In a column by Post opinion writer Helaine Olen, she points out the “staggering hypocrisy” of Brett Kavanaugh.
He has said he doesn’t want to answer questions about his personal life, yet when he worked on the investigation of Bill Clinton, he zealously pursued prurient details about the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky.
“Kavanaugh was not only a part of special counsel Ken Starr’s investigation into President Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he was also one of the lead Torquemadas of it — zealous in the pursuit of his goal to the point of cruelty. If Kavanaugh’s nomination survives till Thursday’s scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, at least one senator should ask him why he thought it was so necessary to ask Clinton such graphic questions about Lewinsky.
“Let me be clear: Kavanaugh not only thought Clinton needed to be questioned about his relations with Lewinsky; he also wanted Clinton to be interrogated in the most detailed and specific way possible. He drew up a memo with a series of 10 sexually explicit questions about Clinton’s relationship with Lewinsky. He claimed he wanted to establish Clinton had no defense for his “pattern of behavior.” As a result, “[the] idea of going easy on him at the questioning is thus abhorrent to me,” Kavanaugh wrote in the summer of 1998.
“To say that the questions Kavanaugh came up with for Clinton were prurient doesn’t do justice to the gross invasiveness and detail he sought. These queries are of the sort that are even now uncomfortable to write out and list in a family newspaper, or discuss in mixed company. Sexual proclivities? “If Monica Lewinsky says you inserted a cigar into her vagina while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?” and “If Monica Lewinsky says that you masturbated into a trashcan in your secretary’s office, would she [be] lying?”
“Starr’s team never asked such questions to Clinton in as specific a way as Kavanaugh drew up. Despite that, they remained, as Clinton put it at the time, “questions no American citizen would ever want to answer.” Those American citizens now apparently include Kavanaugh, who would rather not address his sexual past and apparently believes we should all honor that request.
“Please. The allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and now Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate Ramirez do not, like Lewinsky and Clinton, involve two consenting adults. They are, instead, accusations of serious, nonconsensual sexual misconduct. They raise questions much more legitimate than the questions Kavanaugh would have had Clinton answer. They indicate, to use Kavanaugh’s own words, a possible “pattern of behavior.”
“Republican pols have long operated under a wildly generous the “do as I say, not as I do” standard, even as they castigate Democratic rivals for the tiniest infraction. When it comes to living up to the standards they would impose on others, Republicans escaped that accountability for so long that they appear blindsided when called to explain their actions. That Kavanaugh was pursuing Clinton and Lewinsky to a point of humiliation, while there was potentially much worse behavior in his own past, simply adds to gross hypocrisy on display.”
Half of Yale law students aren’t supporting Kavanaugh and “a majority of faculty members signed an open letter last week calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair confirmation process and marshal a neutral fact-finder to investigate the allegations.”
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Hundreds of Yale Law Students Protest Kavanaugh’s Nomination…Slate
By AARON MAK
SEPT 24, 20186:32 PM
About half of Yale Law School’s students attended protests against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Dozens of professors canceled or rescheduled classes as more than 100 students went to D.C. to voice their opposition to Kavanaugh and join with other progressive groups at the capitol. The demonstrating students met with senators and stood outside the Supreme Court holding signs protesting the nomination proceedings and demanding an investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against the judge.
About 200 students also stayed on campus to hold a sit-in at the law school, reportedly filling the main hallway of the building. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Yale Law School alumnus, reportedly spoke to the students and echoed their demands for a full investigation. The protestors have reportedly been wearing black….
An ad hoc group of students called Yale Law Students Demanding Better have been planning the demonstrations since Thursday night…
The Yale students protesting Monday also intended to push for an investigation into the allegations by a neutral third party, express solidarity with victims of sexual violence and harassment, and bring attention to Kavanaugh’s potential impact as a Supreme Court justice on issues like reproductive rights. The students are also calling on the Senate to avoid treating Kavanaugh’s accusers the same way it did Anita Hill, a Yale Law School alumnus, during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991.
Samantha Peltz, a student and organizer for the group, told Slate, “[Yale Law Students Demanding Better] is really people who have come together from across the Yale Law School community to organize, to plan this protest … and to follow up with next steps for accountability and transparency at Yale.”
The law school will have a town hall on Tuesday for students to ask faculty about internal issues that this nomination process has brought to light. A majority of faculty members signed an open letter last week calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair confirmation process and marshal a neutral fact-finder to investigate the allegations…
Professors Amy Chua and husband, Jed Rubenfeld, ought to be in attendance at the Yale meeting.
Well said. I agree. I hope the population pays attention. I can’t stand what has happened to our country. S. Ford
I was hoping that someone would cover the hypocrisy between Kavanaugh’s memo to Starr and his own insistence that he be above questioning and should just be confirmed on his word.
I think Kavanaugh’s Yearbook entry and membership in the “Renate” club will doom Kavanaugh. I’m shocked it took so long for anyone to figure out what those “in-joke” references to real teenage girls were.
“You need a date / and it’s getting late / so don’t hesitate / to call Renate.”
Kavanaugh and his fellow Renate club members were so proud of it that they made sure to memorialize it permanently as one of their “activities” under their senior photos.
They were so proud of it that they posed for a “Renate Alumni” group photo to permanently memorialize it for their yearbook.
What a disgusting bunch of creeps who want to memorialize their bullying and nasty innuendo about a teen girl in their yearbook because it was one of the important highlights of their high school lives.
And now Kavanaugh’s fellow “Renate” club members say it was all innocent, just memorializing a girl they all dated despite her not remembering it. And of course, no one else seemed to have such a “club” to memorialize other girls.
Pray this holier than thou bastard is blocked. Always creeped me out by the too many gratuitous references he made to his Catholic background.
Five to Four
With Kavanaugh
Will be the score
As SCOTUS perverts the law.
A delightful verse, Fred!
I wrote every Republican and some of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee today and included the memo link within the Washington Post article, suggesting the senators review Kavanaugh’s suggested questions for President Clinton in preparation for the questions they ask Kavanaugh this Thursday. If they don’t ask questions equally explicit and direct, they are hypocrites.
Leigh Campbell-Hale: Ohhh. Good one. I’d love to see Kavanaugh give answers to the rude things he wanted Clinton to answer.
Agree with Carol.
Republicans have raised hypocrisy to an unprecedented level. They are Charles and David Koch’s functionaries. The training manual of Paul Weyrich (founder of ALEC and the Republican religious right movement- defended by men like Franklin Graham) is posted at Theocracy Watch. It is a must read
How far do we go back into ones past? Junior High? Grade school?
We object to a potential Supreme Court Justice lying under oath.
Got that?
A ruined life might have been caused 50 or 70 years ago. Why forget the cause and the person who caused it?
Ruined life?
You do not think, General, that being the victim of a sexual assault can screw up the person’s life?
Of course it can sir… just ask Juanita Brodderick and Kathleen Willey…
The General: Yes, what Bill Clinton did was wrong and what Kavanaugh did was wrong. The current topic is that Kavanaugh is not fit to be on the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas was a sexual attacker and one predator on the Court is one too many. If Anita Hill had been listened to, he should not have been approved.
What point are you trying to make?
Sir,
Have you ever been the victim of rape or attempted rape? Just wondering.
You wallow in Clinton’s misdeeds of 30 years ago, but have nothing to say about the moment we live in right now.
No mam I haven’t. And being a college student myself 40 years ago is one reason I am not totally closing the door on the possible outcome of this so called “investigation.” There have been six FBI investigations ! All six missed this event? Really? If this was truly about a sexual assault that occurred why did senator Feinstein and the Democratic Party hang on to the complaint for six months???? Because it’s not about the fair and proper treatment of women. It’s about politics, nothing else…
Why was Merrick Garland denied a hearing?
Does the Senate have to hold hearings and a vote on President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court? The Constitution says that unless the Senate gives advice and consent Garland cannot be appointed, but it does not require the Senate to do anything in response to the nomination.
Purely political
Have you ever been the victim of rape or attempted rape?
I assume not since you are a man.
It leaves scars that last forever.
But how would you know?
My understanding is that, yes, vetting of SC candidates routinely checks into earliest family/ friends/ school associations, collecting even such things as letters from grade school teachers. Getting as complete as possible a picture of a person’s character is undertaken when considering life-time appointment to the highest court in the land. Why would any American want a guy on SCOTUS who at ages 17-20 was routinely drunk out of his mind to the point of sexually assaulting several women? We can’t do better?
Ours is not an optimistic time. The ready availability of terrible news, the intense polarization of our citizenry, the daily horrific revelations about people in power, the disconnect in understanding between the wealthy few and everyone else, hectic schedules, traffic and noise, the increasingly ramped-up assaults on our senses from our advertisements and entertainments, insecurity about finances and health and prospects for the future, too little sleep, terrible eating habits–all these and more conspire to burden us psychologically and spiritually.
I remain an optimist. The #MeToo movement and the Kavanaugh business are cases in point. The debates about the stupid wall and Confederate Monuments and Charlottesville are as well. As a dear friend said to me today, in the era of Vlad’s Agent Orange, a lot of extreme ugliness that was just under the surface, here in this country, is being revealed, as when you check the crawl space in the house you’ve inherited and find that the joists are rotten with termites. BUT . . . once you’ve discovered this, once it’s out in the open, something can be done about it. “There’s a crack, a crack in everything,” Leonard Cohen wrote. “That’s how the light gets in.”
We’re in a phase transition. There’s always a lot of turbulence in such periods. Ours is a wrenching time, and we haven’t seen the worst of it, not by a long shot. But I believe–I have to believe–that out of this, beauty will be born. For one thing, our distress about the way things are generally is a RELATIVE distress. Believe me, there were worse times in history, a LOT worse.
Here’s what the aged Lucinda Matlock, in the Edgar Lee Masters poem by that name, says to us from the grave. Sometimes, it’s smart to listen to your elders:
I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
And played snap-out at Winchester.
One time we changed partners,
Driving home in the moonlight of middle June,
And then I found Davis.
We were married and lived together for seventy years,
Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,
Eight of whom we lost
Ere I had reached the age of sixty.
I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,
I made the garden, and for holiday
Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,
And by Spoon River gathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed —
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you —
It takes life to love Life.
She lost 8 of 12 children. But she sang to the green valleys as she went gathering medicinal herbs to treat them. That was how it was, in her time. She didn’t have a choice. She had to find it in herself to endure.
Make some space and quiet and beauty in your life, as you can. Step back. Breathe. Walk. Jog. Meditate. Do some yoga. Sing in the shower. Create something beautiful, even if it’s something simple, like a pie. Fight, yes. But even in the midst of the struggle, don’t let your understandable anger and frustration consume you. Have faith that though things are now ugly and are going to get uglier, there are also many signs that people in general are wiser and kinder, now, than they ever were before. For every sexist, racist, predatory, heedless jerk on an Internet thread or on a trajectory toward increased power, there are a hundred to shut him down, and over time, the jerks will learn from this. We will figure this stuff out. We will learn from the horrors of the past. And we will make a better world. We have to. It’s not like we have a choice. There are children present.
That, btw, is the advice I’m giving myself, right now, as I deal with my anger and disgust with all this. The man needs to withdraw.
Very good words, Bob. Thanks.
I wish very much that these were exceptional or isolated incidents, but an astonishingly large percentage of the women with whom I have become close, over the years, have told me such stories from their pasts–horrific stories. The unspeakable, spoken. It’s long past time that these be known. In a better future, our children’s children will honor those who were brave enough to come forward.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
“I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.”
JUDGE BRETT M. KAVANAUGH, in a letter to the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee amid fresh allegations of sexual impropriety from his years in high school and college.
Video: McConnell Accuses Democrats of ‘Trying to Destroy’ Kavanaugh
By C-SPAN
Yeah, Kavanaugh is bad news. He’s an elitist. He’s “entitled.” His high school and college days are less than glorious. He pimped for Ken Starr, and for George W. Bush. He’s lied to the Senate multiple times. He subscribes to a judicial philosophy (“originalism”) that lacks legal credibility and historical authenticity. He doesn’t like voting rights or women’s rights.
All of which is precisely why Republicans want him on the Court.
So well said!
Was former president Obama an elitist?
Intellectual elite, not class elite.
He is a liar. Hear him on Faux.
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Brett Kavanaugh: Full transcript of Fox interview
Sergio Bustos, USA TODAY Published 5:51 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2018 | Updated 7:55 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2018
MacCallum: So you’re saying that through all these years that are in question, you were a virgin?
B. Kavanaugh: That’s correct.
MacCallum: Never had sexual intercourse with anyone in high school –
B. Kavanaugh: Correct.
MacCallum: – and through what years in college since we’re probing into your personally life here?
B. Kavanaugh: Many years after. I’ll leave it at that. Many years after. And the people I went to high school with, the girls and the boys, now men and women, that I went to high school with, you know, I was good friends with them and we remain good friends. That’s how 65 people on a moments notice – 65 women – 220 people total, men and women who knew me in high school.
Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2QVWoP9
Kavanaugh told MacCallum he had never been drunk enough to misremember or forget any of his actions. Judge, however, wrote an entire memoir about being blackout drunk in high school. In Judge’s book, Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, he references a “Bart O’Kavanaugh” who vomited in a car and “passed out on his way back from a party.”
He’s lying about having been a virgin?
FLERP: Do you really believe that he went through high school and many years of college and through it all remained a virgin? I think he was lying to try to keep face with his wife. [Or does she know that he is a hypocrite… a really GOOD Catholic boy.]
It does not seem implausible to me. People, especially men, are more apt to lie about having sex than not having sex, in my experience. And lying about being a virgin is also a lie that’s very easy to get caught in. To just assume he’s lying based on— what, a gut feeling?—seems way off base to me.
FLERP!: I’m assuming that you know what the two accusers are saying. There are others who say that he was involved in drugs/drinking and gang rapes.
If he remained a virgin through all of that dirty work, he is an amazing person. He had no qualms about throwing his junk in a woman’s face and having another say that she was afraid that he would kill her. If he was a virgin, he still is a rotten person.
Yes, I’m aware of the two accusations. The first accusation seems more credible than the second. Both accusations allege extremely bad behavior, but even if both accusations were 100% true—which gives every possible inference and benefit to the accusers—neither would contradict his assertion that he was a virgin.
I will see how this plays out. I wish the process were more robust.
Of course, conversely, his assertion that he was a virgin does not contradict either of the allegations made by the two accusers.
“Do you really believe that he went through high school and many years of college and through it all remained a virgin?”
What does this have to do with the charges against him? Kavanaugh brought the issue up because…trying to change the subject?
He doesn’t call for an investigation, so I wonder what he is concerned about being revealed.
“I did not have sex with that woman.” Have Kavanaugh compare his experience with that of Monica Lewinsky.
Virgin or not, exposing himself is still against the law. My sister was traumatized by a man who did that to her when she was a little girl walking home from school. And then she had to go to court over that. It was very traumatic when it happened to me as a young adult at a party, too. I ended up hiding in the kitchen for hours. There is a lot that’s scary about that to the victims, and very good reasons why it’s against the law. It’s about intentionally asserting authority by overpowering the powerless. Those well versed in law know that only too well. The bigger man owns up to his transgressions and doesn’t tell lies under oath for personal and political gain. Kavanaugh knows better and should be facing charges of perjury.
That happened to me twice when I was a little girl. It’s truly disgusting for a man to expose himself.
flerp!,
Bill Clinton never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. That’s a true statement. It all depends on your definition of “sexual relations”.
I’m sure Kavanaugh’s insistence that he treated all high school girls with the utmost respect in high school is just as true as his claim that “No president has ever consulted more widely, or talked with more people from more backgrounds, to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination.”
Kavanaugh’s willingness to say whatever is good for his career is amply demonstrated. Honesty is not high up on his list of character traits.
“you were a virgin?
B. Kavanaugh: That’s correct.”
That’s because jerking off doesn’t count against virginity status.
“To say that the questions Kavanaugh came up with for Clinton were prurient doesn’t do justice to the gross invasiveness and detail he sought. ”
Kavanaugh did this to aid his own sexual fantasies. Some priests do this during confession for the same reason.
Let’s face it, it’s Clinton’s fault: he never should have answered any questions regarding Lewinsky.
Reblogged this on silverapplequeen and commented:
THIS.
““Please. The allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and now Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate Ramirez do not, like Lewinsky and Clinton, involve two consenting adults.”
Again, let’s not let Clinton off the hook. It’s very dicey to say that the relationship between a 21 year old intern and the president of the United States was really “consensual”. The power and maturity difference is simply too great. In any case, Clinton was also accused by multiple other women of non-consensual behavior including harassment and even rape. Let’s not use partisan politics to determine which women we believe or don’t. Kavanaugh and Clinton are both lecherous predators who think they are god’s gift to women and that they have the right to dominate women.
“The power and maturity difference is simply too great. ”
So now you want to forbid a relationship between boss and secretary? Where do you draw the line?
Let’s also not forget that there were other allegations against Clinton that involved patently non-consensual behavior. Paula Jones, for one.
Let’s not forget that Ken Starr — with help from Brett Kavanaugh — was given unlimited time, money and subpoena power to try to make the charges against Bill Clinton credible. And he tried. He subpoenaed dozens of witnesses and with the power no prosecutor had ever had went around the country getting testimony to prove the accusers’ accounts.
Meanwhile, Kavanaugh and his enablers Mitch McConnell insist that there can be no investigation and the only people who may testify are two — kavanaugh and the woman accusing him and the people offering corroborating testimony for Kavanaugh may not be cross examined but must be accepted at their word.
When Kamala Harris is given unlimited subpoena power and time to talk to dozens of witnesses to try to give more credibility to the women’s accusations and finds nothing and decides there is absolutely nothing she can offer to make Blasey into a credible witness, THEN you can compare Clinton and Kavanaugh.
To pretend they are similar now is conveniently forgetting that one of them was thoroughly investigated and the other one was thoroughly protected from investigation.
Those “other” charges weren’t ignored. Starr did everything he could to prove them. Don’t you remember him threatening witnesses for not confirming the stories?
As bad as Clinton was, he did 2 very good things: Breyer and Ginsburg. That’s big, that’s significant.
And the Evangelicals hope soon to be saying, “As bad as Trump was, he did 2 very good things: Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.”
Yes, they can boast that Trump gets credit for rolling back Roe v. Wade. Who knows, maybe Brown v. Board is on the chopping block of the far-right. They have always hated it. And Trump’s judicial nominees have consistently refused to say that they support the Brown decision.
Are you -flerp- equating Trump with Clinton? Are you equating Breyer and Ginsburg with Gorsuch and Kavanagh? You don’t see the profound difference between the liberal justices and these 2 far right wing/libertarian apparatchiks?
Yes, I am saying that Donald Trump is exactly the same as Bill Clinton. In fact, it is my assertion that they are the exact same person.
In all seriousness, I would have thought the point of my analogy was obvious. A lot of people have been willing to overlook some terrible character flaws in Bill Clinton because they approved of his policy decisions, such as his Supreme Court nominees. Much like Evangelicals are willing to overlook and make excuses for the horrific character of Donald Trump.
FLERP,
You will have to denounce JFK while you are at it.
JFK was far worse than Clinton, in terms of his womanizing.
Apparently one of the few totally faithful presidents was Truman. I always liked him.
I heard Ronan Farrow is working on a story on Truman . . . .
I doubt it. Something tells me he is still working on Kavanaugh. So much material, so little time.
Not only that, but Truman also dropped the bomb on a few hundred thousand civilians, increasing his appeal even more. 🙂
The military promised Truman that the bomb would hit only military targets, not civilians. They lied to him.
‘On August 9, 1945, Truman stated, “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.””
So Truman thought that Hiroshima is a military base, similar to Pearl Harbor? The same about Nagasaki? He was told, these are not cities with hundreds of thousands of civilians in them?
I recently listened to a program on NPR that discussed who controls nuclear weapons. The president, the military, a committee.
In 1945, Truman was told by the military that no civilians were targeted. They lied.
I disagree with these attempts to equate presidential behavior with the vetting of a candidate for life-long appointment to the highest court in the land. The president has great impact, but voters can turn the tide in a different direction in four years. The impact of SCOTUS decisions can ride for decades before change.
Off topic- Michael Moore’s new movie shows the power of protest. West Virginia teachers went out on strike despite the warnings of dire consequence from their union leaders. The teachers opposed the state’s plan to force them to wear Fitbits as part of a contract that demanded a $500 penalty for refusal to wear the tracking equipment. After winning on their monetary demands, the teachers’ union leaders wanted them to abandon the lunchroom staff and bus drivers who had supported them. The teachers stayed out on strike and labor won in unity.
Moore, in an interview with Ojedo, a candidate for congress and spokesperson for labor in the WV strike, explained the derivation of the word “redneck”. In prior labor struggles, workers wore red bandana neck kerchiefs in solidarity.
That was a later use of the term. The term originally referred to farmers who spent all day in the sun, so their skin not covered by clothing – mostly the neck – was red from sunburn. It was a derogatory term in line with “hayseed” or “hillbilly”. The term originated in 1893 and was in frequent popular usage by 1900. The red bandanna for solidarity among coal miners was around 1910 through 1930.
Interesting, thanks!
Been a redneck on and off all my life, maily depending upon whether it was winter or summer!
This also is ‘off topic’ but important. This is what we are up against…pure ignorance. Those Armenian immigrants better watch themselves.
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Michele Bachmann Explains Why Everything Donald Trump Has Touched ‘Turned To Gold’
…Bachmann, in her comments last year, said Vice President Mike Pence had assured her of Trump’s religiosity…
The onetime GOP presidential candidate expanded on that subject this year, detailing her belief that God is working through Trump.
“He has so rocked everything he’s done,” she said of the president. ’Everything he has touched has literally almost turned to gold on every level. People’s lives are better because of this one man. And I think that can’t be lost. We’ve seen an answer to our prayers from two years ago.”
Attendees at this year’s event seemed in full agreement.
A woman named Helen, who only wanted to give her first name and said she was an Armenian immigrant, was at the summit with her sister, also an immigrant.
“We 100% support President Trump,” she said. “We are here because we are Christians and also because [we support] Trump. He is the best we’ve ever had.”
A man named Kevin, who also didn’t want to give his last name, described himself as in “complete and utter shock” that he came to fully support Trump. But he said he believed Trump has “honored God” and, like Bachmann, he now believes God is working through him…
Article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michele-bachmann-values-voter-summit-donald-trump_us_5ba9177ce4b0375f8f9f5cbb
That is so bizarre, so as to be on the level of science fiction. What planet do these people live on in which Trump is considered a gift from God?! If it weren’t so serious it would be laughable. Michele Bachmann is a total freaking 100% far right wing nut job.
apparently nut jobs seek their own
The disdain on the face of Kavanaugh when questioned throughout the confirmation hearing has been very alarming to me. He claims to want a fair process but in this arena, he and his party have thwarted due process at every turn. The most egregious political actors are those who know the law very well and use that knowledge to try to circumvent laws. As Kavanaugh dodges and refuses to answer questions that don’t suit him, it’s apparent that for him, self-righteous indignation and the quest for power trump the need to reveal truth.
We should not accept that demeanor in any government official, let alone an educated attorney and experienced judge who is seeking a job for life on the highest court that interprets and determines our most important truths.
“. . .that interprets and determines our most important truths.”
Ummm, NO!
The Supreme Court does not determine “our most important truths”. It determines interpretations of the law, nothing more. Truth and justice may or may not come into play in those determinations.
“It determines interpretations of the law, nothing more.”
Insert “political and ideological” right after “determines”.
Oh, so interpretations may be fallacies and truth be damned, so that those on the highest court in the land can inflict their religious beliefs and service to corporations on us, when denying the people our constitutional rights, huh? We might as well be appointing the truth-challenged Trump himself to that kangaroo court.
Here are some whoppers put out by the Supreme Court. We don’t need any more decisions that destroy.
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13 Worst Supreme Court Decisions of All Time – U.S. Supreme Court
Every once in awhile, the Supreme Court will decide a case that has widespread social and political… – People and Events
And some are downright terrible. For every Brown v. Board of Ed., there’s a Buck v. Bell. Indeed, there are enough horrendous Supreme Court opinions to fill a book, or at least a blog post, and many of the Court’s worst decisions still stand as good law. Here is our overview of the 13 most terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decisions.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857): Hands down the worst Supreme Court decision ever, Dred Scott held that African Americans, whether free men or slaves, could not be considered American citizens…
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Let’s just say that the intentions are good but the outcomes, well. . . . . .
I find it very hard to believe their intentions are good. They come off more like they’ve sold their souls and are morally bankrupt, as suggested today by Andy Borowitz in:
“Republican Party Declares Moral Bankruptcy
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Republican Party officially filed for moral bankruptcy on Tuesday morning, a move that many in the nation considered long overdue.
In filing for moral bankruptcy, the Republicans will formally attest that they have no morals, standards, or ethics on their balance sheet, and will agree to cease all activity as a political party in exchange for indemnity from any and all legal actions.
Harland Dorrinson, a Washington attorney who specializes in moral bankruptcies, said that, by making its moral vacuum official, the G.O.P. could theoretically break itself up and sell off the parts, but, he warned, “There are no buyers.”
“From Lindsey Graham to Ted Cruz to Mitch McConnell to Chuck Grassley, all of the Republican Party’s assets could only be described as toxic,” he said. “Their breakup value is zero.”
Further complicating such a sale, Dorrinson said, is the fact that the lion’s share of the Republican Party is already owned by the National Rifle Association, Koch Industries, and the Russian government.
“All of those entities are going to take a major loss on their investment,” he warned. “The Kochs have been trying to sell Paul Ryan for months, and they can’t give him away.”
While bemoaning the demise of a once legitimate political party, Dorrinson did see one silver lining. “The bankruptcy of the Republican Party will be presided over by Donald Trump, and no one has more experience in this area,” he said”
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republican-party-declares-moral-bankruptcy
Like the humor, especially the last line: “The bankruptcy of the Republican Party will be presided over by Donald Trump, and no one has more experience in this area,” he said”
But what I meant was that in their own minds they see what they are doing as good. The vast majority of people do so. Very few go around with harmful intentions, what we consider to be psychopaths or sociopaths.
Now I can’t get inside of anyone’s head but I can analyze their actions (actions include language usage-speech, writings, etc. . . ) and the consequences and attempt at that point to determine whether the effects are good or bad. I’m not into playing “mind analyzing games”.
I much prefer to believe in the inherent goodness of people myself and have struggled a lot with the overwhelmingly negative views of humankind today. I would suggest that the worst we are seeing in people often comes down to group-think, since people can differ considerably when known on a more personal basis, where they might be less influenced by the extremists and dogma in their affiliations.
Yes, agree on that groupthink aspect!
Very pathetic, Yale needs to step up and address the atmosphere of the school and why it is allowed they cant be that dense not to know what was going on. Or is it don’t fix it if no one is complaining. I fear for our democracy, we are just 99 percent corrupt, from the management companies to charters, no learning taking place and children being put in cages. Some good union leaders and many bad ones who sell everyone out in order to get a political position.
Can you just imagine the talk in the teacher lounge at Georgetown Prep? I’m sure they are doing their best to portray a different atmosphere. The same stuff still goes on with these elite schools within these elite communities….the country club districts on the outskirts of DC. It has always been like this and will likely always stay the same way. I have lived my whole life on the outskirts of this and it has always been this way.
Yale change? On staff, it’s got Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, who vetted law clerks for Kavanaugh and her husband. (Above the Law reported the ongoing “investigation” of Jed Rubenfeld).
Amy Chua wrote recently that law clerks for Kavanaugh had to “look like models.”
Chua denied it and students called her a liar.
“no learning taking place”
Please explain what you mean by that statement because as it stands it’s a crock.
Michael Avenatti says new Brett Kavanaugh accuser will come forward before Thursday
…Avenatti says that he has a client who knew Kavanaugh in high school and accused him of setting up girls to be raped.
“When the American people hear from her, they will determine, as I have, that she is to be believed,” Avenatti said during a press conference Monday evening. Kavanaugh called that claim outrageous.
He has not identified the accuser yet but said that her name will be revealed within the next 48 hours. He offered some details on her background, including that she worked for the U.S. Mint, Justice Department and State Department….
Ford’s lawyers responded to McConnell’s remarks, saying they were “inconsistent” with the Senate Judiciary Committee’s pledge to provide Ford a “fair and credible” process…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-avenatti-says-new-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-will-come-forward-before-thursday/
I saw Avenatti last night on TV. I can’t stand the way he builds interest with teasing.
He should put his client forward and stop dropping hints and clues.
I found him entertaining at first, but no longer. Avenatti is all about Avenatti. Trump-esque in his own way.
If Avenatti is the person who can beat Trump in 2020, all criticism of him can wait until after he wins the WH, as a WFP or Dem candidate.
Students Call on Harvard Law to Bar Kavanaugh from Teaching Pending Probe Into Sexual Assault Allegations
By Aidan F. Ryan, Crimson Staff Writer
5 days ago
Updated: Sept. 23, 5:22 p.m.
…Four Law School students — Molly M.E Coleman, Yaacov “Jake” Meiseles, Alexandra “Vail” Kohnert-Yount, and Sejal Singh — demanded the University prevent Kavanaugh from teaching in Cambridge in an opinion piece published in the Harvard Law Record Thursday.
The students wrote that they want to know whether the Law School will “take seriously the credible allegation of Kavanaugh’s sexual assault against a young woman before he is allowed to continue teaching young women.” The piece also notes that Kavanaugh was paid “$27,490 for 9 days of teaching” in 2017.
Law School spokespersons did not respond to requests for comment.
Kavanaugh first started teaching at the Law School about a decade ago when he was hired by then-Dean Elena Kagan, who now sits on the Supreme Court. From 2008 to 2015, Kavanaugh taught a class on the separation of powers. Since 2014, he has taught a course on the modern Supreme Court — the same class he is supposed to teach this winter…
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/9/21/hls-kavanaugh-pipeline-reaction/
Thanks for the info. The future will be charted by the millennials’ activism. Only 18% of them voted in 2016.
Reblogged this on Lloyd Lofthouse and commented:
Republicans have long operated under a wildly generous “do as I say, not as I do” standard, even as they castigate Democratic rivals for the tiniest infraction. When it comes to living up to the standards they would impose on others, Republicans escaped that accountability for so long that they appear blindsided when called to explain their actions.
I would say there are a lot of people who don’t want Kavanaugh near the Supreme Court. I’m sure the old white men don’t hear or see the protests.
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Kavanaugh protests escalate, over 120 arrested on Capitol Hill
By CHEYENNE HASLETT Sep 24, 2018, 7:04 PM ET
National protests against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh escalated on Monday with more than 120 people arrested on Capitol Hill, celebrities weighing in on social media, and nationwide walkouts.
Capitol Hill police said 128 people were arrested for “unlawfully demonstrating” outside of senators’ offices and in the main rotunda of the Russell Senate Building. About half as many protesters were arrested for protesting Kavanaugh on Thursday.
The protests were organized by various groups, including the Women’s March, Planned Parenthood, NARAL and others who strongly oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination…
Around the same time as the majority of the arrests, walkouts were also taking place in workplaces and schools around the country – including at Yale – by women and men wearing black.
He now can brag about being the only leader in the world who was laughed at by the whole UN. What an accomplishment!! Best in history!!!
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Trump is laughed at by the world…Trump addresses General Assembly of U.N.
Martin Cizmar
Published on Sep 25, 2018
I hear you.. I want my justices of the highest court of the land to be beyond reproach when it comes to their knowledge of the law and the interpretation of the law with regards to our constitution..
“I want my justices of the highest court of the land to be beyond reproach when it comes to their knowledge of the law and the interpretation of the law with regards to our constitution..”
What if a justice, who raped some people, but does know and interprets the laws well, has to decide on a rape case? Would his personal experience affect his decisions?
Why should it?
How do you know the judge raped some people??
General, here is a recap of the argument
We say: we need to know if a judge raped somebody in his past.
You say: all I care about if he knows and interprets the law properly
We say: but if he raped somebody, he won’t be objective in a rape case or possibly other cases, regardless of his knowledge of the law.
At this point, the argument is over since we gave a perfectly logical explanation why we care about the rape or sexual assault in the judge’s past. Only a troll would try to continue. So he/she does.
You say: How do you know the judge raped somebody?
which of course brings us back to the beginning of the argument: we do need to find out if the judge raped somebody because if he did, he would be able to be objective.
Your child needs a life-saving emergency medical procedure. There are two doctors available to perform the procedure. One doctor struggled to get into medical school, may have even attended medical school outside the country. He has had his medical license suspended twice. However, he has a clean criminal record. Not even a traffic ticket! The second doctor attended the best private prep schools and colleges in the country. Graduated at the top of his class from medical school. Was recruited by the best hospitals and teaching universities in the country. He teaches other doctors the procedure your child will need! The only blemish on the doctor’s record is that he was accused of sexual assault when he was 17. Whom do you choose to perform the life-saving procedure on your child?
tad: This is NOT the situation that is being discussed on this blog. The nominee for the highest court in the land now has three women who say he was sexually abusive. One says he was involved in getting girls drugged and drunk so that they could be gang raped.
Is this the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court? I’m sure there are others who don’t have this on their record.
Kavanaugh has said that he is against birth control and abortions. He obviously doesn’t care for helping women. He is for corporations and is against unions. He obviously doesn’t care about workers. [Being this elite doesn’t help him have any compassion for average people. If this type of behavior is acceptable at elite high schools and colleges then I’m for public schools. Apparently the administration and teachers are afraid of the wealth of their students and they can get away with abusive behavior.]
Ok.. understand your stance.. trying to keep an open mind.. we’ll see.. would of been nice if you made a choice though.. good luck to you!!
TAD, this is the usual politician argument: we do not have time to investigate, we have an emergency, so we have to act fast. No, we are not in the ER when we try to choose a supreme court judge for life, so we should carefully investigate.
If you want to compare this judge selection to doctor selection, compare it with selecting a family doctor. I want to find the best and for a long term, and luckily I have time to find the best one, and I certainly will avoid the one with shady history. I can afford to do that since there are plenty of decent choices of docs.
The same is true for judges: there are many great choices, just the presidents always want to choose a judge sharing the worldview of the president.
In any case, these kinds of false equivalences are pointless: even without his possible past history with women, Kavanaugh’s past in law is not impeccable to put it mildly. For one, we expect him to make politically/ideologically motivated decisions. After all, he is called a “conservative judge” which in itself refers to bias law interpretation on his part.
“Wouldn’t”
Kavanaugh’s ‘choir boy’ image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates
Author: Aaron C. Davis, Emma Brown, Joe Heim, The Washington Post
…But Brookes, Ramirez’s roommate for a year, said she was present one night when Kavanaugh participated in an event with his fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Brookes said she believes there was “no way” he remembered all of the behavior she observed that night, when fraternity brothers pushed pledges to get “ridiculously drunk” and do “ridiculous things.”
Brookes said she remembers seeing Kavanaugh outside the Sterling Memorial Library, wearing a superhero cape and an old leather football helmet and swaying, working to keep his balance.
He was ordered to hop on one foot, grab his crotch and approach her with a rhyme, Brookes said. He couldn’t keep balanced, she said, but belted out the rhyme she’s remembered to this day: “I’m a geek, I’m a geek, I’m a power tool. When I sing this song, I look like a fool.”
“It’s a funny, drunk college story that you remember – at least, I remember,” Brookes said. As she tracked his career over the years, and his rise in the federal court system, she said, “I thought it was so funny to think that’s the Brett who sang that song.”..
Amar, the professor, wrote Monday in the Yale Daily News that a probe would be the “best way forward.”
“If the investigation’s facts and findings support him, then he will join the Court in the sunshine and not under a cloud,” he wrote…
http://www.adn.com/nation-world/2018/09/26/kavanaughs-choir-boy-image-on-fox-interview-rankles-former-yale-classmates/
Yes, totally agree..
This is disgusting. The Senate Judiciary Committee is proving that Ford’s testimony means nothing. They are in a hurry. Can’t have all the information…just hurry, hurry.
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US lawmakers set a date for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled the vote for 9:30am ET on Friday, less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court nominee and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault, will testify in front of the panel. Senator Dianne Feinstein blasted the move, saying, “Republicans don’t even need to hear her before they move ahead with a vote.”
And here is what Faux ‘News” is reporting. Carlson obviously doesn’t have a clue about what is involved. WOMEN are now responsible for this problem continuing to exist.
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Tucker Carlson Criticizes Rape Victims Who Don’t Report: ‘You’re Part Of The Problem’
09/26/2018 12:12 am ET
“What about the rest of us?” the Fox News host asked.
By David Barden
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has slammed sexual assault survivors who don’t report their abusers, labeling them as “part of the problem” for not fulfilling their “obligation to tell us.”
It’s the second time in as many weeks that Carlson has blamed victims of abuse for failing to protect “the other 320 million people who live here” while discussing the allegations leveled by research psychologist Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh…
Article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-rape-victims-problem-fox-news_us_5baaf96ee4b0f101d383c35b
So Senators are being told to stay so that this can be taken care of QUICKLY!!! The GOP definitely is taking Trump’s style…admit nothing, accuse the victim and then go to Fox. This is not democracy in action.
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The Daily 202: Trump’s attacks on Kavanaugh’s second accuser show why the GOP hired a woman to question Ford
James Hohmann, The Washington Post Published 9:57 am EDT, Wednesday, September 26, 2018
–Nervous that more damaging revelations about Kavanaugh could still emerge and prodded by Trump in private phone calls, Senate Republicans have decided to step up the pace to get Kavanaugh across the finish line. Even before Ford’s testimony, the majority scheduled a mark-up for 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning to advance Kavanaugh out of committee. They’re also considering the unusual step of keeping the Senate in session through the weekend so that they can run down the clock and force a vote of the full Senate next Tuesday – or possibly earlier. GOP leaders told their members during a closed-door caucus lunch Tuesday that they should prepare to stay in Washington this weekend for Kavanaugh and not plan to return home to their states….
“GOP adopts Trump’s tactics in Kavanaugh battle,” Annie Linskey writes on the front page of the Boston Globe: “Deny the accusation. Attack the victims. Then soothe the political base by going on Fox News to explain it all away. And most importantly: Never back down. That’s the playbook President Trump has used to sidestep multiple allegations of womanizing and sexual misconduct against him. And there was a time these tactics made the Republican establishment both nauseous and nervous. But in another sign of how Trump has taken over the GOP, he and Republicans . . . have ripped up the rules for a high court confirmation and adopted Trump’s battle-tested, hyper-combative ways for the Kavanaugh fight. They’re turning the confirmation process into a drawn out, sex-infused slugfest that court-watchers say is topping the list of partisan court nominee battles.”..
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/The-Daily-202-Trump-s-attacks-on-Kavanaugh-s-13259229.php?utm_campaign=email-desktop&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social
“Nervous that more damaging revelations about Kavanaugh could still emerge and prodded by Trump in private phone calls, Senate Republicans have decided to step up the pace to get Kavanaugh across the finish line. ”
Democracy always works slow, hence any kind of call for quick action wants to circumvent democracy.
Somehow I find it most pathetic that the 11 old white men on the Republican side are bringing in a female prosecutor to question Dr. Blasey as they don’t want to appear to be picking on her. They found a woman to do their dirty work.
Avenatti releases client’s identity, allegations against Kavanaugh
…“I witnessed Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct, including being overly aggressive with girls and not taking ‘No’ for an answer. This conduct included the fondling and grabbing of girls without their consent,” Swetnick writes.
“I also witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be ‘gang raped’ in a side room or bedroom by a ‘train’ of numerous boys … These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh … In approximately 1982, I became the victim of one of these ‘gang’ or ‘train’ rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present,” she added.
She said she was drugged during the gang rape of which she was a victim, but has “a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/408490-avenatti-releases-clients-identity-allegations-against-kavanaugh
Meant to reply to your comment.
The conduct alleged in this affidavit is so horrendous, so utterly foul, that it must immediately be investigated by Maryland authorities. Frankly I have a very difficult time comprehending how someone could witness multiple gang rapes at parties and not only not report that to law enforcement (or anyone else? I don’t think that’s clear from her declaration), but would also keep going to those parties. Regardless, though, these allegations require a full-blown criminal investigation.
Kavanaugh’s lawyer said exactly that on CNN today. Why did she go to more than one of those parties?
If you credit the timeline in her declaration, then she continued to go to the parties even after she became a victim of one of the gang rapes. (She says this happened to her in 1982, and that she attended these parties from 1981 through 1983.)
Looking again at her declaration, I see that she does say that she told two people about her rape shortly after it happened.
This boggles my mind on several levels. The only takeaway I’m really able to formulate is that this needs to be the subject of a full-blown criminal investigation.
The one thing the Republicans will not permit is a full-blown investigation, or even a half-blown one.
They do not want any investigation.
The third accuser’s tale is extreme, and the Republicans’ refusal to investigate anything at all is equally weird
This has become a political nightmare for the Republicans. But I think the time has come to hit the pause button on Kavanaugh. The Republicans should either make clear to the White House that Kavanaugh needs to withdraw his name, or they need to do what is necessary to provide an appropriate process that would let the Committee hear testimony from the relevant witnesses before the nomination goes to the full Senate for an up-or-down vote. Mitch McConnell is a formidable politician and he’s doing his own calculus, but at this point I would counsel the White House to withdraw Kavanaugh and start over.
Luckily, whether a criminal investigation happens is a matter for state and local police in Maryland, not the U.S. Senate. The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have no power to prevent it. And Maryland authorities simply have to do it.
My prediction.
McConnell will ram this nomination through.
Unless Collins, Murkowski, and Flake vote no, he will be confirmed. There is no doubt that the Republican members of the committee—except Sen Flake—are determined to conform K, no meet what Blasey-Ford says or how cemtedible she is. If they wanted to get to the bottom of these issues, they would have insisted on reopening the FBI investigation. They don’t want to know.
If I knew you in real life, I would take the other side of that bet. I just read that there’s yet another allegation against Kavanaugh. But you could be right. Getting Kavanaugh on the Court is a gigantic political win that pays dividends over the long term, far beyond the implications of a midterm election.
I hope I am wrong.
By the way, you and many other regulars are being put into moderation and I don’t know why.
I was thinking of writing a post to warn readers but didn’t want to burden anyone with yet another post.
Just know that it ain’t my fault. You are not being punished. Unless you are. And only the Shadow knows.
Replying again to you, Diane, but this time masking the name-that-shall-not-be-named with an asterisk to avoid moderation.
This has become a political nightmare for the Republicans. But I think the time has come to hit the pause button on Kvanaugh. The Republicans should either make clear to the White House that Kvanaugh needs to withdraw his name, or they need to do what is necessary to provide an appropriate process that would let the Committee hear testimony from the relevant witnesses before the nomination goes to the full Senate for an up-or-down vote. Mitch McConnell is a formidable politician and he’s doing his own calculus, but at this point I would counsel the White House to withdraw K*vanaugh and start over.
Luckily, whether a criminal investigation happens is a matter for state and local police in Maryland, not the U.S. Senate. The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have no power to prevent it. And Maryland authorities simply have to do it.
Wow, those asterisks had a totally different effect. Didn’t anticipate that one.
FLERP!,
I hope you realize that AT THE TIME young women blamed themselves for their rape.
I mean, how many stories of actresses posing RIGHT NEXT to Harvey Weinstein smiling AFTER he assaulted him do you need?
Even that remarkable story in the NY Times by the actress Lupita nyong’o detailing Harvey Weinstein’s assaults on her should have given you pause before writing this comment. Even after he assaulted her once (which she luckily escaped), she questioned her own judgement and met with him again.
You go to those parties because your friends are there and you blame yourself for being one of the stupid girls who drank too much.
Why aren’t you asking why the boys went to those parties? To commit crimes with their friends? Or did they convince themselves they weren’t really rapists?
This comment is totally off topic, but one that people should know about. I had my taxes revised in April and am supposed to get some refunds from the government for each back year starting in 2014. I still haven’t received one check. I went to my tax office and the lady had me fill out a Power of Attorney. She said this happens regularly now because the IRS is so badly underfunded that anyone on their own will not be able to get money back. There is a fellow in her office who takes care of this and he will be working on my case. She said this happens now because refunds have to be done by hand.
There are not enough people working at the IRS to refund people’s money!
A fellow came to clean out my furnace. He said that his mother was supposed to get a refund and she never got it.
What is this country coming to when people can’t get their money back from the US Treasury? This underfunding of everything is reaching critical proportions. Who suffers?I’m sure it isn’t the wealthy.
Fortunately, I have someone knowledgeable working on my case. [This check is for over a thousand dollars.]
Is this the latest trick on how to fund the government…keep people’s money. Sounds like the GOP to me. I’m a ‘greedy’ person who wants my money!!
Our Liar-in-Chief adds one more lie to his list. I’m sure the Orange Grab-em-by-the-Pussy was always wrongly accused. He also proves once again just how eloquently he can phrase words.
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White House in ‘red alert crisis’ as Trump defends Kavanaugh and laments #MeToo
President denies that accusations of sexual harassment brought against him influenced his thinking about Mr Kavanaugh’s accusers…
“I’ve had a lot of false charges made against me, really false charges,” he added. “I know friends that have had false charges. People want fame. They want money. They want whatever. So when I see it, I view it differently then somebody sitting home watching television, where they say, ‘Oh, Judge Kavanaugh this or that.’ It’s happened to me many times.”…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-brett-kavanaugh-defence-me-too-dangerous-new-york-interview-a8557011.html
How to handle sexual misconduct hearings, in Kavanaugh’s own words
By Ephrat Livni2 hours ago
If Kavanaugh is held to the standard he articulated for president Bill Clinton when working for the Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr in 1998, during an investigation into the president’s relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky, the hearings will not be easy. At the time, Kavanaugh authored a memo, entitled “Slack for the President?” The answer to the memo’s titular question was, basically, “No.” Kavanaugh wrote then:
After reflecting this evening, I am strongly opposed to giving the President any “break” in the questioning regarding details of the Lewinsky relationship…I have tried hard to bend over backwards and to be fair to him and to think of all reasonable defenses to his pattern of behavior. In the end, I am convinced that there really are none. The idea of going easy on him at the questioning is thus abhorrent to me.
These make his previous assessment of the president’s behavior all the more poignant. In 1998 Kavanaugh stated of Clinton:
He should be made to account for all of that and to defend his actions. It may not be our job to impose sanctions on him—but it is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear—piece by painful piece…I am mindful of the need for respect…But in my view, given what we know, the Office of the President will best be served by our gathering the full facts regarding the actions of this President so that Congress can decide whether the interests of the Presidency would best be served by having a new President.
In other words, Kavanaugh understands as well as anybody why people might be unhappy to see a man retain or attain power without the proper character for a lofty position. As the nominee himself noted two decades ago, “More to the point. Aren’t we failing to fulfill our duty to the American people if we willingly conspire with the President in an effort to conceal the true nature of his acts?”
Perhaps then, he can sympathize with the many Americans who are demanding that Kavanaugh be able to live up to the standard he eloquently expressed himself twenty years ago, if he is to become a Supreme Court justice.
https://qz.com/1403893/how-to-handle-sexual-misconduct-hearings-in-kavanaughs-own-words/
She says that Kavanaugh should not be on the Supreme Court.
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EXCLUSIVE: Julie Swetnick Meets With John Heilemann | THE CIRCUS | SHOWTIME
The Circus
Published on Sep 27, 2018
In this exclusive interview, John Heilemann meets with Julie Swetnick, the third woman to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh.
I find this to be VERY interesting. Lindsey Graham is standing up for Ford and says a serial rapist would continue his actions.
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Graham ‘very suspicious’ after third Kavanaugh accusation
(Alice Li, Rhonda Colvin/The Washington Post)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) reacted Sept. 26 to news of attorney Michael Avenatti representing a third Kavanaugh accuser.
Video: https://wapo.st/2zwLZD0