Official Brett Kavanaugh Thread, Part 5

[Anonymous]

Short term loss (Kavanaugh on SCOTUS).

Long term gain - November 2018.

The web site funding Collins' opponent crashed - whoever that ends up being will be awash in cash. Stick a fork in her - she done.

Blue wave. Impeach Kavanaugh (there is a first time for everything).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Jennifer Rubin says...BOOM:

"Republicans, too, could win this fight for the swing Supreme Court seat, but they cannot bestow legitimacy upon Kavanaugh or erase their record of weaponized misogyny. Progressives will seek his recusal in every case of political significance. Every 5-4 decision in which Kavanaugh is the deciding vote will be denounced as illegitimate, the work of a partisan judge elevated to the court by nefarious means. The decision will be respected legally in the short term, but in the future, it will be argued, the decision should carry zero precedential weight. Those he once accused of participating in a left-wing cabal will seek to vacate cases they lose in which Kavanaugh was the deciding vote. In future cases, they will urge justices and lower court judges to downgrade the importance of these decisions, in effect treating them as unpublished opinions that should not impact future cases.

Democrats will ferret out the witnesses whom the FBI ignored and subpoena FBI officials to testify. They will leak the full FBI report at some point and disclose any communications between the FBI and White House that reveal efforts to curb the FBI investigation. They will seek Kavanaugh’s removal, and maybe even his disbarment.

When a Democratic president eventually wins the White House with a Democratic Senate majority, you can count on a court-packing scheme. Most critically, any decision Kavanaugh renders in Trump’s favor on the Russia probe might ignite a constitutional conflagration in which the majority of the country sees an illegitimate justice protect a president illegitimately elected with the assistance of the United States’ foe, Russia.

None of this is desirable, nor would it have been conceivable had Trump picked another justice."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/04/republicans-misogyny-will-come-back-to-haunt-them/?utm_term=.ad3393e52e58

It’s not desirable, but the GOP has turned everything to sit. They have no respect for anyone or anything except money. This is why they are bedfellows with so many strange and undesirable characters - Evangelicals who worship mammon over all, Dominionists, oligarchs - it is entirely about money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Jennifer Rubin says...BOOM:

"Republicans, too, could win this fight for the swing Supreme Court seat, but they cannot bestow legitimacy upon Kavanaugh or erase their record of weaponized misogyny. Progressives will seek his recusal in every case of political significance. Every 5-4 decision in which Kavanaugh is the deciding vote will be denounced as illegitimate, the work of a partisan judge elevated to the court by nefarious means. The decision will be respected legally in the short term, but in the future, it will be argued, the decision should carry zero precedential weight. Those he once accused of participating in a left-wing cabal will seek to vacate cases they lose in which Kavanaugh was the deciding vote. In future cases, they will urge justices and lower court judges to downgrade the importance of these decisions, in effect treating them as unpublished opinions that should not impact future cases.

Democrats will ferret out the witnesses whom the FBI ignored and subpoena FBI officials to testify. They will leak the full FBI report at some point and disclose any communications between the FBI and White House that reveal efforts to curb the FBI investigation. They will seek Kavanaugh’s removal, and maybe even his disbarment.

When a Democratic president eventually wins the White House with a Democratic Senate majority, you can count on a court-packing scheme. Most critically, any decision Kavanaugh renders in Trump’s favor on the Russia probe might ignite a constitutional conflagration in which the majority of the country sees an illegitimate justice protect a president illegitimately elected with the assistance of the United States’ foe, Russia.

None of this is desirable, nor would it have been conceivable had Trump picked another justice."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/04/republicans-misogyny-will-come-back-to-haunt-them/?utm_term=.ad3393e52e58

GOP's sins have not yet bit them and I do not think it ever will. Democrats can never counter the GOP venom unless they give up their moral and be as venomous. Never going to happen. Our country is a lost cause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short term loss (Kavanaugh on SCOTUS).

Long term gain - November 2018.

The web site funding Collins' opponent crashed - whoever that ends up being will be awash in cash. Stick a fork in her - she done.

Blue wave. Impeach Kavanaugh (there is a first time for everything).

The fails continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the question: what do Republicans have on Manchin? There was literally zero upside to voting for Kavanaugh. He’s already cruising to election.

You really believe that?

Absolutely. He just slapped the face of every Democrat woman working the phone banks and volunteering on his campaign. He just sapped his own energy.
It literally makes zero sense, given that Kavanaugh lied and showed extremely poor judicial temperament in his confirmation hearing. Manchin had plenty of good reasons to not vote for Kavanaugh.

Manchin is dirty and the GOP knows it.

+1
Was he the one who’s daughter had some shenanigans (of the illegal variety)?

[Anonymous]

Whose. Argh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The Dems have a long list of people to blame.

Ford Letter Leaker
Avanetti
Etc
Etc
Etc

And a long list of terms that I guess we need to learn the "real" meaning of because, gee-wiz, after all Kavanagh was telling us the truth about their definitions:

Boofing
Devil's Triangle
FFFFFFF
Renate Alumnus
Ralph Club

Sniff, sniff - come on out to the kegger at PJ's tonight and we can talk about it.

After lifting at Tobin’s of course.

Thank you. I need that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short term loss (Kavanaugh on SCOTUS).

Long term gain - November 2018.

The web site funding Collins' opponent crashed - whoever that ends up being will be awash in cash. Stick a fork in her - she done.

Blue wave. Impeach Kavanaugh (there is a first time for everything).

“Internal server error.” I’m sure there are thousands of us clicking refresh repeatedly on the Collins’ opponent funding webpage right now. Shut up and take my money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach kids, and I’m considering changing my approach. I’ve tried teaching kindness, empathy, honesty, and understanding. I’ve actually told kids that these skills will help them navigate their world in the future.

But I think I’m going to start teaching that what really matters is always winning and always being right. Be the best, best everyone else, you’re always right and never wrong. Hold her down, she doesn’t matter, forget it ever happened, grow up and compete and be better than everyone, so you alone can win. I mean, right?

How about medium ground? Teach kids to pick your battles. Grow spine without loosing empathy and honesty. Consider long-term effects of their decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short term loss (Kavanaugh on SCOTUS).

Long term gain - November 2018.

The web site funding Collins' opponent crashed - whoever that ends up being will be awash in cash. Stick a fork in her - she done.

Blue wave. Impeach Kavanaugh (there is a first time for everything).

A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
It would have been better if Kavanaugh had not been confirmed.
The message here is that even a white academic woman's allegation cannot sway the nomination of a Supreme Court judge. If she can't, what about women with less education, and what about women of color?
It's a sad day for this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Dems have a long list of people to blame.

Ford Letter Leaker
Avanetti
Etc
Etc
Etc

The person who leaked the letter is likely the same person who hacked her email 11 days before the news became public, but you keep going on blaming Sen. Feinstein.

+1
Kavanaugh literally used stolen emails - and lied about it - so we know that the GOP probably orchestrated this entire thing.

Just stop with your lies. I’m sure you didn’t actually watch the hearings.

NO and I watched. You won. Okay? CAN YOU STOP LYING? Because Leahy’s Twitter lays it out definitively, and his former assistant when he headed Judiciary also explained this mid-hearings on a variety of outlets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach kids, and I’m considering changing my approach. I’ve tried teaching kindness, empathy, honesty, and understanding. I’ve actually told kids that these skills will help them navigate their world in the future.

But I think I’m going to start teaching that what really matters is always winning and always being right. Be the best, best everyone else, you’re always right and never wrong. Hold her down, she doesn’t matter, forget it ever happened, grow up and compete and be better than everyone, so you alone can win. I mean, right?

How about teaching you’re presumed innocent? How about teaching the accuser bears the burden of proof? How about teaching that a salacious lie is still a lie? You have options, choose to teach them the right lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the question: what do Republicans have on Manchin? There was literally zero upside to voting for Kavanaugh. He’s already cruising to election.

You really believe that?

Absolutely. He just slapped the face of every Democrat woman working the phone banks and volunteering on his campaign. He just sapped his own energy.
It literally makes zero sense, given that Kavanaugh lied and showed extremely poor judicial temperament in his confirmation hearing. Manchin had plenty of good reasons to not vote for Kavanaugh.

Manchin is dirty and the GOP knows it.

+1
Was he the one who’s daughter had some shenanigans (of the illegal variety)?

Then he can get elected with republican votes, then.

[Anonymous]

How democracy dies:
-Judge accused of sexual assault who lied 10x under oath -confirmed with sham investigation
-Stolen SCOTUS seat
-Foreign election interference
-Voter suppression
-Rigged census (coming in 2020)
-Attacking free press

Trump, GOP Senate & Kavanaugh all complicit in this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Jennifer Rubin says...BOOM:

"Republicans, too, could win this fight for the swing Supreme Court seat, but they cannot bestow legitimacy upon Kavanaugh or erase their record of weaponized misogyny. Progressives will seek his recusal in every case of political significance. Every 5-4 decision in which Kavanaugh is the deciding vote will be denounced as illegitimate, the work of a partisan judge elevated to the court by nefarious means. The decision will be respected legally in the short term, but in the future, it will be argued, the decision should carry zero precedential weight. Those he once accused of participating in a left-wing cabal will seek to vacate cases they lose in which Kavanaugh was the deciding vote. In future cases, they will urge justices and lower court judges to downgrade the importance of these decisions, in effect treating them as unpublished opinions that should not impact future cases.

Democrats will ferret out the witnesses whom the FBI ignored and subpoena FBI officials to testify. They will leak the full FBI report at some point and disclose any communications between the FBI and White House that reveal efforts to curb the FBI investigation. They will seek Kavanaugh’s removal, and maybe even his disbarment.

When a Democratic president eventually wins the White House with a Democratic Senate majority, you can count on a court-packing scheme. Most critically, any decision Kavanaugh renders in Trump’s favor on the Russia probe might ignite a constitutional conflagration in which the majority of the country sees an illegitimate justice protect a president illegitimately elected with the assistance of the United States’ foe, Russia.

None of this is desirable, nor would it have been conceivable had Trump picked another justice."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/04/republicans-misogyny-will-come-back-to-haunt-them/?utm_term=.ad3393e52e58

This is exactly what's going to happen. It's why Justice Stevens yesterday said he no longer supported Kavanaugh. Prof. Tribe nailed it

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/opinion/justice-kavanaugh-recuse-himself.html?module=inline

His intemperate personal attacks on members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and his partisan tirades against what he derided as a conspiracy of liberal political enemies guilty of a “calculated and orchestrated political hit” do more than simply display a strikingly injudicious temperament. They disqualify him from participating in a wide range of the cases that may come before the Supreme Court: cases involving individuals or groups that Judge Kavanaugh has now singled out, under oath and in front of the entire nation, as implacable adversaries...

...Judge Kavanaugh’s attacks on identifiable groups — Democrats, liberals, “outside left-wing opposition groups” and those angry “about President Trump and the 2016 election” or seeking “revenge on behalf of the Clintons” — render it inconceivable that he could “administer justice without respect to persons,” as a Supreme Court justice must swear to do, when groups like Planned Parenthood, the NRDC Action Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Naral Pro-Choice America or the American Civil Liberties Union appear as parties or file briefs on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants.

For a Justice Kavanaugh to participate in internal court discussion or oral argument of such cases, much less vote on their resolution, would involve not just an undeniable appearance of conflict but an actual conflict, given his stated animosities and observation that “what goes around comes around.”