Bishop Peter Jugis is asking all of us in the diocese to “reach out to U.S. Senators about the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.”
The point of this outreach is for us to apply pressure to North Carolina Senators Burr and Tillis to approve this nomination because Kavanaugh (almost certainly) does not support Roe v. Wade.
If we step back a minute and look at the bigger picture, however, no Supreme Court Justice nomination should be considered until the Special Counsel’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections and related matters is finished. This is especially true regarding Judge Kavanaugh, as it has been reported that he believes a sitting president should not be held accountable for any unethical activities or crimes he commits.
To approve Judge Kavanaugh, one must agree that the president is above the law. I hope that we all disagree with that view.
Larry Heyl lives in Asheville.