{"id":31809,"date":"2018-08-15T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31809"},"modified":"2018-08-15T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:50:38","slug":"a-political-ad-for-a-scotus-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31809","title":{"rendered":"A political ad for a SCOTUS nominee?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I thought I might have been the only American who found this strange. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine posted a pithy question on Facebook that asks: <em><span class=\"_5z6m\"><span class=\"_4a6n\">Who the hell runs an ad backing a Supreme Court nominee?<br \/>\nWhat is he, soap? Fast food?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve seen the political ad. A young law clerk who describes herself as a Democrat sings the praises of Brett Kavanaugh, who&#8217;s been nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court; if he&#8217;s approved &#8212; and he will be &#8212; Kavanaugh will fill the spot held since 1988 by Justice Anthony Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>But my friend is correct. The ad touting Kavanaugh as if he&#8217;s a partisan politician seems to cheapen the entire endeavor of senatorial confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Very strange. In my humble view.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I might have been the only American who found this strange. I was wrong. A friend of mine posted a pithy question on Facebook that asks: Who the hell runs an ad backing a Supreme Court nominee? What is he, soap? Fast food? Maybe you&#8217;ve seen the political ad. A young law clerk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A political ad for a SCOTUS nominee?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[400,7874,1424,6363],"class_list":["post-31809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-anthony-kennedy","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-donald-trump","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31811,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809\/revisions\/31811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}