Official Brett Kavanaugh Thread, Part 5

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Collins expected to vote yes on cloture. Then speech at 3 discussing final vote.

If Collins is planning on running for the-election she will votes yes. If she votes no, Trump will back someone who will challenge her in the primary and she is likely to lose. If she votes no, however, it is not like the Dems are not going to put someone up against her in the general election.

She's finished either way. If she votes no, she loses the primary, If she votes yes, she loses in the general. Her safest course of action is to vote No and become an independent.

[Anonymous]

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Dianne Feinstein is speaking VERY well.

She is coldly and calmly enumerating all the many reasons why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed.

You can listen on NPR 88.5 or wapo front page.

Why would anyone still listen to her? Do you not blame her and her staff for leaking Dr. Ford's letter to the press, violating Dr. Ford's explicit request for confidentiality?

even hatch says she didn't leak it. Get over yourself.

You are saying if someone maybe does one thing we don't like, we should not listen to them. Well kavanaugh maybe did 5 things wrong. WE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO HIM.

Why do you need to personally insult me and others that disagree with you? Please let your intellectual arguments speak for themselves.

I have not heard that Sen. Hatch said Sen. Feinstein (or especially, a member of her staff) did not leak the document. Please post link.

https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1045843457779146752

Sen. Hatch is commenting on the leak of Dr. Ford's letter to the publication, "The Intercept" -- right? Who was the original leak to the Washington Post/other media in early September?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Dianne Feinstein is speaking VERY well.

She is coldly and calmly enumerating all the many reasons why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed.

You can listen on NPR 88.5 or wapo front page.

Why would anyone still listen to her? Do you not blame her and her staff for leaking Dr. Ford's letter to the press, violating Dr. Ford's explicit request for confidentiality?

Can I also add, I really hope the leaker of this document is prosecuted. Dr. Ford wanted privacy, and she was betrayed.

She is an old white woman and should not be in the senate. She needs to be in a nursing home.

+ 1,000,000

lets send them there with Hatch, together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Dianne Feinstein is speaking VERY well.

She is coldly and calmly enumerating all the many reasons why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed.

You can listen on NPR 88.5 or wapo front page.

Why would anyone still listen to her? Do you not blame her and her staff for leaking Dr. Ford's letter to the press, violating Dr. Ford's explicit request for confidentiality?

even hatch says she didn't leak it. Get over yourself.

You are saying if someone maybe does one thing we don't like, we should not listen to them. Well kavanaugh maybe did 5 things wrong. WE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO HIM.

Why do you need to personally insult me and others that disagree with you? Please let your intellectual arguments speak for themselves.

I have not heard that Sen. Hatch said Sen. Feinstein (or especially, a member of her staff) did not leak the document. Please post link.

Because you consume biased news sources.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Dianne Feinstein is speaking VERY well.

She is coldly and calmly enumerating all the many reasons why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed.

You can listen on NPR 88.5 or wapo front page.

Why would anyone still listen to her? Do you not blame her and her staff for leaking Dr. Ford's letter to the press, violating Dr. Ford's explicit request for confidentiality?

Can I also add, I really hope the leaker of this document is prosecuted. Dr. Ford wanted privacy, and she was betrayed.

She is an old white woman and should not be in the senate. She needs to be in a nursing home.

+ 1,000,000

lets send them there with Hatch, together

Why do you need to insult Sen. Hatch (Ted Kennedy's best friend?) He is retiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Dianne Feinstein is speaking VERY well.

She is coldly and calmly enumerating all the many reasons why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed.

You can listen on NPR 88.5 or wapo front page.

Why would anyone still listen to her? Do you not blame her and her staff for leaking Dr. Ford's letter to the press, violating Dr. Ford's explicit request for confidentiality?

Can I also add, I really hope the leaker of this document is prosecuted. Dr. Ford wanted privacy, and she was betrayed.

She is an old white woman and should not be in the senate. She needs to be in a nursing home.

+ 1,000,000

lets send them there with Hatch, together

Don't forget Trump and Grassley! The old folks at home. They can reminisce about good times, even the ones they didn't have but remember they did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are the Rs so determined to confirm this guy? There are others I'm sure who would fit the bill. Why BK?? Do they just want to win?

Swing seat on the SC.

That doesn’t actually answer the question. They could have nominated any of the other right wing jags.

Difference is that Bretty has been bought and Bretty will vote to let Trump and his GOP treason goons off.

He is Judge Kavanaugh, to you.
And why confirm this guy?

At this point, there is no way I want Senators to bend to the extreme, obnoxious, dirty tactics of the left. That is where I am with this nomination.
It would be an invitation for left-wing activists to slander and attack any nominee put up by the right.

Thomas was confirmed by a Senate with 57 Democrats. Roberts, Alito, and Gorsuch were confirmed without a great deal of drama. Fact is that any resistance by the Democrats would trigger you and prompt you to support whoever the Republicans dished out, no matter how problematic that person was.

And, this just shows how far left the Democrats have swung.

[Anonymous]

Judicial Code of Conduct - section Kavanaugh violated

An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired. Public confidence in the judiciary is eroded by irresponsible or improper conduct by judges. A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

I have inserted this quote from the Judicial Code of Conduct (Canon 2) at least 5 or 6 times on these threads to nothing but *crickets*. Modern Republicans don't care about rules or decency any more. Our country is lost.

[Anonymous]

Collins just said she's a yes on procedural vote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Collins just said she's a yes on procedural vote

And?

Does anyone really want to drag this on further?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe we should all go and watch "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Kavanaugh is no Tom Robinson. Be ashamed.

Ashamed of the belief in the foundation of our legal system of innocence until proven guilty? Never.

I have no doubt that something terrible happened to Dr. Ford. I watched her testimony, and I feel sympathy for her. I really do.

However, there is absolutely no evidence that Judge Kavanaugh did anything to her. You are letting your emotions take over your rational thinking.

I don't know if Ford and Kavanaugh intersected or what happened when they did.

I know that his behavior today is unacceptable for a Supreme Court justice. His behavior over his past professional life is also unacceptable for a Supreme Court justice.

The man's personal and professional life was blown apart by this accusation. He was angry about being blindsided by the accusation. I give the man a pass for righteous anger.

Again: judges don’t get to be righteously angry. They don’t get to cry and gnash their teeth. They don’t get name their (imagined) enemies (especially when they have themselves acted as partisan hacks). Judges don’t get to be human in that sense. They must be calm and controlled.

At the hearing, he was not appearing as Judge Kavanaugh. He was appearing as Brett Kavanaugh - human being and one who has been wrongly accused of heinous allegations.

The man is literally a sitting judge and is bound in all cases and times, by the judicial code of honor, which he violated on numerous occasions.

The Judicial Conference of the United States is not going to do anything to sanction Judge Kavanaugh, even if by some crazy event he doesn’t get confirmation for his Supreme Court nomination.

Oh, and if, or really, when he gets confirmed, he’s not recusing himself from ANY cases.

Finally, the President is going to ready legislation to expand the Supreme Court to 11. Amy will be one of them, and someone else under 50 will be the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are the Rs so determined to confirm this guy? There are others I'm sure who would fit the bill. Why BK?? Do they just want to win?

Swing seat on the SC.

That doesn’t actually answer the question. They could have nominated any of the other right wing jags.

Difference is that Bretty has been bought and Bretty will vote to let Trump and his GOP treason goons off.

He is Judge Kavanaugh, to you.
And why confirm this guy?

At this point, there is no way I want Senators to bend to the extreme, obnoxious, dirty tactics of the left. That is where I am with this nomination.
It would be an invitation for left-wing activists to slander and attack any nominee put up by the right.

Thomas was confirmed by a Senate with 57 Democrats. Roberts, Alito, and Gorsuch were confirmed without a great deal of drama. Fact is that any resistance by the Democrats would trigger you and prompt you to support whoever the Republicans dished out, no matter how problematic that person was.

And, this just shows how far left the Democrats have swung.

Gorsuch was just confirmed by the same group.

Can we ask that those PPs without any sign of a functioning brain be asked to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are the Rs so determined to confirm this guy? There are others I'm sure who would fit the bill. Why BK?? Do they just want to win?

Swing seat on the SC.

That doesn’t actually answer the question. They could have nominated any of the other right wing jags.

Difference is that Bretty has been bought and Bretty will vote to let Trump and his GOP treason goons off.

He is Judge Kavanaugh, to you.
And why confirm this guy?

At this point, there is no way I want Senators to bend to the extreme, obnoxious, dirty tactics of the left. That is where I am with this nomination.
It would be an invitation for left-wing activists to slander and attack any nominee put up by the right.

Thomas was confirmed by a Senate with 57 Democrats. Roberts, Alito, and Gorsuch were confirmed without a great deal of drama. Fact is that any resistance by the Democrats would trigger you and prompt you to support whoever the Republicans dished out, no matter how problematic that person was.

And, this just shows how far left the Democrats have swung.

Gorsuch was just confirmed by the same group.

Can we ask that those PPs without any sign of a functioning brain be asked to leave.

See the first post at 10:22.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Judicial Code of Conduct - section Kavanaugh violated

An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired. Public confidence in the judiciary is eroded by irresponsible or improper conduct by judges. A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

I have inserted this quote from the Judicial Code of Conduct (Canon 2) at least 5 or 6 times on these threads to nothing but *crickets*. Modern Republicans don't care about rules or decency any more. Our country is lost.

I pulled out the last line of this text. A little louder for the people in the back:

A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chuck Grassley: FBI 302s indicate other witnesses were pressured to lie to corroborate accusations.

Maybe this is the reason for this paragraph in his letter to Ford’s lawyers........

"I urge you once again, now for the third time in writing, to turn over the therapy notes, polygraph materials, and communications with The Washington Post that Dr. Ford has relied upon as evidence. In addition to the evidence I requested in my October 2 letter, in light of recently uncovered information, please turn over records and descriptions of direct or indirect communications between Dr. Ford or her representatives and any of the following: (1) U.S. Senators or their staffs, particularly the offices of Senators Feinstein and Hirono, other than your communications with me and my staff in preparation for the September 27 hearing; (2) the alleged witnesses identified by Dr. Ford (Leland Keyser, Mark Judge, and Patrick “P.J.” Smyth); and (3) Debbie Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, or their representatives.”

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/release...ut-never-provided-to-committee

Uh, you realize Kavanaugh and his people were doing this in July with Ramirez and other Yale classmates, right?

That is witness tampering by a sitting Federal Judge.