Lefties Losing Their Minds: Judge that Clerked for Kavanaugh Nominated to DC Circuit Court - Granite Grok

Lefties Losing Their Minds: Judge that Clerked for Kavanaugh Nominated to DC Circuit Court

Justin Walker

While some of us shelter-in-place (not me, of course) the President continues to make appointments to fill seats in the US courts. Mr. Trump just nominated “Cory Wilson for the 5th Circuit and Justin Walker for the D.C. Circuit.”

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No one is quite sure how that will proceed in the current distancing environment, but Lefty-Activists are gearing up for at least one big fight. Justin Walker,

“…was a staunch supporter of Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination to the Supreme Court. Walker wrote in National Review that Kavanaugh was a “a steadfast and fearless supporter of religious liberty.” Likewise, in The Federalist, Walker described Kavanaugh as having “the strongest, most consistent, most fearless record of constitutional conservatism of any federal court of appeals judge in the country.”

The Left hasn’t had much success in stopping the Trump Judicial Train. America’s 45th President has more or less had his way on the matter of filling seats up and down that branch of Government. But the idea of a Kavanaugh defender sitting on the court he left to become a Supreme Court judge is too much for the snowflakes to handle.

They are opposing Walker for one reason only. Sorry, publicly investing in a campaign to oppose him for one reason. Brett Kavanaugh. The tip of their spear will be that the American Bar Association deemed him “not qualified” for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. He was appointed over their objection, which tells you how much weight it carries.

Of course, I’m not sure why there was any objection.

Walker earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Duke University in 2004 and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2009, where he served as Notes Editor on the Harvard Law Review.

Upon graduating from law school, Walker served as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then clerked for Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 2015–2019, Walker served as an associate professor at the University of Louisville School of Law, where he taught legal writing.

Sounds qualified to me despite being a lawyer and a law professor.

They are also keying in on Mitch McConnell because he knows the guy and represents Kentucky. And that’s a bit strange because when Mr. Trump ignores US Senator’s suggestions for court appointments the Left loses their mind. But when it’s McConnell, there must be some dark business at work.

I’d suggest that there is dark business at work in nearly every such recommendation regardless of the party. Appointments are opportunities to help out friends and supporters. But it is up to the Judiciary Committee and then the full Senate to vet and then vote. 

No guarantee that you’ll get a quality placement. In fact, given who their friends are, odds are just as good they suck. But when it comes to judges, so far, President Trump’s results have been well above average. And let’s be honest. If the left hates Justin Walker that much, he’s probably exactly the sort of Judge we want on the DC Circuit.

| Legal Insurrection

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