Political slander

For me, the actions and attitudes of the democratic senators before and during the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh can only be described as worse than reprehensible and it seriously discredits their position as senators. The confirmation process is not supposed to be comprised of a multitude of unsupported allegations directly from the sewer. The confirmation process is not supposed to be a hateful attempt to destroy the nominee’s reputation and his life. The democrats stated that they intended to stop the confirmation of any nominee proposed by President Trump even before the nominee’s name was known. When they were unable to discredit him in their initial attempt, they organized a slime ball campaign of lies and proceeded to transform the entire process into a disgusting travesty for the sole purpose of destroying Brett Kavanaugh. As an aside, Diane Feinstein should be referred to the ethics committee for hiding information from the confirmation process. This was definitely unethical behavior.

This is not the first time that the democrats have used gutter tactics to attempt to derail a Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation. This needs to be stopped. First of all, the purposeful disruptions of paid agitators in the gallery should not be permitted in the future. There is really only one way to stop it. There should only be senators of the committee and the nominee present in the hearings. In addition, the obvious posturing by the democratic senators for the cameras only provides a means for the democrats to corrupt the process. The news media should not be allowed to film the hearing, but should be provided a written transcript of the proceedings instead. However, the written transcript should be available for the general public in an easily accessed format to ensure that the biased reporting by the media can be discerned by the public. These changes should help to diminish the corruption of the process.

However, the slanderous allegations must be stopped, and the only way to accomplish this is to provide for severe punishment for politically based slander. Politically based slander should incur an aggravated sentence at least 5 times as severe as regular slander charges. In addition, politically based slander should also incur criminal felony perjury charges based on the attempt to lie to or mislead the senate. To prove politically based slander, one should have to prove the slander as in current slander cases plus one more fact. That fact should be that the allegation was made public after the person was nominated as a Supreme Court justice. The alleged date of the incident should not be considered in determining if the slander is politically based, only the date that the allegation was made public. Once the offender is convicted in civil court of politically based slander, then the case should automatically be referred to the proper law enforcement agency for the criminal prosecution.