Nope, he lost 'em the night before, when he sat down and wrote the over-the-top, screeching opening statement that he was READING to the committee from the beginning. Apparently, one night wasn't enough for him to gain some control, re-read his opus, and consider whether he might express himself with less venom and bias.
Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation hearings and beyond.
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ABC News reporting this morning that, on the basis of the Cloture vote, Kavanaugh will pass the appointment vote.
Despite the wide-ranging protests from legal professions.
Despite the wide-ranging protests from legal professions.
Saw that coming...
Wish I didn't, but I did.
One can fairly accurately predict how things are going to go by taking the worst case scenario and dialing it up to 11 these days.
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Be prepared for an immediate pay-off via Gamble v US, wherein Kav will be the vote that decides that a Presidential pardon applies to all jurisdictions at once.
Amazing how the GOP, the party of small government, is continually stealing state's rights.
Amazing how the GOP, the party of small government, is continually stealing state's rights.
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This Slate article suggests it may not be as bad as many of us were thinking.
Teri Kanefield and Jed Shugerman wrote:
and:
We'll see...
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This is exhausting. I had already made my peace last Friday with the worst person I can think sitting on the bench (after years of having my expectation surpassed on how bad a Supreme Court justice can be), now I gotta do it again while being even angrier. At least this puts into focus how bad and reactionary SCOTUS had been at least during my lifetime, and, with some momentary lapses into decency, potentially much, much longer. This is simply the culmination of what we've been watching play out for quite some time now.
He did. I was taking into account the several days of hearings earlier in the month.
Listening to Collins rerun of today's speeches. She's a firm yes, it's no doubt.
She's ignoring his partisanship, the assault allegations and his lying to the committee. She's going strictly by his past rulings and all the things he told her in their private meeting, which she's portraying in the best light.
She's ignoring his partisanship, the assault allegations and his lying to the committee. She's going strictly by his past rulings and all the things he told her in their private meeting, which she's portraying in the best light.
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Whereas I just read that Murkowski is a "No" vote.
Not sure what that means in the big scheme of things, but there it is.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lisa-murkowski-declares-brett-kavanaugh-160946240.html
Not sure what that means in the big scheme of things, but there it is.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lisa-murkowski-declares-brett-kavanaugh-160946240.html
Welp, it's my special lady's special birthday this weekend, and we were hoping to do something fun. Protesting is kind of fun, I guess. Looks like the wall of 'I believe Anita Hill' posters at my house is now the 'I believe Anita Hill and Christine Blasley Ford' wall. Nothing like sprucing up the house to make you feel better about the world.
Surprised about Murkowski, tho, ultimately it was all about Collins and Flake, who made up their minds a while ago.
Surprised about Murkowski, tho, ultimately it was all about Collins and Flake, who made up their minds a while ago.
You know what’s interesting? A century hasn’t yet passed since women gained the constitutional right to vote; the nineteenth amendment was adopted in 1920. Let’s make it a centennial worth voting for... and worth turning the tides toward future generations of women in politics who know exactly how to manage a nation of liberty and democracy. Vote. Don't be ashamed if you haven't shown up at the voting polls in a while; it's never too late to stand for what you believe in.
Mmh-hmm... and "he will surround himself with good people," I'm sure.
I've been hearing the "it may not be as bad as many of us were thinking" song since 2016, and somehow it has been. It always has been as bad. Even worse.
Fingers crossed that this time it isn't, though crossed fingers are somewhere in the "thoughts and prayers" order of effectiveness.
That one case may not have the impact that some fear. But there will be other cases, and there are other cases working their way through the courts, that are increasingly being stacked with ultra-conservatives who want to roll back civil rights protections and create the theocracy they've been teaching their kids (homeschooling, using textbooks that leave omit Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton, but include Moses, pointing to "God" on our money and in the pledge) we were always meant to be.
That one case may not do all some fear, but we're heading in a bad direction. It is dire. I don't know how we come back from where it's all going. I'll never give up, but I am terrified for this country and for the people more vulnerable than I am.
That one case may not do all some fear, but we're heading in a bad direction. It is dire. I don't know how we come back from where it's all going. I'll never give up, but I am terrified for this country and for the people more vulnerable than I am.
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The article suggests that the notion that trump can pardon everyone in sight may be wrong.
Will pardons (or lack thereof) matter if the entire judicial system is beholden to the TeaOP?
This is my fear: Mueller walks in with an iron-clad case against the regime, the defense shrugs and winks and say "did not," and the compromised justices wink back and say "case dismissed."
And that's just on the collusion matter.
As Lyv pointed out, there are a metric snerkload of cases working their way up the increasingly-stacked courts to the SCOTUS that will directly - and potentially detrimentally - affect many of us. With K on the bench, it's almost a given how they will be ruled before the first word of opening arguments is spoken. This is a generation of damage (at least) set in motion, today.
The "it may not be as bad as you think" argument... sorry, but for some of us it may well be worse.
(Not saying this against you specifically, of course - it's just the sentiment is getting a little stale after so many fists to the face from this regime.)
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If ever there was a week to get enraged at people who still say, “Both parties are the same”, this has been it.
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If you want to see a Holocaust historian's opinion on just how much worse we could very conceivably be in for, take a look at Christopher R. Browning's piece in The NYT Review of Books, The Suffocation of Democracy, including this gem.
Vox has a slightly shorter tl:dr version.
Vox has a slightly shorter tl:dr version.
I turn out to be wrong in my earlier comments predicting Murkowski would go along with a Yes vote. But I won't give her a blank check of credit for this. I don't think she came to this conclusion until she was sure it wouldn't matter, and she wouldn't be the one sinking the nomination. In fact, I think it's possible she may have colluded with Collins to split their votes, once it became clear that the nomination would pass even if one of them voted No. Murkowski has been under serious public heat up here in Alaska ever since the Kavanaugh nomination was made, and she was feeling it. So now she achieves some political cover without affecting anything. Methinks McConnell probably knew all about this, too, and may have even thrown a few drops of Senatorial holy water on it. He wasn't about to risk another John McCain moment, like the one a year-plus ago where McCain came in to cast the deciding vote on killing ACA, and famouly turned his thumb down.
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I've been seeing plenty of books about the rise of Nazism and the threats to American democracy going through the library shipping center lately (easily outnumbering the times I see the books on "God's President" or the charming little manual on introducing kids to "white racial literacy." But, then, I've also seen the Last Week Tonight Marlon Bundo picture book a heck of a lot more than I've seen the official Pence one... but I digress.) The playbook is not new, nor is the end result. Heck, they've barely changed the names. Unfortunately, every generation rediscovers the classics in their own time - and, apparently, the hard way...
Gee, what a surprise. This is me, being surprised.
They aren't even trying to hide it anymore, how they're destroying the very ideals on which the country was built. Because they literally have all the power and they don't have to.
If November doesn't generate a blue tsunami - and, looking at Georgia and other places where fingers are already on the scales and nothing is being done about it, I can't say I'm taking that as a given - America is over.
The FBI keeps detailed notes on the Kavanaugh case, including what it was ordered by the WH to investigate, skip, or report. If the House turns blue expect all those notes to be examined and potentially made public, including Trump's tax filings.
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