The Selection Process

When I published How to Select an American President by James A. George and James A. Rodger (c) 2017 Archway Publishing, the book describes a systematic process for evaluating presidential candidate resumes. It is intended to assist average citizens in making better choices. The process easily applies to the selecting of Members of the House of Representatives and Senators. It is based on knowing the job and the skill, knowledge, and experience requirements. Since political parties fail to establish standards for the process and since the US Constitution is deliberately skimpy in qualifications, more information is needed to guide voters. 

Today, we are witnessing how Senators evaluate judicial candidates. The process should be transparent, but that depends on the integrity of the Chairman and committee doing the evaluating. Now, the Republican-led Senate is trying to rush the process and to limit the amount of information available for evaluation. In the instance of the judicial candidate Kavanaugh, the Senate leaders tried to limit the time Senators from both parties had to evaluate 42,000 pages of information describing Judge Kavanagh's record and history.  It is a deliberate attempt to conceal his record.

In the final days before the Kavanaugh vote in the Senate, a woman came forward alleging his sexual abuse as a teenage student that she believes threatened her life. Without intervention by another person, she believes she would have been raped and possibly killed in the process.

This circumstance highlights another aspect in evaluating candidates for public office, and that is the character of the individual. I address character as a criterion in my book and encourage all American voters to read it.

"Kavanaugh furor intensifies as calls for new testimony grow
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 09/17/18 02:06 PM EDT" 

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/407047-kavanaugh-furor-intensifies-as-calls-for-new-testimony-grow?userid=23145

"In an act of courage, the survivor who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault came forward publicly this weekend. 

One thing we already know about Kavanaugh is that he has no credibility, based on his false statements under oath and his apparent willingness to mislead senators and say ANYTHING to get confirmed. However, his accuser's story is credible -- so credible, in fact, that since she came forward, nearly all of the women who had signed a letter of support for Kavanaugh in the face of the initial anonymous allegations have retracted their support. 

That letter, released last week by Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, was signed by 65 women who supposedly have known Kavanaugh since high school, but now that more details of the story are out -- including the name of the survivor -- almost all of those women have decided not to stand by their defense of the nominee's character." 

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh

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