Political Quotes

“Now I would like to pivot to what would ordinarily be a subject unrelated to sports--the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court--but this is no ordinary nomination. Not only is Judge Kavanaugh an avid sports fan, he also moonlighted as a sports reporter for the Yale Daily News. For Democrats looking to evaluate Judge Kavanaugh on the basis of documents other than his judicial record, his writings about college sports are apparently a gold mine. Take, for example, Kavanaugh's account of a midseason game between Yale and Cornell: ``In basketball, as in few other team sports, it is possible for one person to completely dominate a game.'' Prominent legal scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor and adviser to Barack Obama--a friend of mine, actually--strained to make a connection between this casual observation and Judge Kavanaugh's judicial philosophy. He noted: ``Kavanaugh's seeming fascination with single-player domination might be a muscular view of executive power.'' I had a good laugh at this. The idea that Judge Kavanaugh's observations about basketball somehow reveal his views about Executive power is beyond absurd. What is next? What other hidden insights into the nominee's character can we glean from the most obscure sources? Should we do a deep dive on Judge Kavanaugh's zodiac sign to see what it might say about his judicial temperament? He is an Aquarius, by the way, and Mars is in retrograde.…”