Posted on 09/24/2018 12:56:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that the Senate will hold an up-or-down vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, amid a committee investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the nominee.
"I want to make it perfectly clear ... Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Up or down on the Senate floor. This fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in the Senate in the near future," McConnell said from the Senate floor on Monday.
He declined, after his floor speech, to say if Republicans would try to vote on Kavanaugh before Oct. 1—the previous timeline for when leadership wanted to get him confirmed.
McConnell's comments are the latest sign from top Republicans and the White House that they are not backing down from an all-out brawl as they try to confirm Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy.
He added that Democrats are trying to "smear" Kavanaugh, arguing that their tactics are "despicable."
The floor speech was McConnell's first comments on Kavanaugh since The New Yorker reported that Senate Democrats are investigating a second sexual misconduct allegation dating back to Kavanaugh’s freshman year at Yale.
Deborah Ramirez says Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of her during a gathering at Yale. She told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face, causing her to touch it without her consent.
Kavanaugh was already facing a sexual assault allegation from Christine Blasey Ford, who says that at a party in the early 1980s Kavanaugh pinned her down to a bed and tried to remove her clothing.
Kavanaugh and Ford are both scheduled to testify before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Kavanaugh has denied wrongdoing.
McConnell indicated on Monday that he wants the Thursday hearing to go on as scheduled, saying senators should "have a fair hearing on Thursday."
Excellent!
Get on with it.
Hold the vote, don’t let the Dems stop you.
Mitch comes through. Yeah baby!!!
Kavanaugh will get conformed, just hold the vote.
I have read of nominations being brought to the full Senate that failed in committee, or had a tie vote.
Kennedy announced his decision to retire at the end of June effective July 31, so Trump nominates Brett on July 9 three weeks prior to that retirement. Hardly any opportunity for the Senate to do something early in the summer.
He met Senators, provided 4800 pages of documents, and was investigated in the next 7 weeks after his nomination and was having formal hearings the first week of September. The hearings were finished within 37 days of Kennedy leaving office.
No chance for any Democrat no-shows. All 49 will be there in opposition.
I was completely flabbergasted - could this be the limp-wristed, chi less girlyman Turtle we have all come to know and despise? This guy actually sounded like a man.
Heard him and it was good.
When?
I will give Mitch some deference here. It was he who pulled the trigger on the ‘nuclear option’ and confirmed Judge Gorsuch.
I’m so angry I can’t spit over this.
Is this a recorded vote?
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Never-Trumpers believe that if they can just get that cretin Trump out of the way then they will be able to use their intellectualism and reasoned arguments to persuade at least some on the left that conservatism is the superior governing philosophy. Their naïveté in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is stunning.
We are in hand-to-hand combat with people who have no moral code, no guiding principles, and who will do anything to get what they want. They don’t want to listen to real debate or attempts at intellectual persuasion; they only want to destroy their opponents and force their own political desires on everyone else.
We elected Trump precisely because he is a brawler, he has the right principles, and he is totally fearless and immune to the Left’s usual intimidation tactics. Feckless never-Trumpers and GOPe types need to shut up and get out of the way. They have nothing to offer in this current (and ongoing) street fight.
Haha. I sent Grassley the William Wallace/BRAVEHEART rallying speech to his troops today. Hold, hold, hold......
Dear Senator Grassley,
I suggest you and the other Republicans take a long break today and watch a movie called BRAVEHEART. Especially the part where William Wallace is encouraging his troops and leading them into a battle that became a war.
“We all end up dead, it’s just a question of how and why. Every man dies, not every man really lives. I am William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of TYRANNY. You’ve come to fight as free men.....and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
What Mitch said is at link:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4750994/senator-mcconnell-senate-vote-kavanaugh-nomination
A spine!
Outstanding. Good job Mitch!!
I have read that, and - given that the filibuster is RIP, that makes sense to me.And, given the fact that Democrats can pull “Anita Hill” stunts ’til the cows come home, time’s awasting. Do it, and do it ASAP.
The GOP needs to win this or they are finished.
They will allow the Left to weaponize this issue to destroy any and all future appointments to any government position without a fact based opposition. They will simply roll out the “rape” card and that will be that.
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