Compassionate, wise, sensible and reliable are all seemingly obvious characteristics that politicians, who are literally running an entire country of 325.7 million people, should possess. Confusingly enough, there has been an odd theme among our recently appointed leaders where nobody has these assets.

Previously a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and a staff lawyer for multiple offices of the U.S. government through nominations by George W. Bush, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on October 6th, 2018. Despite Kavanaugh being accused by three different women on three separate drunken occasions of sexual assault, the Senate voted 50-48 in approval for the new judge.