Another brick in the wall

Cheeto Jesus' disregard for the rule of law and its place in American jurisprudence were on full display last night as he plucked yet another right wingnut judge from the circuit court system to fill Anthony Kennedy's seat on the Supreme Court.  Brett Kavanaugh is a 53 year old republican party partisan who was part of Ken Starr's penis hunt in the 90s.   He also fought for and celebrated the Bush vs. Gore ruling which installed the Shrub in the Oval Office.  You can expect him to hold the president* has virtually unlimited power and cannot be investigated or indicted while in office.  Voter suppression, gerrymandering and other non democratic means of holding onto power will also get favorable rulings.  As one pundit put it, it's exactly what you would expect from any republican president and that is the problem.  As a shrinking minority party, the GOP can no longer pretend it holds American democratic values dear.  It has devolved into a party which will attempt to hold onto power by any means, even collusion with a foreign power.  Kavanaugh is merely a symptom of this disease.