By Office of U.S. Sen. John Kennedy WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) delivered his opening statement on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, September 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WjtRpAfkfI&feature=youtu.be What Sen. Kennedy is seeking in a Supreme Court justice: "I want a judge. I don’t want a politician. I am not looking for an ideologue. I’m not looking for a hater. What I am looking for is somebody who is whip smart, who is intellectually curious, who writes cleanly and crisply, who knows what a semicolon is for and who is willing to protect the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights and understands that the Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu." Anger is dividing this country: "We’ve been divided before and we’ll be divided again. We will survive this, but I confess that the division in our country today seems to be especially sharp. And what concerns me so much about the division is the basis for it. It’s not honest disagreement. So much of it is anger." Judges aren’t there to bypass the ballot: "It’s not the United States Supreme Court that’s supposed to fix this country culturally, economically, socially, … [Read more...]