Lisa Murkowski, the republican Senator from Hawaii stood tall as a member of the republican controlled Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. She voted against cutting off debate that her party was successful at doing, and then she opposed the confirmation of Kavanaugh when the full Senate cast their vote which approved the appointment.
As the lone republican Senator to oppose Kavanaugh she towered over her remaining male republican Senators who all voted yes and had the wisdom to use the judicial reason to do so. After listening to Kavanaugh's hysterical testimony on Sept. 27 before the committee and his alleged claim against the democrats and the Clintons, Senator Murkowski referred her colleges to Rule 1.2, the code of judicial conduct and said Kavanaugh did not meet the standard. This writer believes Kavanaugh's testimony failed the test of being impartial and lacks the temperament to seek the truth which comes with the responsibility of a judge.
Senator Murkowski did not feel the need to use Dr. Ford's testimony one way or the other to make her decision. She knew what the judicial test was and why it mattered and was established and based her decision to oppose the Kavanaugh nomination on that basis. The Senator represented her state and the nation with character and integrity. Her republican colleges just wanted to confirm Kavanaugh for the political reasons of ideology and their leadership took the position that they would confirm Kavanaugh no matter what.
Yes, the lady Senator from Hawaii was a true lady. And she is also a better person than her republican colleges. And that really says it all.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
