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Hirono (Hawaii US Senator) cancels meeting with Kavanaugh and will oppose Supreme Court nomination
Honolulu Star-Advertiser ^ | 8/22/18 | Some Staff Reporter

Posted on 08/23/2018 1:11:17 PM PDT by MplsSteve

U.S. Sen. Mazie K. Hirono announced today that she will oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Donald Trump long ago announced his intention to nominate a judge off of a list prepared by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation,” said Hirono in a news release. “When it became clear he chose the one person from that list who believes presidents should not be subject to criminal investigations or civil suits, I knew that nominee would have a very heavy burden of proof. Given his lengthy record of partisan political activity, I could not give him the benefit of the doubt.”

Hirono said she spent the last six weeks reading Kavanaugh’s opinions and dissents from his time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, along with his law reviews, speeches and the “relatively few documents” from his federal service that Judiciary Committee Senators have been allowed to see.

“It is clear to me that he is not a fair-minded judge and would not be a fair-minded justice,” she said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: hawaii; judicial; kavanaugh; supremecourt; tokyohirono; tokyomazie; tokyorose
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To: MplsSteve

Yeah. Because a “fair-minded” judge, would be someone who announced he was gunning for Trump, right Senator?
It’s not as if she was going to vote for him, anyway; she’s just using this opportunity to make a dig.


41 posted on 08/23/2018 2:22:15 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: dead

Took her 6 weeks to read “the relatively few documents...we were allowed to see”. Slow reader? Or just slow?


42 posted on 08/23/2018 2:29:28 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MplsSteve

This woman is a complete idiot. They accuse others of judging a book by its cover and then do it themselves. What an ugly dunce.


43 posted on 08/23/2018 3:34:22 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: MplsSteve

She is just using the hurricane as an excuse not to meet him and thought she might get the formalities out of the way and declare up front she won’t support him.


44 posted on 08/23/2018 3:40:05 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: MplsSteve

Mazie is one of the most stupid people in the Senate
Now that the dog has barked, let the caravan move on


45 posted on 08/23/2018 4:21:19 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: MplsSteve

No big deal! You know she was going to oppose kavanaugh anyway.


46 posted on 08/23/2018 4:42:57 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: MplsSteve

Wow, a demonrat going against Trump.


47 posted on 08/23/2018 4:53:54 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: MplsSteve

Typical liberal! Don’t confuse me with facts. My mind is already made up!


48 posted on 08/23/2018 5:30:35 PM PDT by baldisbeautiful ("Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them", George Orwell)
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