{"id":61105,"date":"2018-10-05T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61105"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:07:44","slug":"kavanaugh-last-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61105","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh, last chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; between the cloture vote and the final Senate nomination vote on Judge Kavanaugh for the USSC, a moral moment ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two to be read in counterpoint:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Brett Kavanaugh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/i-am-an-independent-impartial-judge-1538695822\">I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge<\/a>\n<li><strong>Brett Kavanaugh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3383&#038;context=lawreview\">The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Judge <strong>Kavanaugh<\/strong>&#8216;s extended description of the function of the <strong>judge as umpire<\/strong> deserves its place right alongside his recent op-ed <strong>apologia <\/strong>and <strong>apology<\/strong> &#8212; indeed it&#8217;s interesting to see <strong>an apology within an apologia<\/strong>, which, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apologia_Pro_Vita_Sua\">as Cardinal <strong>Newman<\/strong> well knew<\/a>, is not inherently about apologizing but an <strong>apologia pro vita sua<\/strong> or [proactive] defence of one&#8217;s own life &#8212; both as an expanded sports and politics metaphor, and as an <strong>urgent indicator<\/strong> within which to frame his op-ed.<\/p>\n<p>Now is decision time: consider these two in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>With Sens. Collins&#8217; and Manchin&#8217;s Yes votes now declared shortly after I posted the above, the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seems all but assurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; between the cloture vote and the final Senate nomination vote on Judge Kavanaugh for the USSC, a moral moment ] . Two to be read in counterpoint: Brett Kavanaugh, I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge Brett Kavanaugh, The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles ** Judge Kavanaugh&#8216;s extended description of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,526,627,378,1284,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-senate","category-supreme-court","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61117,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions\/61117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}