A spine!
Outstanding. Good job Mitch!!
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.
Do, McConnell, do, there is no try!!!
Thank you Mitch.
Last week, he promised that Kavanaugh would be sitting on the Supreme Court soon. This week, he is only promising an up or down vote. Not a good indication of his confidence.
They should go forward, there is no turning back.
I believe there is a special place in Hell reserved for people who make false accusations.
Still, I can’t help but wonder if the longer this farce drags out, the more conservatives will show up at the polls in November, in an ugly mood.
If you can’t vote for a Republican, at least vote against a RAT.
As things stand now “I vote for the candidate, not the party” is tantamount to voting for communism.
McConnell reminds me of Lucy holding the football for Linus.
Senators,Our system of jurisprudence has always been based on the tenet of the presumption of innocence. The accuser must meet the burden of proving the accusation is true.
As a Justice on the Supreme Court, would you have had me rule that the burden was on Dredd Scott to show why he should be an American citizen, or should that burden have been on Sandford to demonstrate why Mr. Scott should not be a citizen?
Should the burden have been on Oliver Brown to show that the separate school his daughter was forced to attend was not equal to closer white-attended schools, or should that burden have been placed on the Topeka Board of Eductation to prove that "separate but equal" schooling was necessary?
Should I rule that the burden was on Ernesto Miranda to know his full legal rights when he was arrested, or should Arizona police have to inform Mr. Miranda of his right to an attorney when they arrested him?
Should Norma McCorvey have to justify to the state why she needed an abortion? Should Fred Korematsu have to prove his loyalty to the United States? Should women have to demonstrate their competency to sit on juries? Should the Cantwell family have to prove that their public expression of religion was not a breach of the peace and a public disturbance?
In our system, the accused has a right to know the specific charges and factual evidence against him or her. It is a mockery of our judicial system to suggest that a sitting federal appellate judge, or anyone else for that matter, has to prove his innocence against vague, unspecified, and suddenly recalled allegations, when the very essence of being a judge is to balance the rights of the accused with the rights of the accuser. The burden of proof is on those who make the claims, not on those who are their targets.
Thank you.
-PJ
How’d that repeal of O’Care go? Maybe it was the budget...nope $1T+ deficits. Any wall funding? DACA taken care of? Voter ID? Deep State\govt lawlessness?
Oh, that’s right, corp. tax cuts, killed the individual mandate (aka 1/2 @ss measures).
Sure, McConnell will allow a full up/down vote...right after the midterms...where the never-Trumpers, uniparty and RINOs can vote ‘their conscience’, thumbs-down, w/ no repercussions.
He had better, and soon.