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Dr. Alan Keyes In effect, however, this priority increased the political capital of certain senators known to favor the perpetuation of the Supreme Court's anti-American abortion jurisprudence. Senator Collins made it clear that she voted to confirm Judge Kavanaugh because his record makes it reasonable to assume that he will follow Justice Kennedy's path in that regard. The evidence in Judge Kavanaugh's record makes it more likely than not that she is right. If so, the elitist totalitarians who mean to enforce specious "abortion rights" advanced their cause, no matter what. Notwithstanding the Blasey Ford diversion, moral conservatives need to face the fact that we cannot assume Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation fulfills President Donald Trump's stated intention to appoint Supreme Court Justices "in the mold of Scalia." Though he never deployed the principled arguments that best refute it, Justice Scalia consistently refused to join in Justice Kennedy's complicity with the anti-American abortion regime. Will Justice Kavanaugh imitate that refusal? Like Susan Collins, I am inclined to think that he will not. What makes the pro-abortion senator comfortable makes me fear that Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for people like me. We pray for the day when the Supreme Court's effort to enforce licentious freedom upon our nation will be reversed. We pray for an outcome which confirms that, as a nation, we are on our way toward restoring the unalienably righteous character we require to prove and maintain the individual and national self-government that is our true liberty, and that of all humankind. (Kavanaugh's Confirmation — A Pyrrhic Victory?)

And when neither sun nor stars appears for many a day, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. As they had been long without food, Paul then came forward among them and said, "Men you should have listened to me, and should not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss." (Acts 27: 20–21)

By the time the U.S. Senate voted to approve President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, some authentically pro-life senators may have felt they had no choice but to cast a vote that denied success to the Democrat Party's blatant perversion of due process. So, however reluctantly, they voted against the conclusion (probable, given his record) that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would side with that party's rabidly unjust, anti-God, anti-American commitment to oxymoronic idea of lawful child-murder.



In the article quoted above, I concurred in and, with good reasoning, sought to justify their sense that the Democrats' attack on Kavanaugh aimed to subvert the constitutional safeguards intended to secure all Americans against government abuse. However, I could not dismiss the possibility that the elitist faction leaders of the party of the Culture of Death staged the whole ugly business to cement the prospect of Kavanaugh's approval. With apologies to Shakespeare, I would adapt his phrase: Methinks abortion cultists did protest too much.

Of course, I was not the only one to entertain this suspicion. Now comes the news that "newly seated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's progressive wing on Monday in declining to review three cases centered on Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level." Though I think killing nascent children more barbaric than progressive, this report does nothing to dispel my serious doubts about Justice Kavanaugh's commitment to the right to life, with which all human beings are endowed by their creator from the moment of their conception in the mind of His God, His father.

The legalists remind us that the Supreme Court refusal to hear a case may postpone, rather than decide, the issue. Perhaps some better opportunity is waiting in the wings, more directly involving the crime of abortion itself. But, given his record, I have to give weight to Justice Clarence Thomas's words, pointing to the fact that the refusal "has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood.'"

With St. Paul's example (noted above) as my guide, I won't say that I dislike having to say, "I told you so." But at the moment, the facts don't warrant that statement. Given the irrational tempest the death cultists stirred against him, Justice Kavanaugh may wish to keep his powder dry — against the moment when cases directly involving the issue of American constitutional principle, as well as law, are in his sights. I would advise those, like myself, who are skeptical of his pro-life commitment to do the same.

Though I think killing nascent children more barbaric than progressive, this report does nothing to dispel my serious doubts about Justice Kavanaugh's commitment to the right to life.

If the hope for justice good people (including President Trump) vested in Justice Kavanaugh must be dashed, why isn't later better than now? The postponement gives more time for the prayers of the faithful to rise to Heaven. In these days of apostasy in high places, they are perhaps offered more widely and earnestly than ever — despite the devilish view that our nation's conscientious liberty no longer has a prayer. With Christ as our advocate, and our nascent posterity as His intended wards, His strategy against bad judgment may even now prove true:

And he told a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said: In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man: and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying: "Vindicate me against my adversary." For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, "though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will ear me out by her continual coming." And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate the elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth." (Luke 18:1–8)

Dr. Alan Keyes served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under President Ronald Reagan, and ran for president in 1996, 2000 and 2008. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard, and writes at his website Loyal to Liberty

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