It’s objectively unprecedented for the Senate to be provided such a small fraction of the documents
related to a Supreme Court nominee’s past work, as in the case of Judge
Brett Kavanaugh. During Wednesday’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Dick
Durbin (D-IL) caught Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) in an apparent lie about why that is.
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Trump attacks second Kavanaugh accuser, saying she ‘has nothing’ and was ‘totally inebriated’
President Trump on Tuesday attacked the second woman who has accused
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, dismissing her account
because she was “totally inebriated and all messed up,” and accused
Democrats of playing a “con game” in an attempt to derail his Supreme
Court nominee.
‘Kavanaugh will be on the U.S. Supreme Court’: McConnell just erased any doubt about Republicans' intentions to hear Ford out
A big reason Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accuser says she doesn’t want to testify in the Senate without first having her claims investigated by the FBI is she doesn’t think she’ll be treated objectively and fairly by politicians. Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just thoroughly justified
Christine Blasey Ford’s concerns. In comments Friday, he laid plain his
intention to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, apparently no matter
what Ford has to share.
Brett Kavanaugh: Trump nominee facing new scandal after Ed Whelan tweets
On Thursday night, conservative legal operative Ed Whelan sent a series of tweets suggesting that the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were likely a case of mistaken identity.
His evidence was that a high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s kind of
looked like him, and lived in a childhood home that sounded similar to
the home where Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, described the
assault taking place.
'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students
A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
as a “mentor to women” privately told a group of law students last year
that it was “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s female law clerks all
“looked like models” and would provide advice to students about their
physical appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has
learned.
Attorney Sent Letter to Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein Claiming Federal Court Employees Willing to Speak About Brett Kavanaugh
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee were both approached in July
by an attorney claiming to have information relevant to the
confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The attorney
claimed in his letter that multiple employees of the federal judiciary
would be willing to speak to investigators, but received no reply to
multiple attempts to make contact, he told The Intercept.
I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.
I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of
Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to
the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables"
adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps." And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.
Obama’s Resistance to Investigating the Bush Administration Allowed Brett Kavanaugh to Skate Onto the Supreme Court
With full Democratic control of the federal government, calls came for
an investigation into the scandals of the Bush
administration, including torture, mass surveillance, and war
profiteering. While some called for criminal prosecutions, others wanted
hearings or an independent investigation that would — at minimum — put
into the public record the details of who did what and when.
D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh’s testimony to Chief Justice Roberts
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has received more than a dozen
judicial misconduct complaints in recent weeks against Brett M.
Kavanaugh, who was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Saturday, but
has chosen for the time being not to refer them to a judicial panel for
investigation.
How rightwing conspiracy theorists attacked Christine Blasey Ford's testimony
Conservatives did not stand idle while the FBI completed its limited investigation on Brett Kavanaugh.
While this unfolded, Dr Christine Blasey Ford has been subjected to a
full-frontal personal attack, which has been taken up by all segments of
rightwing media. But while most ostensibly respectable outlets contented themselves
with attacks on her credibility, others have leapt headlong into
conspiracy theory.