Posted on 09/18/2018 7:21:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said the Democrats could keep Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court seat vacant for two years if need be should the nomination fail and should Democrats take the Senate in November.
Hirono said if a replacement for Kavanaugh needed to be found, President Trump should nominate a less conservative ideologue, or else be ready for Senate Democrats to keep the court seat vacant until after the 2020 presidential election if they win the chamber in November, according to an interview with Politico Magazine.
“I think we’ve had those kinds of vacancies before, and we certainly had over a one-year vacancy with Merrick Garland,” Hirono told Politico. “So the world does not come to an end because we don’t fill all of the nominees.”
Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was roiled when California professor Christine Blasley Ford on Sunday publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were students at neighboring D.C.-area high schools in the 1980s. Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations.
The Hawaii senator said the new allegation had cast doubts about the nominee's testimony to the Senate two weeks ago.
During the hearing, Hirono asked Kavanaugh if he had ever sexually assaulted or harassed someone as a "legal adult." He responded that he had not.
“It somewhat stretches credulity, let’s put it that way,” Hirono told Politico.. “I think he didn’t want to lie about it, so one way you get through that is saying, ‘I don’t remember.’”
Hirono also called the allegations against Kavanaugh serious, even if was 17 years old at the time of the alleged incident.
“Seventeen is not exactly a baby, either," Hirono said. "These are serious allegations. She has a very credible story. I believe her. And now we have to do more than say, ‘Well, look at the timing!’ and ‘Well, it’s all politically motivated!’"
"This has to be taken seriously," she said.
Kavanaugh and his accuser are set to testify publicly on Monday.
The democrat poll with Shalala up 4 has a supposedly conservative pro-Trump independent candidate polling at an implausibly high 8%.
Both polls show Shalala, who doesn’t even speak Spanish, getting obliterated in the Hispanic vote and leading among non-Hispanics.
Curbelo says non-Cuban Hispanics are the key swing voters and they know Maria Salazar from TV.
The Four Cuckateers (Flakey, Corkscrewed, Tom Collins & MurKowSki) are all on record now as saying “vote” if she won’t show up.
Game.Set. Match.
Electoral extermination is necessary.
I was wondering about the “Bradley Effect” myself in both FL & GA. Gillum is an unabashed Communist and a crook. The lady in GA is grossly incompetent, cannot manage her own finances, and is likely being secretly bankrolled by Soros.
Of course, if they won, they’d be so massively unpopular because of their radical, corrupt and evil agenda, that there wouldn’t be another Democrat elected statewide for 20 years.
I’m watching the news on Hawaiian television and they are loving them some Hirono, delighting in her actions.
Trump indicating he is fed up and will drain the swamp himself if these people don’t get in gear. If we hold the House in the midterms, watch out!
And we will be there with him.... these fools need to go
I think the Ds went all in on Judge K because they want to manufacture outrage within their own base to try to get them to the polls in November. Everyone talks about how difficult it is to get the Rs to the polls in midterms, I suspect that the Democrats have their own problems on that score and these manufactured outrages are more designed to get wacko Left to come out in November to vote for people that don’t excite THEIR crazy base.
Agree. They want the victim status and you will be robbed meme going into November.
they could care less what they are doing to fairness, including the accuser..
Zen Master, who has yet to be wrong on matters of the court, says she’s absolutely in the next 2-3 finalists. My guess is it will be her, a “woman for a woman.”
Cavanaugh now, and Amy next when Ruth B takes the final nap
That's exactly what I've been thinking, as the democRATs have been trying to Bork Judge K with this ridiculous 'sexual assault' allegation.
Anybody ever listen to this nut speak? Crazy Maizie is as dumb as a box of rocks...
A lot of great news in this post, FRiend. Thanks!
Great news. Thanks.
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