k9bfriender:
… The voted to schedule a vote before they would be able to find out. That means that they want to vote with incomplete knowledge, which implies that they are concerned about what the knowledge would be, and that, if that knowledge were known, then they would not be able to justify their support. …
It doesn’t “imply” that at all. It implies they want to get Justice Kavanaugh confirmed before the SCOTUS term starts in OCtober.
k9bfriender:
… Please tell me what the rush is to confirm this person. Your party felt that it was perfectly acceptable to have a vacancy through an entire court season in order to be able to put a right wing ideologue onto the court, you can’t stomach missing a seat for a few weeks to make sure that we are not giving this position to a sexual predator?
Even if the Republicans lose the senate this fall, they have till January to confirm trump’s pick, that’s about 4 months. I can see rushing before the new congress is sworn in in order to prevent the people of the country from getting a say in the process, but they don’t need to rush this much. This much rushing tells me that there is more that is ready to come out, that they need to get out ahead of, and get him confirmed quickly. Either that, or they know that they will be needing him on the court to defend legislation or executive orders that they will be passing that would not pass muster in a less ideological court, and they want to get that stuff started before the consequences of the election set in as well.
What “rushing” are you talking about? Previously I posted this:
Rush? There’s no need to rush. According to Wikipedia :
Kennedy was confirmed 65 days after his nomination. Thomas was confirmed 99 days after his. For Ginsburg it was a mere 50 days. Breyer was 73. Roberts (a bit odd because it shifted from Associate to Chief Justice partway through) was 23 or 39 days. Hell, let’s add them together and call it 62 days. Alito was 82. Sotomayor was 66, Kagan was 87 and Gorsuch was 65.
The midterms are in 132 days. President Trump could spend an entire month contemplating who from his list he’d like to select and the Senate could give that person a longer nominating process than any of the currently-serving justices, and it could still all be wrapped up before the midterms.
Kavanaugh was nominated on July 9th. That was 69 days ago, and it’s still probably another 10 or so until his final confirmation vote. That’s not “rushed”. Its right in line with the nominations of previous SCOTUS justices.