Letters: Kavanaugh a poor choice

Kavanaugh a poor choice

Our founding fathers strove to create a constitution and government for the United States that would be based on “checks and balances” in the three legislative branches.  They wanted to prevent autocracy and ensure the freedom from abuse of power. However, we are seeing anything but “checks and balances” as the Republicans abdicate their right to contain the president’s ill-advised behavior. 

The latest exploitation of power is the action of Trump and the Republicans to try to ram through Congress an unpopular Supreme Court nominee. While refusing to schedule hearing of President Obama’s candidate for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, citing it was too close to an election, the Republicans have conveniently reversed their own rule. They want to try to get Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court before the Midterm elections.

(They know the Blue Wave is coming.)  They want to load a conservative Supreme Court that will impact generations to come and rollback progressive legislation in government.

“Newly released emails show Brett Kavanaugh has misled the Senate Judiciary Committee at least four times during his confirmation hearing” (in 2006), writes Travis Gettys of News and Politics, Sept. 7, 2008.  Meanwhile, according to USA Today, the Trump Administration withheld 100,000 pages of Kavanaugh’s records from the Bush Administration citing presidential privilege.  What do the Republicans have to hide about Kavanaugh?

While claiming to be impartial, Kavanaugh is clearly anything but that.  He is known as a partisan judge whose latest controversial ruling was trying to delay a 17-year-old immigrant girl in Texas from obtaining a legal, constitutional abortion. Fortunately it was overturned by the federal courts. Our nation, particularly women, fear the repercussions for reproductive health and past progressive legislation if Kavanaugh is elected to the Supreme Court to be a fifth conservative vote.

Judith McLean, Waynesboro

Support Trump – Learn Russian

The words “would” and “wouldn't” sound very similar in Russian, so the mistake by President Trump in translation after the Helsinki meeting when he said he “wouldn’t think” Russia was involved in meddling, is understandable and forgivable. He was supposed to say he “would think” they were involved. Trust me. Betsy DeVos should introduce compulsory Russian language in all schools so such mistakes can be avoided in the future.
The private meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump was a way to improve communications. Nothing more. Maybe a Trump hotel in Russia. What's the big deal? Let's face it. Russia may or may not be our enemy. Maria Butina (the supposed “spy”) helped get the NRA a boatload of badly needed money for its political efforts, thank goodness. And Trump's bankruptcies could not have been solved were it not for Russian mafia money, so I guess it's OK.
And now, President Putin is not going to be able to visit the White House this fall because the military parade can't happen, thanks to Obama. And North Korea keeps doing the nuke thing, thanks to Obama. Trump would be getting a Nobel Peace Prize if not for Obama.
And now with Manafort and Cohen and more guilty pleas, plea deals, and convictions and indictments issued, enough with the Mueller witch hunt already. He's finding too many witches, and for what? Trump did no “collision with the truth,” so let it go. You know what they say in Russian? No? Neither do I but it’s something like “come on comrades, er, I mean fellow patriots, can't we all just get along?”
Tom Rymsza, Chambersburg
 

Coded words

Mr. Brechbill, you continually submit letters to this paper with a very concise tone of absolute divisiveness. There is never any constructiveness to your writings whatsoever.

For example, you stated one party tried to politically lynch "our" Justice Clarence Thomas but you failed to mention he had sexual harassment charges levied against him; now we have a new nominee for the Supreme Court and "your" party seems to want to suppress very important documents concerning his views and past decisions as sitting judge. It is our constitutional right to support a party of our choice but you seem to denigrate and demonize Democrats without any regard to this mess we currently have in the White House not to mention Congress. Now that surely cannot be a Democratic, independant or Green Party issue, I don't believe.

By the way history says Honest Abe was a president for all people, unlike the present occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  You use the term Blue Dog referring Democrats. Perhaps you meant Blue Wave coming this November, stay tuned!

Chazz Brown, Chambersburg