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Hirono: Dems could keep SCOTUS seat vacant for two years
The Hill ^ | 09/18/18 | Emily Birnbaum

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: abortion; amyconeybarrett; brettkavanaugh; california; calstatefullerton; christineblaseyford; democrap; hawaii; kavanaugh; lyinglimolib; maga; maziehirono; scotus; supremecourt
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1 posted on 09/18/2018 7:21:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

hirono exposes Dim playbook - usual overreach


2 posted on 09/18/2018 7:23:34 AM PDT by avital2
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To: yesthatjallen

She’s an idiot. A very old idiot....................


3 posted on 09/18/2018 7:24:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: yesthatjallen

No, they won’t.

In two years, Trump is VERY likely to have two MORE USSC justices replacing the corpse Buzzi and Breyer.


4 posted on 09/18/2018 7:24:17 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats offer nothing of substance. They are like 2 year olds


5 posted on 09/18/2018 7:24:49 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: yesthatjallen

“Bi-partisanship”

Democrat style


6 posted on 09/18/2018 7:25:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe Dems can be extinct in two years; well maybe not since there are too many idiots that keep voting for them including illegals and grannie who died a Republican and is now voting Democrat.


7 posted on 09/18/2018 7:26:51 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: yesthatjallen

Senate Republicans and Never Trumpers seem quite happy with the prospect.


8 posted on 09/18/2018 7:27:05 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Red Badger

Aren’t we told by liberals that those under the age of 18 shouldn’t be tried as adults in murder cases due to their inability to distinguish between right and wrong?


9 posted on 09/18/2018 7:28:33 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump seems confident according to his release


10 posted on 09/18/2018 7:28:37 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: yesthatjallen

Grassley needs to push this through now!


11 posted on 09/18/2018 7:28:43 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Hyman Roth

Asinine liberals remind me of a pack of chimpanzees simultaneously screeching alarm at perceived threats, real or imagined.


12 posted on 09/18/2018 7:28:49 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: yesthatjallen

I have had ENOUGH of the ***damned senate.


13 posted on 09/18/2018 7:29:00 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Reno89519

“Senate Republicans and Never Trumpers seem quite happy with the prospect.”

Agreed.

There are very few in the government who give a rat’s behind about the American people, or care what we think.


14 posted on 09/18/2018 7:29:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: LS
No, they won’t.

How can you say that? If they control the committee they'll just refuse to schedule any hearings for the full two years. They'll play snit-for-tat over Merrick Garland.


15 posted on 09/18/2018 7:30:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen

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.’”

You got to laugh, “I don’t remember.” is Hillary’s pat
answer to everything.

Kav gave her a straight answer, “No.”.


16 posted on 09/18/2018 7:30:55 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I have had ENOUGH of the ***damned senate.

Repeal the 17th. Amendment. The nation cannot continually be held hostage by our 100 biggest egomaniacs.


17 posted on 09/18/2018 7:31:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen

“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.”


But at the time when the court was down one after Scalia’s death, the liberal view was that we need a fully staffed Supreme Court, and that’s why they protested about Garland never getting a hearing. So now the liberal view is that we can leave Supreme Court seats vacant up to two years? But what about the need to have the court fully staffed???


18 posted on 09/18/2018 7:33:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Right Brother

Them and the UN...............


19 posted on 09/18/2018 7:34:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

And the republicans will do NOTHING to stop them.

The problem with American politics is the republicans don’t keep their campaign promises and the democrats do.


20 posted on 09/18/2018 7:35:45 AM PDT by null and void (The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
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