As SCOTUS confirmation process nears, Sen. Johnson confident

There’s bound to be a fight over U.S Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when confirmation hearings start in Washington next month.

Those hearings have now been scheduled to start Sept. 4.

In recent comments on the confirmation process, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said opponents will have a hard time derailing a Kavanaugh confirmation.

“Wonderful family. Man of faith. Involved in his community,” Johnson said of Kavanaugh. “He’s a volunteer. And solid on the law. And he’s a judge.”

Johnson says Kavanaugh, a federal appeals judge for the last 12 years, can be trusted to stay within the confines of his judicial role, rather than engaging in activism or legislation from the bench.

“People President Trump are nominating are judges,” Johnson said. “They’re not judicial activist. They’re not super legislatures. They’re judges.

“And they’re going to apply the law, not alter it. They’re going to interpret the law, not make it. That’s what I’m looking for.”

But, if you want indication there’s going to be a fight over the confirmation of Kavanaugh, look no further than the battle over simply how documents related to his time working in the White House were released.

Johnson, however, said he has “a fair amount of confidence” that Kavanaugh will be confirmed because Democrats won’t have enough votes in the senate to block it. Nor should they, he added, because Kavanaugh’s a judge who will stick to his job.

“I realize that judge is going to make rulings I’m not going to like because he’s going to be applying law that I don’t like, that I don’t agree with,” Johnson claimed. “But, he’s going to be applying the law and that’s all that I expect out of a judge.”

Trump opponents hoped to delay the confirmation process until after national elections in November with the hope that Democrats might be able to flip the Senate at that time.