy League sure has a thing against due process.
As reported by The Daily Princetonian, McKinnie takes this reversal of basic American jurisprudence a step further: “If the FBI investigation finds Kavanaugh to be innocent, [he] said he hopes that Senate Democrats will end their holdout and confirm Kavanaugh, whom he calls ‘extremely qualified.’”
The seeming bipartisanship notwithstanding, Kavanaugh is presumed guilty … until the FBI exonerates him.
Speaking of bipartisanship, The Princetonian notes the letter (a copy of which The College Fix has obtained) “attempts to bridge the gap” of political opinions on the issue; however, much like with the media, “bipartisanship” seems only to manifest itself when Republicans concur with Democrats, never the reverse.
For example, McKinnie says the Kavanaugh nomination process was thrown into “further disarray” by the GOP via its hearings haste. However, he concedes that the time allowed between Kavanaugh’s nomination and the (original) confirmation vote was “very close to the average time” allotted for Supreme Court nominees.
So … why the seeming contradiction?
“We must accept that this is not a normal nomination,” McKinnie says. The “stakes” in Washington are “high,” he claims, and as such “selecting any person for the job at this moment must require the most thorough vetting possible.”
More from the letter:
Senate Republicans are also guilty of their willingness to have a federal appointment succeed with only unilateral support. The current Senate Vote [sic] projection has all ‘’yes” votes coming from Republicans, and all “no” votes coming from Democrats and Independents. The fact that any entity would be so ready and willing to push through any vote without support from the other major party in America is disgraceful. This was meant to be a country where the majority cannot simply overpower the minority. There have been several accusations thrown about that certain recent actions have been “un-American” on both sides of the aisle, and to that we say that this is one of the most un-American acts in our recent history, and for it to be carried out by our highest political leaders is shameful to the very idea of a pluralistic democracy. While Democrats have been no better in the past, those were decisions that have already been made and cannot be changed. Their wrongs of the past do not give Republicans a free pass to return the favor. To share the ideas of the late and great Senator John McCain, a national symbol and lesson in bipartisanship, this should not be about “them,” or the opposition. Their wrongs do not absolve us of our duties to uphold and respect our founding convictions. It is about us. It is about those who can choose to make the right choice now and live the full American Way.
If the invocation of Senator McCain isn’t enough to see through the “bipartisan” charade, McKinnie goes on to note how McCain’s Arizona pal, Jeff Flake, was confronted in an elevator by “heroes” after his stated intention to vote for Judge Kavanaugh last week.
Further: McKinnie points out how President George H.W. Bush and the Senate of 1991 failed to stand “on the side of basic human decency” and “basic human morality” because … Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court despite Anita Hill’s testimony.
The College Fix reached out to McKinnie for comment but received no response in time for publication.
Read the full Princetonian article.
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