The entire mainstream legal profession tells the Senate: Don't put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell trolled the nation Thursday morning in a floor statement in which he said "Brett Kavanaugh is stunningly and totally qualified for this job." The job is a seat on the Supreme Court, and Brett Kavanaugh is the nominee who the legal establishment has roundly declared totally not qualified.

From Harvard Law School (which cancelled the class Kavanaugh was scheduled to teach) to the American Bar Association to thousands of law professors, the legal profession has made it clear that this is not a man who should serve on the highest court of the land for life. The nearly 1,000 law professors publicly opposing Kavanaugh that Jen Hayden highlighted on Wednesday now number more than 1,700—and counting.

"We regret that we feel compelled to write to you, our Senators," the 1,700-plus law professors write, "to provide our views that at the Senate hearings on Sept. 27, Judge Brett Kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land."

More than 900 and counting women law school faculty have signed onto a separate letter that has circulated since Monday night. "Our goal is for the Senate to take its obligation to the American public seriously," says Kathleen Engel, a research professor at Suffolk University Law School, one of the organizers of the letter. "It is really a tragedy for the country and it threatens our democracy to have such a politicized process and to have a candidate who is really taking politics into the courtroom as a judge."

"Judge Kavanaugh's lack of respect for our democratic institutions, and for women in positions of power in particular, revealed that he does not have the requisite judicial temperament," the letter reads in part. "We would never allow our students to engage in such conduct even in mock proceedings in the classroom," the letter continues. "If the venue for Judge Kavanaugh's conduct had been a courtroom, a judge might have found him in contempt."