Posted on 09/20/2018 12:22:11 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Charles Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, seem determined to call a vote next week on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, even in the face of this weeks sexual assault allegations against him.
Senate Republicans assume, correctly, that if they can hold the party line, his installation on the Supreme Court is a sure thing. This is certainly true even if the Democratic caucus in the Senate holds firm against Mr. Kavanaugh, they simply lack the votes to block him. But the Republicans calculus contains a significant error namely, the assumption that if Mr. Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, thats the end of the discussion of whether he is fit to serve.
The Constitution does provide that federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior. The settled understanding of this phrase is that so-called Article III judges enjoy lifetime tenure. But the Constitution also makes both judicial and executive officers subject to impeachment. And, as it happens, the House of Representatives holds the sole Power of Impeachment. If the Democrats win back the House in November, they can exercise that power.
Impeachment proceedings in the House are investigative in nature and come with a full panoply of quasi-judicial powers, including aids to investigations, such as the power to subpoena witnesses to compel them to appear and testify (subject, of course, to constitutional privileges, if applicable, such as the Fifth Amendments guarantee against self-incrimination).
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The Left will just continue smothering conservative judges with pillows as they sleep.
Now you know why liberal lawyers are crazy, but they didn’t do this all by themselves. They had help, lots of help from the Communist/Marxist Left, starting back as far as the Soviet-created/CPUSA front, the International Red Aid.
Then it was followed by the CP’s “legal bulwark” the National Lawyers Guild, which, in the 60’s gave birth to a bastardized Marxist mélange of controlling old Stalinists of the CPUSA and “New Left” Marxists from SDS, NAM, etc.
Other communist/Marxist legal fronts and groups included the CP’s “National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee” (NECLC), the “National Conference of Black Lawyers” (Havana-oriented and based within the Castroite “Association of American Jurists” and the Soviet’s “International Association of Democratic Lawyers” (IADL), one of whose American leaders from within the NLG was Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) whose reported secret CPUSA membership information has not yet been released (and may have been destroyed by the actions of another hardcore Communist Party USA supporter, if not secret member, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich).
As one of the leaders of the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee in 1976 who planned the destruction of the House Internal Security Committee AND ITS FILES, he would have had access to Abzug’s files (not the crap the Archives gives you) that were “seen” by government investigators concerning her Party membership.
Even a friend of hers, and an acquaintance of mine, who participated in her memorial service said that she had not doubts that Bella was Communist Party member.
With all these red and pink lawyers and paralegals running around and teaching at prestigious law schools (Yale - Tommy the Commie Emerson); Harvard - Emerson buddy Vern Countryman; Rutgers - Arthur Kinoy, one of the most brilliant communist attorneys ever and law school professor of later to be FBI director Louis Freeh (See page 164 of his book “My FBI Life” for details); Michael Ratner (CCR, etc), New York city universities; etc., it is no wonder that several new generations of anti-American, anti-capitalist lawyers and new law professors are attempting to destroy American by using the very Constitution they want to undermine and eventually destroy.
The logic of arguments against Judge Kavanaugh that range from the legaly impossible, to the imbecilic to the insane, but their roots of smearing and broadbrushing with innuendos and lies, is in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. These tactics of smears, ridicule, harassment, etc. are the BASIC TENETS of Barack Obama (”get in their faces”, “If they bring a knife, you bring a gun”), and Maxine Waters “don’t give them any peace, confront them everywhere you see them” and “take them out”.
What we are seeing, in part, is a well-planned, ages old Marxist/communist tactic and plan to destroy every leading instruction and their leaders in order to bring about the collapse of the United States of America and the destruction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (one woman said that she didn’t care if innocent men were jailed because it would be for the greater good of the women’s cause) and others want investigations where no criminal complaint is even filed in 32 years.
“She said it happens so he’s guilty”. As in “Alice in Wonderland”, “Off with his head” - he doesn’t need any trial.
Marxism at its purist. Fake charges, fake witnesses, fake documents, corrupt prosecutors and corrupt judges.
My God, it’s 1938 all over again!
“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it”.
Look up the “Stalin Show Trials” of the late 1930’s and you’ll see what playbook the Democrats are following now, almost to the final dot on the page.
A dropped part of my line about” Then it was followed by the CP’s “legal bulwark” the National Lawyers Guild, which, in the 60’s gave birth to a bastardized Marxist mélange of controlling old Stalinists of the CPUSA and “New Left” Marxists from SDS NAM, etc.” THE NAME OF THAT STILLE EXISTING DEFENDER OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IS “THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS”.
Look it up at “www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org” and “www.keywiki.org”. You’ll find a lot of information there that NEVER appears in the mainstream media.
institution? They have already destroyed a lot of those.
Remember how Farrakan was at Aretha Franklin's funeral but not seen on camera?
“The Constitution does provide that federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior.
So he should definitely not sexually assault anyone while he’s a Supreme Court Justice.
Stop funding universities. They don’t teach anything useful, just indoctrinate young ‘uns with pernicious drivel.
They can impeach but the seante convicts. Bill Clinton was impeached but served 8 years as president.The republicans impeached Clinton and at the next election got slaughtered. It did not matter if it was Kavanaugh are not. Remember the fill in the blank signs. Anyone that is nominated the same thing would have happen. Lets put him on the court and see what happens
How is the Kavanuagh BS playing with women? HuffPost Poll 17th-18th Is Ford Credible- R-(4%),D-(53%) over all-(26%), I-(19%), M-(28%), F-(25%). Only 53% of Dems? Grassley better pay attention to the 4% Republicans for 2018. They try to impeach the democrat poll numbers will hit bottom.
They left out the second part the Senate
In an alternate universe, Obama never nominated Merrick Garland, Donald Trump did, and he’s being pilloried by the left. If the president had put up Amy Coney Barrett, they’d probably be dragging out some butch lesbo to claim they had sex. The good part of all of this is that anyone afraid Kavanaugh might be wobbly is seeing any risk of that beaten out of him by these vultures.
Talk about a constitutional crisis, now we’re cooking with grease! Politics am/pm/24/7/365.
Just another sleazy Marxist masquerading as a "scholar."
Any Freeper who lives in a state where the lesser of two evils has a chance of being elected to a particular office (particularly the US House or Senate) he/she must be willing to crawl over broken glass to get to the polls.
“We were out to dinner with some friends last night and two of them were lawyers. They both agreed that this is what Kavanaugh will likely do.”
No offense to lawyers (my son is one), but there is no reason a lawyer would have any special insight into this type of personal decision.
Also, once Kavanaugh is confirmed, there will be little reason for the Leftist harpies to continue their attacks. Justice Clarence Thomas was put through the same ringer - maybe worse - and his accuser never retracted anything.
Yet, the vicious public and media attacks on him quickly faded once he was confirmed. I am not aware of his opinions ever being questioned, qualified, or delegitimized on the basis of the Anita Hill allegations.
The only time I ever see the Anita Hill allegations dredged up is on Hannity or here on FR, as an example of the Demcrat’s shameful character assassination, and Thomas’ now famous rebuke, wherein he called the Senate hearing a “high tech lynching”.
I think everyone knows in both the Thomas case and the Kavanaugh case that these accusations are nothing but partisan Democrat attempts to block the confirmations of conservative justices. They have no genuine concern about either man’s character - their only concern is loss of their beloved abortions.
Once they fail to block confirmation, it will all go away, and that will be that.
37 years ago when both were teens? At first, it was that he had just hit on her. Normal teen behavior,IMO. Now it’s attempted rape? Who is coaching this woman?
37 years ago when both were teens? At first, it was that he had just hit on her. Normal teen behavior,IMO. Now it’s attempted rape? Who is coaching this woman?
As with Spygate they plan impeachment before the position is decided, crooks to the core.
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