Category: Supreme Court

Kavanaugh update 10/3/18

 

“Trump says it’s not ‘acceptable’ if Kavanaugh lied in testimony”

This is so ironic. I think Kavanaugh lied to Congress but Trump has told thousands of lies.  He’s the last one to talk about someone else lying.

Kavanaugh update 10/1/18

Here’s my opinion:

Republicans intend to ram the nomination through and probably will succeed.  The investigation, which will not be complete, will not provide any concrete evidence showing that Dr. Ford’s story is true. It appears that nobody else recalls the event but I can’t believe she would make it up and put herself and her family through hell.  I believe her but there is no blue dress like there was with Monica Lewinsky.  Republicans don’t care about the truth.  They tried to limit the investigation until they were exposed.  They have still placed a phony time limit on it.  Haste is more important than learning the facts to them.  They’ll just say that Judge Kavanaugh is telling the truth since we can’t prove that Dr. Ford is.  There is also the issue of the other accusers – are they lying too?  I doubt it.  Trump is defending him like he defends all men accused of sexual assault if they’re Republicans or work for Fox News.

I would vote against Judge Kavanaugh for lots of reasons.  He is clearly lying about the definitions of slang words and his drinking habits.  I used to drink a lot of beer and I have had at least one instance where I had so much beer that I didn’t recall things.  I was in my 40s.  Over the next several days, people told me things I said that I didn’t recall but I am sure they were telling the truth.

I think Judge Kavanaugh is lying about his beer consumption.  Other people who knew him then say that.  I think he is concerned that admitting to drinking to much would imply blackouts and that the assault on Dr. Ford happened but that he doesn’t remember it.

I am also concerned about his extremely partisan views expressed at the hearing where he attacked Democrats.  Do you think he could be objective if a Democratic governor sued the Trump administration?  I don’t.  If he is approved, this is another bad step towards making the Court a completely partisan operation, no different from the other branches of government.

Now for some tweets

 

Where Kavanaugh’s testimony was misleading or wrong

How about all the money spent to support Kavanaugh?

Kavanaugh complained today about a political hit fueled by “….millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.”

How about all of the millions spent to support him?

Washington Post

 

update 10/2/18:

Ads push Manchin and Heitkamp to vote for Kavanaugh

update 10/7

money spent on both sides

54% of Republicans think Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if Ford allegations are true

That’s disgusting.  Republicans (starting at the top) don’t care about sexual assault.

The poll was taken before today’s hearing.

Republicans can’t talk about making the Kavanaugh hearing political

At least Kavanaugh got a hearing.  That’s more than Garland got.

Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat.  I have no sympathy for them.

If Democrats created all these allegations against Kavanaugh for political purposes (which I don’t think happened), which didn’t they do the same thing to Gorsuch last year?

Republicans do not take sexual harassment as seriously as Democrats do. Democrats got Franken to leave the Senate without even a hearing.  Republicans elected Trump president.  I am sure there are dozens of Republican senators who would vote for Kavanaugh even if they think he’s guilty.

I can’t imagine why Ford would put herself through this if her allegations weren’t true.  Who wants death threats?

Important Supreme Court case

Right now, Trump could pardon people for federal crimes but they could still be charged by a state.

 

 

Kavanaugh vote scheduled for Friday

The Republicans just want to push the nomination through.  This shows they don’t take the Thursday hearings seriously.