Those are solid points John. I can’t tell from news reports whether the constraints permit reasonable investigation to take place. If not, we’d expect charges of whitewash. (Of course we’d expect charges of that anyway, but they could have better or worse grounding.) The refusal to investigate Swetnick’s charges is pretty serious.
My internal reference point is Anita Hill. The debate was murky until solid reporting by 2 WSJ reporters after Thomas was seated. I doubt whether the 1 week investigation will prove pointless from the perspective of evidence or due diligence, even with the constraints. I could be wrong. If I am… I’ll have to update my preconceptions regarding the benefits of investigation. My impression is that the FBI is good at what they do, though I’d expect the report to apply neutral language. Then again, with this administration, you can’t rely on norms.
Is it Safeway? They are unionized. It’s weirdly possible that Mark Judge has a small pension there. If so… records. Certainly, it’s plausible/likely there are records of other employees who worked there at the time. And if you need to keep data for some, you may as well keep data for all. Maybe.
Kavanaugh is on record as having said the president (Trump) should not be “distracted” by investigations of any kind (never mind his involvement with Clinton - he worked with Ken Starr, he was deeply involved in the Whitewater “investigation”, he personally urged Starr to expand the Whitewater investigation to include looking at the death of White House staffer Vince Foster). He apparently thinks only Trump should be immune.
He is a darling of the anti Roe vs Wade bible thumpers.
He has shown himself to be a rabid partisan hack (in his screed against Democrats) during his own hearing. He claimed the women speaking against him were hired by Democrats. He already has a history of pushing conspiracy bullshit.
And there is the upcoming case of Gamble vs. USA, which is all about separate sovereignty - allows both federal and state prosecution of the same crime as the governments are “separate sovereigns”. … and which would directly to Trump, who could then really weaponize his pardons to even stop investigations at the state level.
The case has been analyzed in the context of the Special Counsel investigation into the Trump campaign; if the separate sovereigns doctrine is overturned, a pardon of federal charges from Donald Trump may prevent state prosecution.[1][5] United States Senator Orrin Hatch filed an amicus brief in the case, arguing against the separate sovereigns doctrine; a spokesperson for him denied any relation of the brief to the investigation, saying that Hatch wants the doctrine to be overturned due to “the rapid expansion of both the scope and substance of modern federal criminal law.”[1] - Yeah uh huh. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Trump wants him NOW. Why? He is Trump’s boy. The religious freaks want him because he will help them overturn Roe vs Wade. The fat cats want him because he is rabidly pro-corporation.
He is a toxic fucking stew of everything shitty crooked they want.
So let me get this straight: Kavanaugh got “acquitted” by the Senate in the Yale indecent exposure incident because of a claim of mistaken identity…with an individual who was not attending Yale at the time, but years later shared info supposedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
I don’t even want to know what kind of drugs that whoever writes this shit is taking.