Hi, this is Jim Denison with Tendison Forum, and this is the Daily

Article for Tuesday, July 10, 2018. In what CNN called a Supreme Court pick for the ages,

President Trump is nominated a D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme

Court. Judge Kavanaugh is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerk for Anthony Kennedy.

He also served as a lawyer for White House Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr, and a staff secretary for President George W. Bush.

Mr. Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley have two daughters, an active Roman Catholic.

He volunteers for the Meals program at Catholic Charities and

has tutored at the Washington Jesuit Academy. He continues to coach girls' basketball teams

and has completed the Boston Marathon twice. And accepting the President's nomination, Judge

Kavanaugh stated, a judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

Given a significance to the ideological balance of the court,

the New York Times predicts an epic confirmation battle ahead.

Opponents are already running ads in the states of key senators and planning procedural delays.

Now is the time for hardball, according to one liberal activist.

The Supreme Court of the United States produces nothing but words. It doesn't manufacture

products or build homes or heal the sick. Its nine justices communicate ideas conveyed in

rulings, but these rulings can change the nation. The Supreme Court

infamously declared that blacks were not and could never become citizens of the U.S. in

the Dred Scott case of 1857. Conversely, it abolished segregation in public schools

in 1954. It protected an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with military

service. It upheld the right of corporations to spend money on political campaigns. It declared

laws prohibiting sodomy to be unconstitutional and legalized same-sex marriage. It legalized

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