Posted on 09/21/2018 2:12:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
As soon as one playbook looks to be falling apart, the Left is drafting a new one—and it speaks to their unhinged disposition regarding this Supreme Court nomination. Judge Brett Kavanaugh was already facing a solid Democratic opposition. The two days of frenetic and drawn out hearings showcased a party who knew deep down that the game was up. The GOP had the votes—they still do—and his nomination would sail through. They tried the transparency pivot, asking for time to review scores of documents from his time as the White House Staff Secretary under Bush. None of those documents were relevant concerning his judicial acumen or legal theory. It was a delay tactic, the first salvo of many. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) refused his Democratic colleagues’ BS demands because he knew there was nothing that would change their minds; they already gave away the ball game when they announced they would oppose him. Why entertain the motion? So, onward we went.
Let’s recap where this nomination hit a snag: The committee vote was slated for today, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) decided to drop a bombshell: a woman named Christine Blasey Ford, alleges that a drunken Kavanaugh, then-aged 17, tried to sexually assault her at a party. This dropped at zero hour. DiFi had the letter since July, never told her colleagues about it, and apparently didn’t think much of it since it was never brought up during the hearings. Maybe it’s because the allegation has no evidence, no solid witnesses, and it’s over 30 years old. Ford can’t remember how she got to the party, how the party itself came together, and who owned the house where this attempted assault reportedly took place. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.
She claims she wanted anonymity. So, why did she hire a lawyer, Debra Katz, and anti-Trump democratic operative? Why did she have a polygraph administered by an unknown former FBI agent? These aren’t actions taken by a woman who wanted to remain quiet and cloaked in darkness. This has all the makings of a character assassination ploy. Progressives have torched Feinstein, however, for sitting on this letter that has plunged the whole process into chaos. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) a key vote on judiciary said that the initial committee vote should be postponed when these allegations dropped. He also said if Ford is a no-show at Monday’s hearing he will support the motion to move Kavanaugh’s nomination forward. Ford responded today, saying she would testify, but not on Monday. The Judiciary Committee has been very cooperative, offering Ford private, public, and even an interview at her house taken by staffers to get her story on record.
Still, Democrats want an FBI investigation. It’s delay, delay, and delay some more. Everyone sees it, which is why Senate Republicans weren’t caving to their crap. Yet, suppose Kavanaugh goes through, plan B is already set in place. Democrats are hoping anti-Trump anger ushers them into the majority this midterm season. So, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, reconvene next congress, investigate, and then impeach him. Yeah, they’re really still sour over Merrick Garland. Here’s an op-ed in The New York Times outlining the case:
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 Amendment’s guarantee against self-incrimination)
If a simple majority of the House decided to proceed with impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee would be empowered to conduct a thorough and careful investigation of the sexual misconduct allegations that Professor Christine Blasey Ford has made against Mr. Kavanaugh involving a drunken sexual assault when both were high school students in suburban Washington, D.C.
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Of course, even if the House impeached Mr. Kavanaugh, it would still take a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict and remove him from the Court. But the Senate vote would surely have at least something to do with the merits of the House’s case: If a full and fair investigation shows that Mr. Kavanaugh has lied regarding the incident — he has denied it categorically and says nothing even remotely like it ever occurred — Republican senators may find it hard to vote “no” in the #metoo era. It would be a terrible blow to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, of course, but this is the risk that Senators McConnell and Grassley seem willing to take.
Moreover, an impeachment investigation could also encompass allegations that Mr. Kavanaugh has committed perjury before the Senate, twice, related to his work on the nomination of District Judge Charles Pickering to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Under oath, both in 2006 and in 2018, he said he had no involvement with the White House strategy sessions associated with Judge Pickering’s nominations. Subsequently released emails, involving these sessions, suggest that these answers were at best misleading and at worst totally false.
Attending a strategy session as a White House staffer is not a crime. Lying under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the other hand, is. Perjury would be a perfectly justifiable, and constitutional, basis for impeachment.
So, it’s a double-whammy; nab him on this Ford allegation, which is so thin it almost vanishes with the coming breeze. Oh, and perjury—overall, this is just insanity. Yet, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reiterated the position: if they get the gavels in November, they will investigate Kavanaugh (via Politico):
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said that “as soon as Democrats get gavels,” the party will vet the FBI’s handling of Ford’s claim against the Supreme Court nominee — even if Kavanaugh is already seated on the high court by that time.Rep. Eric Swallwell (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, also said in an interview that the party could probe Kavanaugh’s denials of the allegations against him.
"If they ramrod this nomination through, and we win the majority, we can still investigate this on the House side, and certainly the question as to whether a Supreme Court justice committed perjury is something you could look at,” Swalwell said in an interview. "Hopefully it doesn’t come to that; hopefully they do this right."
"Because," he added, "it’s going to get investigated either way and it would be better not to have to investigate a sitting judge.”
Their comments point to a continued Democratic focus on Kavanaugh that could help turn out liberal voters in November, regardless of whether the GOP can confirm him.
They really hate this guy. I mean, really hate him. We said it would get nasty. Abortion, liberal America’s favorite pastime, is under threat. They also see a 5-4 solid conservative majority for the next generation as something beyond intolerable, maybe even apocalyptic. For conservatives, that 5-4 solid majority is worth fighting for—and it is. It’s a street fight. It’s not a time to be nice to one another. It’s a time to break out the biggest guns you have to fight against these possibly false charges against Kavanaugh. It’s wartime, Republicans. Act like it.
‘If something does not stop the current rot in our controlling institutions’
well, since God allowed it to happen, shouldn’t He be the one to stop it...?
“She claims she wanted anonymity. So, why did she hire a lawyer”
She’s come under the influence of Feinstein and other democrat persuaders. Professor Ford is being used. If she ends up looking like a fool, Feinstein is to blame. Professor Ford is a victim of Feinstein.
They hate being “judged.” So they hate anything good. Please see my tag line...
Have the vote already you spineless republicans. They should be the ones wearing the pussy hats
I saw that meme. And it’s more true than you think. All you have to do is listen to Hillary, Biden, Obama, and others on the Left.
The left wants to nullify the vote whenever they don’t like the outcome.
PERFECT.
(ok / want credit if I put that on twitter?)
The REAL reason for the hysteria here is not ROE. It is not OBAMACARE. Those matter, of course, but the REAL reason for the crazy here is that if Kavanaugh is seated IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1937 WE HAVE AN ANTI “NEW DEAL” TYPE OF ACTIVISM SET OF JUSTICES IN THE MAJORITY ON THE BENCH. I can’t tell you how huge this is. Kavanaugh may make some mistakes from misapplying stare decisis and honoring precedent more than he should, but there is no discounting the tidal shift in the court. Kennedy was a “swing vote” who was essentially utilitarian and pragmatist in his voting patterns. Kavanaugh is (at least purports to be) a principled originalist.
If the American people get used to USSC decisions where that is the lead thought and prominent “field” of argumentation in the decisions, then it could be responsible for a sea change in political and legal opinion.
This would be very very bad for progressives.
I didn’t create that, some brilliant anonymous poster did.
Feel free to use the posted image...it’s on my imgur account, so no problems with hot link issues.
Use it, copy it, send it out, get it out there.
This isn't directed exclusively at you, familyop, but I'm really growing weary of all the prognostications of collapse over this scandal or that one. Americans aren't going to do much of anything about any of this.
Despite these being truly grievous and disconcerting real life events, most Americans see this stuff as memes or reality theater. We've become so disconnected as a species that the political ruling classes know they can rule how they please with little more than some loud barking from those who are concerned but have little power to do anything about it.
The #metoo movement is a Leftist Gambit to ensure that no Republican ever gets elected. There will ALWAYS be some accuser available, and under it’s principles if you are accused, you are guilty. Of course, it takes time to implement this strategy, but Kavanaugh is it’s first really big test.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They’ll all go on strike/weep and gnash their teeth/stage a riot/move to foreign counties blah blah blah
This whole song and dance would be a lot more effective if the children didn’t launch into the same harangue EVRY TIME they don’t get their way.
The court isn’t changed for very long. Justice Thomas has indicated that he would like to retire soon. There’s no guarantee that a Republican will be president when that happens or when one of the liberal justices retires.
It will be better for the time being with Kavanaugh in place, for sure.
“America’s enemies on the left need a new hobby. They may have chosen civil war.”
Sure sounds like it, doesn’t it? They will reap what they sow. Civil war is the ugliest, most savage, most tragic of events.
Nah, she’s no victim. She’s a pussy hat wearing activist and a liar. She is in the very den she chose to be in.
“We” don’t do anything.
“we have jobs and can’t do anything but whine” “We just don’t do things like they do” Those are the conservative rationalizations
“We” have no choice but to depend on our elected representatives as the founders intended
That great conservaative force, The DC Chapter, is dead and gone. Apathy killed it
“It’s wartime, Republicans. Act like it.”
BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
We wish.
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