Bring on the Clowns:

WILLIAM BARR, TRUMP’S AG NOMINEE, FACES THE “ALL-STAR SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE” TUESDAY

• “Spartacus,
• “Kammy” (Harris),
• Di-Fi (She’s probably already gotten an anonymous tip that Barr’s a ‘predator’, months ago), and
• Chris (Don’tcha wish Delaware had elected a ‘witch?) Coons, of the Coons/Flake vaudeville act at the last SCOTUS hearings.

But what will we get, when it’s over? 1. a Gorsuch, 2. a Kavanaugh, or 3. a Christopher Wray?

With 1. we get a likely ‘center-right’ person who performs his Constitutional duties, reflecting the will of the electorate in 2016 and his own views on Constitutional originalism.

With 2. we get a prospective ‘center-right’ individual, who, apparently (to us), was intimidated and diminished by his confirmation experience. We fear, based on the limited examples so far, that he may be likely to stray from his Constitutionalist impulses, perhaps in order to occasionally, or often, demonstrate to those Judiciary Democrats that he is not the ‘evil incarnate’ as he was portrayed.

With 3. we get as pure an “establishment” figure as possible in a Trump nominee. Probably not a “Deep Stater” but certainly one who seems to have been compromised early on to support, if not advance its agenda.

And how will we know which door Mr. Barr will come out of?

Assuming he ultimately is confirmed, having barely survived the usual malevolent behavior of Judiciary Democrats and the tightest possible Senate vote, we may have in Mr. Barr an Attorney General who will act in the interests of the American people and according to the values and Constitutional requirements of the nation.

If, as expected, the Judiciary Committee experience is as brutalizing and partisan as recently seen, but Mr. Barr survives it and a razor thin Senate confirmation vote, we will have to wait, and hope that he will follow the instincts for the proper direction of his office, as we believe him to have.

If, however, this nominee is treated by Judiciary Democrats roughly and with pettiness, but without the extreme malice they are capable of and known for, and passes the Senate with a number of Democrat votes… I am afraid President Trump is burdened with another Deep State sympathizer (like FBI Director Wray), or worse. DLH

PS In support of my contention that Brett Kavanaugh may be, at best, an unreliable Constitutional constructionist due to the effects of his bruising confirmation hearings, this post by Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine, provides some support for that concern, and an analysis even more concerning. Rather than a conservative majority on the Court, we have instead a Roberts/ Kavanaugh left of center collaboration. Not good…and quite disappointing.   DLH

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