Supreme Court Nominee #3

[BayouBelle_LA]

Opinion | The Kavanaugh hearings were another rumbling of the volcano. And the left can’t hear it.

Though Donald Trump is not anyone’s idea of a conventional president, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is not only extraordinarily qualified but also a deeply conventional choice. So when arguments about process failed, that part of the left that demands power above all other things turned to character assassination.

A vast swath of the public has concluded that the Democrats sat on an explosive charge until the last minute, and they imagine themselves being ambushed that way at work. They don’t want their daughters and sons to live in a society where allegation is conviction.

Toss in Michael Avenatti, and a New Yorker article that no other reputable news platform would stand behind as meeting their standards for reporting, and the volcano erupts because Kavanaugh — a thoroughly decent man, an obviously good man — was slimed.

Media elites locked inside “blue bubble” newsrooms don’t see, hear or feel it. Just as they didn’t see, hear, or feel the 2016 volcano’s rumblings either.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

How Jeff Flake's One-Week Delay Helped Clear Brett Kavanaugh's Name

Republican senator Susan Collins of Maine, a key undecided vote, said this morning: "It appears to be a very thorough investigation.”

Senator Flake told reporters: “We’ve seen no additional corroborating information.”

By all indications, the additional FBI investigation has been good for Kavanaugh.

Let’s also consider the other ways in which the week-long delay helped Kavanaugh clear his name.

Yes, Flake says it all without saying it:

Senator Flake told reporters: “We’ve seen no additional corroborating information.”

Corroborating evidence already exists.

Thanks, Bayou!

 

[Hope4More]

Opinion | The Kavanaugh hearings were another rumbling of the volcano. And the left can’t hear it.

Though Donald Trump is not anyone’s idea of a conventional president, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is not only extraordinarily qualified but also a deeply conventional choice. So when arguments about process failed, that part of the left that demands power above all other things turned to character assassination.

A vast swath of the public has concluded that the Democrats sat on an explosive charge until the last minute, and they imagine themselves being ambushed that way at work. They don’t want their daughters and sons to live in a society where allegation is conviction.

Toss in Michael Avenatti, and a New Yorker article that no other reputable news platform would stand behind as meeting their standards for reporting, and the volcano erupts because Kavanaugh — a thoroughly decent man, an obviously good man — was slimed.

Media elites locked inside “blue bubble” newsrooms don’t see, hear or feel it. Just as they didn’t see, hear, or feel the 2016 volcano’s rumblings either.

Right on cue. Hugh never fails to advocate for the money & power elite, at the expense of everyone else.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Yes, Flake says it all without saying it:

Senator Flake told reporters: “We’ve seen no additional corroborating information.”

Corroborating evidence already exists.

Thanks, Bayou!

Are you saying that Senator Flake is lying?

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Are you saying that Senator Flake is lying?

What?

He literally admitted that corroborating evidence already exists without literally having to say it.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

What?

He literally admitted that corroborating evidence already exists without literally having to say it.

I thought witnesses saying that Kavanaugh was seen by them drinking at party's was corroboration. JMO

 

[Hope4More]

To those who want K confirmed: I wouldn't count on Flake just yet. He apparently isn't on board yet, though some of his repub colleagues are working him over, and, he told a reporter for the Atlantic that he would be getting together with Senator Coons tonight for a long discussion.

Meanwhile, repub politicos are advising that the repubs would do better this fall in both House & Senate races if K withdrew, rather than if he was confirmed (which I've thought & posted all along).

 

[Jax49]

Retired Justice John Paul Stevens calls Kavanaugh's temperament disqualifying: 'Senators should pay attention to this'

“I thought [Kavanaugh] had the qualifications for the Supreme Court, should he be selected,” Stevens said at a closed event held by a retirement group in Boca Raton, according to The Palm Beach Post. “I’ve changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability … I feel his performance in the hearings ultimately changed my mind.”

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

I thought witnesses saying that Kavanaugh was seen by them drinking at party's was corroboration. JMO

Uh, exactly. Many parts of the allegations, including many depicting Kavanaugh as untruthful, have been corroborated.

?

 

[Hope4More]

Senator Murkowski has issued a special invitation to the 180 sexual assault survivors who flew to DC from Alaska to speak to her: they are invited to sit in the Senate Chamber for the cloture vote on Kavanaugh.

As one of those survivors said- "why would she invite us if she was going to vote Yes?"

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

To those who want K confirmed: I wouldn't count on Flake just yet. He apparently isn't on board yet, though some of his repub colleagues are working him over, and, he told a reporter for the Atlantic that he would be getting together with Senator Coons tonight for a long discussion.

Meanwhile, repub politicos are advising that the repubs would do better this fall in both House & Senate races if K withdrew, rather than if he was confirmed (which I've thought & posted all along).

Kavanaugh doesn't need Flake's vote if he gets all of the other Republicans.

I think republicans will do just fine in the fall because of Kavanaugh. Most people don't want to be convicted without due process. And I think a lot of folks like beer.

 

[Elley Mae]

What?

He literally admitted that corroborating evidence already exists without literally having to say it.

Do you have a link to him saying that?

Because I have not heard or seen it.

 

[Hope4More]

Senator Corey Gardner is now reported to perhaps be a wee wobbly on voting yes for K.

2,200 law professors & practicing attorneys (some in front of the SC), the ACLU, the ABA, and Justice Stevens saying NO!; multiple newspapers that matter to the political elite editorializing NO!; Harvard cutting K off from teaching there because students won't allow him back; Yale law faculty now calling on the Senate to launch a perjury investigation; women voters- & not just dems- spitting, fired up angry & out in the streets; credible & inner power circle peeps stepping forward to collaborate Ramirez's claims & K's direct interference with witnesses...

These are the things that would make any rational elected rep who isn't in a 99% gerrymandered district take a deep breath, at the very least.

 

[Rocco]

Do you mean the grotesque, even nauseating letter by him just posted in the WSJ?

The one in which he takes no responsibility for his ugly, unhinged, partisan outburst? Those words he had written down the night BEFORE?!

And even now, he has the gall to hide behind the women & girls he trots out - his wife & daughters & mother, even girls he has coached- as he AGAIN, in a supposed apology, attacks Dr. Ford & Ms. Ramirez.

That isn't an apology; it is more evidence he is absolutely unfit to sit on the SC.

Here's the letter:
Opinion | I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge
ETA: I don't think his intention in the letter was an apology.

 

[Elley Mae]

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) — two decisive Republican votes — indicated Thursday that the additional FBI probe was adequate, although they both cautioned they would continue to read the closely held report. Flake also told reporters that “we’ve seen no additional corroborating information” to bolster the allegation from Christine Blasey Ford, who in emotional testimony last week said that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.

Satisfying Flake and Collins, as well as a third Republican, Lisa Murkowski, would be enough to confirm Kavanaugh. The senator from Alaska, facing pressure from Native Americans in her state, has not said how she will vote.

Kavanaugh moves closer to Senate confirmation as GOP argues FBI report exonerates the judge

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Kavanaugh doesn't need Flake's vote if he gets all of the other Republicans.

I think republicans will do just fine in the fall because of Kavanaugh. Most people don't want to be convicted without due process. And I think a lot of folks like beer.

Well said. I think people can relate to the unfair attacks and that will hurt the democrats in the mid-terms.

 

[Elley Mae]

I know one thing, I never doubted him.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Do you have a link to him saying that?

Because I have not heard or seen it.

What?

Please follow the thread back to its source. You'll find your answer.

 

[Elley Mae]

Don’t forget Joe.

Last undecided Democrat Joe Manchin still reviewing FBI’s Kavanaugh report

Last undecided Democrat Joe Manchin still reviewing FBI’s Kavanaugh report

 

[Elley Mae]

What Democrats have said about an FBI Supplemental Background Investigation:

“It will not take a “tremendous amount of time,” but it is necessary if you truly want the facts to be known.” –Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
“It will only take a few days.” –Sen. Chuck Schumer
“The FBI has ample resources to do this within the 1-week period requested by the members of the Judiciary Committee. No one is asking that it take longer than a week …” – Sen. Chuck Schumer
“I have proposed and talked to some of my colleagues, and I know others have as well, about a finite period for an FBI investigation, maybe a week. George H.W. Bush ordered that in the Anita Hill case, a three-day investigation. That happened.” – Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
“I think I'm satisfied. … This is a very small universe of witnesses here and a very big FBI.” – Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
“And I have conveyed to my friends and colleagues that I had wished we would take a one-week pause, one week only.” –Sen.Chris Coons (D-DE)

Senate Judiciary Committee Receives Supplemental Background Investigation File on Kavanaugh Nomination | Chuck Grassley