What do you mean by “dealt with this” ? What does that consist of?
What does feinstein do to be a good public servant?
Crap, lost my post.
For sure, one thing that Kavanaugh made clear is that he DOES NOT want an investigation. The hearing today was NOT and investigation (as Kavanaugh claims but as a Federal Judge knows it was not).
And the locals in Upstate South Carolina love him. He just guaranteed reelection in 2020, assuming he runs again. His most likely challenge would be in a primary but today he fended off any chance of being challenged successfully from the right wing. Unlikely that South Carolina would turn blue but any Democratic challenger in the general election won’t stand a chance now.
He goes from John McCain buddy to Trump lackey. Anything to get re-elected, I guess.
Whoops…Yeah, that was a bad typo of mine! Totally changed the meaning of that sentence.
Thanks.
That left wing rag the Wall St. Journal wrote that he lied when he said he did not watch her testimony.
Okay, it’s official: Lindsay Graham is gay. He’s overcompensating for his perceived lack of straightness by being the uber-macho tough guy for the home team.
Let me be clear: nothing wrong with being gay from where I stand, but we all know how conservatives feel about gays, and it’s Graham’s choice to stay in the closet and live a lie knowing that his party would hate him if he ever came out. The irony is that he’s enabling the rise of a religious sectarian cultism and fascism that reviles people like him.
Whomever it was that leaked Ford’s name, Democrat, Republican, or neither, I hope they get found out and nailed to a tree.
…what a ridiculous thing to say.
Of course she was hopeful that Feinstein could do something to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation without her claims being made public. She didn’t want to turn her life into a living-fucking-hell. Not making the claims publicly was the only way to avoid that.
She came forward not just because she hoped to stop the confirmation: because with the partisan nature of the confirmation process that was exceedingly unlikely.
She came forward because it was the right thing to do.
“Her goal” was to speak the truth. There was never really a chance of “stopping the confirmation.”
It makes perfect sense.
We have it on record “where it didn’t come from”. Feinstein’s speculation doesn’t seem unrealistic at all.
Also official , the Pope is Catholic
Is there any discussion of the fact that the GOP hired a person to do the questioning for them, and when it turned out that she was asking legitimate, level headed and fact finding questions, they abandoned her in favor of men screaming indiscriminately and fellating Kavanaugh?
Lindsey Graham losing his shit is, I think, highly instructive.
He is positively beside himself that democrats are trying to postpone the vote to confirm Kavanaugh till after the mid-term election.
Of COURSE that is what they are trying to do! And guess who laid the groundwork making that ok? Republicans! (SEE: Merrick Garland whose vote was delayed for well over 300 days to get past an election so Republicans could get their way).
I think this is the final proof that god does not exist else Graham would have been struck by lightning.
It never ceases to amaze me how butthurt politicians get when they are made to sleep in the bed they made. How do they never seem to consider that the precedent they set today can be used against them tomorrow?
Also, just because they arrange things to drag out the process does not mean the accusations are false.
I believe they never planned for the woman from Arizona to also question Brett but I could be wrong.
Feinstein is safe in her job for as long as she wants it. So if the Nazi Party goes true to form, they’ll caucus tomorrow and decide they have 50 votes and have the sexual predator sworn in Monday. And the best part: they’ll still get to whine about Bork! And when he rules that the head Nazi won’t have to go to prison for state crimes if he pardons himself, it will be the right kinds of jackboots on the necks of the wrong kinds of people! All they need do is start a fire somewhere and declare martial law.
I keep hearing it mentioned that Graham is auditioning to be AG Jeff Sessions’ replacement after the mid-terms. Explains why he’s acting so nuts. Required skill to work in the current administration.
Well, I’ll be honest. Going into this, I wasn’t sure whether to believe the allegations against Kavanaugh or not. Part of me felt like the Democrats just pulled it out of their ass to stall Kavanaugh as long as possible, and I was fine with that: Trump’s Supreme Court picks deserve to be picked on as much as possible if for no other reason than it’s justified revenge against how the GOP fucked over Garland, and that if this is the time for dirty tricks, so be it.
After watching these hearings and seeing Kavanaugh’s behavior when he’s on the spot, I can say that now I do believe the allegations against him, and also that he is a totally arrogant, obnoxious, untrustworthy individual.
That’s basically all I have to say about it.
If Democrats can take control of Congress and the White House in 2020, I think we’re going to have to take some extreme measures to save this Republic;
- Nuke the filibuster entirely
- Congresses passes an act temporarily increasing the size of the Supreme Court
- The president nominates and the Senate approves 3-5 liberal judges whose spots will not be refilled upon retirement, allowing a safe liberal majority for a generation or two until the Nazi Party has disbanded or become sane again
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Republicans already killed it. It was called the “nuclear option” and when the Dems were in power the Reps kept telling them that if they went there someday they would regret it…so they didn’t. After 2016 as soon as Gorsuch was nominated the Reps pushed the button on the nuclear option to make it impossible for Dems to filibuster. They did not hesitate even a moment.
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Congress does not need to pass any such thing. There is no defined limit to the court’s size. Tradition is all that keeps it at nine. Any president, at any time, could nominate a 10th, 11th, 12th (and so on) candidate. All that stops that is the senate confirming them.
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See #2. You cannot limit the 10th, etc., nominations to disappear after they leave the court. (Well, you could with a constitutional amendment…good luck with that.)
That said, given how the Reps stole a seat, I think it is entirely appropriate for the Dems to tell Gorsuch to step down and replace him with Garland (or whoever they pick) or stack the court (since you need 2/3 to impeach Gorsuch that is SUPER unlikely to ever happen).
They killed it for nominations, but not for legislation, which is what we need to carry out the second point.
Ahem;
To add more justices, we need to change that law, which has been done in the past - statutes have set the size of the Court at everything from five to ten in our history.
I see nothing in the law that prohibits it. The statute revising the size of the court should be able to specify that the size of the court shall be reduced by one when one of the justices appointed under it dies or retires.