Posted on 09/28/2018 12:00:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sen. Lisa Murkwoski (R-AK) told reporters Friday that she agrees with fellow moderate Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (AZ) in his call for an FBI investigation that would delay the Senate floor vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for up to one week.
Murkowski believes there should be an investigation that is “limited in time and scope.”
Murkowski to @ckmarie:
“do you support Senator Flake’s call for a delay and an FBI investigation?”
Murkowski: "yes I do. It has to be limited in time and scope.”— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) September 28, 2018
During the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to move Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate, Sen. Flake insisted that he did not think they should have a full vote on Kavanaugh until there has been a week-long FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh.
The committee did vote 11-10 to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
As a moderate Republican, Sen. Murkowski was a key vote in the confirmation process.
Kavanaugh's confirmation will be determined by her and other key moderate senators such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeff Flake.
Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford both gave emotional testimonies Thursday on allegations that he groped her and pinned her down while he was drunk at a party in high school.
Kavanaugh fully denies her allegations and the witnesses she initially claimed were present have denied that such an event occurred.
Why would Flake try to trick the Rats?? All he has to do is play it straight and vote "yes".
I think folks should be getting tired of these look-at-me-on-the-internet theories.
It says pathetic piece of sh*t to me.
Many Freepers have been praising Flake for his vote. But as you see he is a scumbag that was bought off by the Dems today to have him jump on board the never ending FBI investigation train.
Aren't they supposed to dust for fingerprints and do some forensic investigation? Where -- at every house in Montgomery County, Maryland?
She's already been "interviewed" on all of this.
Kavanaugh really isn’t a Trump partisan, which is why Trump selected him.
Kavanaugh is an establishment conservative.
I am not sure a short FBI investigation would kill his chances. It might have some advantages, like giving more cover for sone moderates.
But I think that it should be no longer than 3-5 days.
“Limited in time and scope” until more women come forward with their phoney ‘stories’ and this thing is delayed forever.
McConnell needs to put a stop to this madness right now, but of course Murkowski, Flake, and who knows who else will vote “no” and the nomination will be doomed.
I can’t believe what I’m witnessing, and it’s from the Republican party!
Dishonest woman. What is the point? It happened 36 years ago, and Ford can’t say when or where? So now what?
Great! Awesome!
How did such awful, amoral, weak, self-serving, or worse- comprmised, worms get elected?
Really, Alaska, Arizona and the rest of America:
If this nation is to survive-
YOU HAVE TO ELECT BETTER PEOPLE TO OFFICE!!!
That ANYONE would go along with this disgusting spectacle of a smear campaign against a Supreme Court nominee is freakin unbelievable.
It's just sickening!
Guilty until proven innocent.
To hell with the Constitution.
To hell with our country.
Thanks all you useful idiots who are going along with this 😠
Because he needed two of them to be present on the Committee, if what he's saying is correct, then he basically tricked them to get them to show up, as all of the Rats were prepared to sit it out. I'm not sure that's what really happened, but it's an interesting theory.
Good point.
See my prior post on this. I cited the Judiciary Committee rule.
THAT is reaching.
I was a shy boy but do recall begging 15 and begging a 13 year old hottie (I was 15 OK and thought as a 15 year old would) to have sex with me. Not my most proud moment and it failed - which is good. In this day and age I would be charged with sexual harassment.
BTTT.
Cannot put enough make up on this pig
A done deal on Monday with floor vote vs a week, or longer, delay to manufacturer more fraudulent accusations?
Exactly. Tomorrow we have the Creepy Porn Lawyer. My God, I am going to be unchristian right now and pray that someone pushed him in front of a bus.
Why didn’t these bastards act this way when they voted on Bill Clinton sexual misconduct that weren’t 36 years ago.
By their standards now they should have impeached him.
Talk about double standards, and we want the list of names that uses our TAX dollars to cover their own asses.
Of course it is. We had the votes. Flake does this, knowing he was a NO vote anyways, to give his buddies one more week to screw with Collins and Murkowski.
Mark Judge, who is represented by Barbara Van Gelder said in a statement Friday: “If the FBI or any law enforcement agency requests Mr. Judge’s cooperation, he will answer any and all questions posed to him.”
We HAD them. Why didn’t he take the vote at 130 EST like Grassley had planned?
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