The Intercept: Dear Senators: The Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh Includes Churches, Law Professors, and Conservatives — Even His Own Friends
Full Text here: https://theintercept.com/2018/10/05/dear-susan-collins-the-opposition-to-brett-kavanaugh-includes-churches-law-professors-and-conservatives-even-his-own-friends/
Excerpts:
“The National Council of Churches, which represents 100,000 congregations and 45 million church-goers, issued a blunt demand for Kavanaugh to step aside after his testimony. “Judge Kavanaugh exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect towards certain members of the committee and thereby demonstrated that he possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member of the highest court in our nation,” the NCC statement said. It continued, “We are deeply disturbed by the multiple allegations of sexual assault and call for a full and unhindered investigation of these accusations.”
More broadly, several thousand law professors across the country signed a letter against his nomination, stating about his testimony, “Judge Brett Kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land.” And just today, the American Bar Association notified the Senate that it was re-opening its evaluation of Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve as a result, again, of his testimony last week.
What follows is a list of people and organizations that have opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court of the United States:
- Letter signed by 2,400+ law professors
- 40 Harvard law professors
- 900 female law school faculty members
- 160 Maine lawyers and law professors
- Alaskan female attorneys
- 47 Yale faculty
- Yale Law School alumni and students
- Retired Justice John Paul Stevens
- Three former Kavanaugh clerks
- 88 Maine writers
- The National Council of Churches
- Mormon Women for Ethical Government
- America Magazine
- Kavanaugh’s former Yale classmate
- Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe
- Alumni of Georgetown Prep
- Benjamin Wittes — “I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him”
- 1,600 men in a full-page New York Times ad
- Evangelical minister Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove”