Posted on 08/21/2018 7:35:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Tuesday said that he thinks a “smelly special interest network” of dark money was involved in Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination process.
“There is a very smelly special interest network that is operating through this nomination process and I think we’ve gotta put a spotlight on that as well,” Whitehouse told CNN Tuesday.
Kavanaugh has been under the Democrat’s scrutiny since President Trump nominated him to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy in July.
Whitehouse told CNN, “I think that to the extent that the focus in these proceedings is entirely on Kavanaugh and misses the larger environment that his nomination comes out of.”
Whitehouse listed off a variety of things he finds suspicious, “The scrutiny that the special interest behind the Federalist Society have given this so called list that the president originated and has followed, the dark money operation that is operating right now to try to pave the political path for him to confirmation, all the funny right-wing groups that turn up before the supreme court as so-called friends of the court, filing amicus briefs, funded by these same special interests.”
Whitehouse did not explain how he arrived at the accusations he did and he said he was unsure whether or not Kavanaugh could reasonably be held responsible for the process surrounding him.
“It’s not clear because he hasn’t come clean with what his role in all this has been,” Whitehouse told CNN. “How much has he been backchanneling with leonard leo to get himself onto the list and to top of it, what does he know about the dark money funding that is supporting his confirmation. These are all questions that I think need answers.”
Whitehouse raised questions about the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, and Judicial Crisis Network’s funding last week, saying that they use mounds of anonymous donations to advertise for Kavanaugh.
CNN reports that the leaders in the Federalist Society have advised President Trump and President George W. Bush on their judicial nominees.
The opposition to Kavanaugh is running its own anonymously funded, $5 million ad campaign attacking the nominee through Demand Justice, a group run by former aides to Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reports.
Do FReepers know that Sheldon Whitehouse (D) used to own a HUGE plantation in Florida. The town of Capps. Used to live up the highway from them. Real aristos— the Whitehouses. True progressive Democrats.
Plantation Democrats. Father was a scum operator in the State Department (where else, in the tradition of the FDR machine, and ... hitlery), screwing with US foreign policy.
This is WHO Whitehouse is... the man who employs the military wing of the clintoonian democrat party—the AntiFA. Anything— Anything (like that ahole Swallwell) to STAY in office and better, in Power.
The Federalist Society is DARK money? Try that again, Sheldon ole buddy.
Requiring Kavanaugh to ‘come clean’ in the PROCESS. Like he is a criminal or addict. Really this is over the top looney.
So, Sheldon, why don’t you “come clean” in your Daddy’s and your’s criminal behaviours and actions.. You FIRST.
Whitehouse raised questions about the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, and Judicial Crisis Network’s funding last week, saying that they use mounds of anonymous donations... The opposition to Kavanaugh is running its own anonymously funded, $5 million ad campaign attacking the nominee through Demand Justice, a group run by former aides to Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reports.
Whitehouse is and always has been an a-hole. Naturally he said this on CNN, a fake news network run by a-holes, and has lower viewership than cartoons. Thanks yesthatjallen.
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The Kavanaugh nomination will make Clarence Thomas’ seem like smooth sailing.
They will stop at nothing.
They've already lost, and they know it. We're a bit more than a month out from the midterms. The Demwits know they're going to have their asses handed to them, and that with or without Collins (ME), the Pubbies are going to approve BK's nomination without any trouble or hangups. Best of all, some Pubbies will express reservations, but that just makes the entire party look like the free thinkers we all tend to be, rather than the monolithic, party-before-all behavior of the Demagogic Party.
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