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Anonymous ID: b22e7a Sept. 4, 2018, 9:39 a.m. No.2873392   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3439 >>3481

JON KYL TAKING NO NAME'S SENATE SEAT:

 

per Fox News just now - no newspaper links yet

 

Jon Llewellyn Kyl (/ˈkaɪl/; born April 25, 1942)[1] is an American attorney and politician. From 1995 to 2013, he served with John McCain as a United States Senator from Arizona and as Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership. He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm Covington & Burling.[2] Following John McCain's death in August of 2018, Jon Kyl was announced as McCain's replacement until the 2020 general election.

 

The son of U.S. Representative John Henry Kyl, he was born and raised in Nebraska and lived for some time in Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Arizona. He worked in Phoenix, Arizona as a lawyer and lobbyist before winning election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1987 to 1995. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and continued to be re-elected by large margins until his retirement.

 

In 2006, he was recognized by Time magazine as one of America's Ten Best Senators.[3] Kyl was ranked by National Journal in 2007 as the fourth-most conservative U.S. Senator.[4] He has been a fixture of Republican policy leadership posts, chairing the Republican Policy Committee (2003–2007) and the Republican Conference (2007). In December 2007, he became Senate Minority Whip. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 for his persuasive role in the Senate.[5]

 

In February 2011, Kyl announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2012 and would retire at the end of his third term,[6] which concluded on January 3, 2013. He expressly ruled out running for further office except, if offered, the Vice Presidency.[7]

Anonymous ID: b22e7a Sept. 4, 2018, 10:11 a.m. No.2873813   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3836

SENATOR CRUZ MAKING COMMENTS AT JUDGE KAVANAUGH’S CONFIRMATION HEARING:

 

In 2014, every Demo member of this Committee voted to amend the US Constitution to repeal the Free Speech provisions of the First Amendment. Sadly, every Demo in the Senate agreed with that position – voting to give Congress unprecedented power to regulate political speech.

 

Religious Liberty another fundamental protection. Demo colleagues want justices who will rubber stamp efforts like the Obama administration’s efforts litigating against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Litigating against Catholic nuns trying to force them to pay for abortion inducting drugs and others.

 

Every single Senate Democrat, just a few years ago voted to gut the Religious Freedom restoration Act. Legislation that passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support in 1993 was signed into law by Bill Clinton, and yet two decades later the Demo party has determined that religious freedom is inconvenient for their policy and political objectives.

 

Let’s take the Second Amendment, in the Presidential debates Hellary Clinton explicitly promised to nominate justices who would overturn Heller v. District of Columbia, a landmark decision issued by Justice Scalia likely the most significant decision in his entire tenure on the bench and it upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. Hellary wanted judges who would vote to overturn Heller and a number of our Demo colleagues that’s what they want, as well.

 

Overturning Heller would be a truly radical proposition. To understand why, you would have to understand what the four dissenters in Heller said. The four dissenters said the Second Amendment protects no individual’s rights to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it protects merely a collective right of the militia. It would mean that Congress could pass a law making it a felony, a criminal offense for any American to own a firearm. It would effectively erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights. It is what Hellary Clinton promised her justices would do and at the end of the day, it’s what this fight is about.

 

We know that every Demo member of this Committee is going to vote no. We don’t have to speculate. Every single one of them has publicly announced that they’re voting no. Doesn’t depend on what they read in documents; doesn’t depend on what Judge Kavanaugh says at this hearing. They announced ahead of time they are voting no.