Damn straight:
A Kentucky lawyer nominated to fill a vacancy on the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrote blog posts under a pseudonym that equated abortion with slavery, questioned climate change and denounced gay marriage.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate - including Ohio's Sherrod Brown - argue that Louisville attorney John K. Bush's controversial statements should block him from becoming a judge on the Cincinnati-based federal court, which hears cases from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Writing under the name "G. Morris" on the Elephants in the Bluegrassblog, Bush wrote posts that suggested someone "should gag" then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, criticized the State Department for modifying passport application forms to account for the possibility of same-sex parents, and commented on a protest by nude women at the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland.
"You know Trump is onto something huge when he causes people to shed their underwear," Bush wrote. "Not even Ron Paul could pull that off."
In a Wednesday speech on the U.S. Senate floor, Brown criticized Bush for advocating "extreme political views" on health care, campaign finance, climate change and LGBT rights, and for citing "white supremacist" sources that pushed the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States.
"Mr. Bush is entitled to his political opinions, no matter how offensive," said Brown. "But those opinions have no place on a federal court whose job it is to interpret law fairly and impartially."
Well said. By the way, Brown is going to be pushing Trump to put up or shut up on this campaign promise:
Ohio’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown plans to meet with President Trump’s trade representativetomorrow to talk about the starting points for the U.S. renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
One of Brown’s chief concerns is an obscure part of trade law that allows multinational corporations to sue countries over regulations such as labor standards -- in special overseas tribunals.
“I want to see them be more aggressive on the investor-state dispute settlement. It still gives too much negotiating power to the largest corporations who have been notorious for outsourcing jobs and depressing wages. I want to get to the bottom of why they haven’t addressed that as aggressively as I would have liked.
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