Justice Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing *DISCUSSION AND LIVE COMMENTARY*

[KingSweden]

Kavanaugh would be a stain on the supreme court. Trump  should give up on this far right ass clown and try to appoint Hardiman instead.

The far righters on this forum don't seem to understand that the Supreme Court is not a little game where you just throw any wild judicial activist to grandstand. It's an extremely important instiution and it deserves only the best nominees.

Hardiman would have been so much better

[KingSweden]

I'm not entirely convinced that Hardiman is all that great given he's Rick Santorum's top choice from the list.

While I have yet to take a position on this nomination, I will say that Trump should have just put up Kevin Newsom, who was confirmed 66-31 by this Senate to Circuit Court. Avoid the explosiveness.

I don’t know enough about Newsom to comment, really.

[KingSweden]

With the exception of the Warren court...the SCOTUS has almost always been a Conservative institution. There is no pendulum swinging back. There are plenty of examples of Conservative judicial activism in history prior to Warren...even 5 of the 7 judges who cast their vote for Roe were appointed by Republican presidents.

Ah, no.  Look at the chart again:



In the late 1970's the Court was very middle of the road, and really from 2003 it was middle of the road.  It was more liberal in the 1952-70, and in the 1930's and well into the 1940's.

The Scalia trajectory on there is interesting to say the least

[KingSweden]

What's even the point of these hearings? We know everyone's vote is already locked in regardless.

Senators love being on TV?

[KingSweden]

Worth treating this with skepticism for now. What would have happened between earlier this summer and today to warrant an FBI referral? Did Feinstein consider the allegations credulous then but credible now?

[KingSweden]

Farrow’s name being attached adds credence.

Why Feinstein sat on the letter for so long is super dumb, though.

[KingSweden]

Sorry if this was posted already but new Fox poll has confirmation approval at 40/50.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/23/fox-news-poll-record-number-voters-oppose-kavanaugh-nomination.html

That's one big difference between the Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas situations.  Even after the Anita Hill hearings, Thomas remained quite popular and polls showed that majority supported his confirmation.

TBF what BK stands accused of is much worse than the bizarre pubic hair stuff CT was up to

[KingSweden]

Pretty amazing that if Democrats were making this up just to derail a judge, Gorsuch had *none* of these kinds of accusations, right?

Interestingly Gorsuch also went to Georgetown Prep and graduated two years after Kavanaugh.

I’ve always gotten more of an introverted self-important nerd vibe from Gorsuch.

[KingSweden]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/23/second-woman-assault-kavanaugh-837678

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And this is the part in our little story where, if Mitch McConnell is smart - and supposedly he is, he would have a little chat with Jeff Flake and Bob Corker to tell them, "Hey guys, I really need you to sink the Kavanaugh nomination now. As you know, we really can't afford for the hearing with Ford to actually occur. You two are retiring. You have nothing to lose. I can't have Collins/Murkowski sink it because they'll be running for elections in the future, and the base would go ape****. But it needs to be done. You know it needs to be done. So let's go put this old, tainted dog out of its misery so that we can go find a shiny new puppy instead."

I read this in Mitch McConnell’s voice.

[KingSweden]

Avenatti's claim

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/09/23/michael-avenatti-kavanaugh-gang-rapes.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Michael Avenatti, like the National Enquirer, has a track record of backing up his allegations with sources. This is a nuclear accusation.

Damn. Avenatti is going in.

Reading the questions in his email, it looks like it's all about Judge, not Kavanaugh (and how confusing is it that a judge's friend is named Judge?)

At least it's not Judge Judge.

Justice Justice

[KingSweden]

Why couldn't Trump just nominate Hardiman? Personally, I could live with that pick, at least if this chart is instructive at all:



Although I'm taking a big leap here and thinking that he would not be too atrocious with campaign finance, voting righs and gerrymandering.

The chart is worthless. It tries to approximate ideology of a judge based on the ideology of the appointing president and the nominee's home state senators. It has nothing to do with a judge's actual behavior on the bench, and is a poor substitute for honest evaluation of a nominee's record.

Precisely. Thomas Hardiman is almost certainly not to Kennedy’s left, for example, even if he’s less conservative than some of the other choices

[KingSweden]

The Swedish Chef is now giving us the soundtrack to the Kavanaugh hearings.

“Bork, deee Bork deee Bork Bork Bork Bork!0

[KingSweden]

Sarah Sanders: WH is "open" to having Ramirez speak on Thursday. Washington Post Article

*raises eyebrow*

[KingSweden]

This article discusses the theory that the incident with Fors happened, but Kavanaugh was so drunk that he legitimately doesn't remember. Seems way more plausible than the other "nobody's lying" theory:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-alcohol-assault-allegations.html

It’s plausible.

[KingSweden]

Has anyone looked at the calendars from the summer of '82 that Kav's attorney submitted to the Senate committee this morning as "supporting evidence" that he was not there?

I noticed he saw both Grease 2 and Poltergeist in the theaters.

Nomination must be withdrawn immediately

[KingSweden]

Sign of seriousness: door was opened to withdrawing Kavanaugh

[KingSweden]

Can someone give me a TL;DW on what he said?

“Trump is awesome, Trump is smart, I’m good at deals, XYZ is horrible, nobody has seen anything like it before, but we’ll see what happens.”

[KingSweden]

Can someone give me a TL;DW on what he said?

“Trump is awesome, Trump is smart, I’m good at deals, XYZ is horrible, nobody has seen anything like it before, but we’ll see what happens.”

Wow, that’s spot on.

It was in live in the office so I had exposure to the whole thing