New SCOTUS Judge II: The Wrath of Kavanaugh

Bob001 said:
A bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard
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It's Shakespeare's words though that matter:
Shakespeare's phrase, "hoist with his own petard", is an idiom that means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap", implying that one could be lifted (blown) upward by one's own bomb, or in other words, be foiled by one's own plan.
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Not that I knew that without looking at your link. :p
 
acbytesla said:
No one would be investigating Kavanaugh unless he was up for a lifetime position on the Supreme Court.
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The Dimms new buzzword is "lifetime".

However, if Kavanaugh isn't confirmed (very unlikely), will they object in the event Trump decides to make him his new Attorney General.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
He could always say he tried to stop it, maybe confess he wasn't forceful enough and he was sorry.

For that matter both of them could apologize and we might all be moving on. Instead we have self preservation at Ford's expense. Such Godly men.
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Yeah... the stuff that makes for a fair and noble supreme court justice, no doubt.

So many ways Kavanaugh could have approached this situation... kept his dignity, kept her dignity. But instead he chose the low-hanging fruit approach.

Needless to say, Kavanaugh will be the next new supreme court justice.

Then the circus really begins.

You have my sympathies.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Yeah. He's succumbed to tribalism, as have most on the thread. He's already decided on Kavanaugh's "rapey ways" with nothing even remotely approaching justification.
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No tribalism necessary.

His actions and words, Judge's actions and words, and Republicans' actions and words, all helped to make my decision for me.

With all my unfounded opinions and thought processes, it's a damn good thing I'm not a supreme court justice. You can now sleep better tonight. Whew!

:rolleyes:
 
More evidence that Ford and Kav were acquainted:
On 13 occasions, Kavanaugh refers to someone named “Squi” on his calendar. It’s the name that crops up the most. Kavanaugh and Squi, who played on the Georgetown Prep football team with him, went to a Washington Bullets game, to Squi’s house in Rehoboth, to see movies, to the beach. On July 1, Kavanaugh, Judge, PJ, Squi and two others go to “Timmy’s for skis” -- an apparent reference to going to a friend’s house for beers (“brewskis”).

Squi was apparently also close to Ford.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ut-kavanaughs-defense/?utm_term=.5b17713b40a6
 
It turns out that when you don't allow the majority of relevant witnesses to be interviewed it takes no time to complete a background check.

Officials said the F.B.I.’s “limited” supplemental background check of Judge Kavanaugh could be finished by Monday morning. Set in motion late last week by three Senate Republicans, the inquiry was supposed to shed further light on accusations that Judge Kavanaugh engaged in sexual misconduct during his high school and college years and help resolve the fierce national debate over whether he should win confirmation to the Supreme Court.

But the investigation’s apparent narrow reach has infuriated the judge’s critics, who said he should be subjected to a wide-ranging examination of his drinking and possible sexual misconduct.

Instead, the F.B.I. was directed by the White House and Senate Republicans to interview just four people: Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth, high school friends of Judge Kavanaugh’s; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of one of Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers, Christine Blasey Ford; and Deborah Ramirez, another of the judge’s accusers.
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The Great Zaganza said:
you know that how?

PS: the job is reserved for Lindsay Graham
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Ya think? Personally, I think Lindsey is auditioning for Pence's job. I can see Trump dropping Mike from the bottom of the ticket. Graham doesn't have the deep deep conservative support but he's a tried and true cracker gentleman of the old school and has hard line conservative support.
 
Graham is a pilot fish, always has, always will be - and I think he knows it. He always picks a leader to attach himself to. For a while, it was McCain, but when it became clear that he wouldn't be around much longer, he switched to Trump.
But I don't think he is foolish enough to end up in a position where he might accidentally become President.
 
Stacko said:
Rule 1.2: Promoting Confidence in the Judiciary

A judge shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence,* integrity,* and impartiality* of the judiciary, and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.​

I think he's failed in this regard spectacularly.
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I was actually shocked to see snippets of his testimony. His only job was to look like a Justice and let the partisans take their jabs. Stand in the ring and look like you belong there. That is all. That was the winning move.

Instead he swung for the fences and has ended up on his face.

Prior to his testimony, even after Ford's testimony, I would have given him a 100% chance of being confirmed. Now, maybe 70%. If he is not confirmed, all he has to do is watch the video of his testimony and focus on his wife's face. That is the face of a woman watching a man she loves going down the wrong path.
 
Minoosh said:
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But I still see evasion on Kavanaugh's part in the way he answered. Especially when he was asked if he'd ever blacked out and he said to the questioner, "Have you?" Also, the way he used so many words and went off on so many tangents to avoid a categorical "no." I give him a strange kind of credit for this.

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That was a different questioner, Sen. Klobuchar, during questions which took place after the exchange with Rachel Mitchell that I posted upthread.

At that juncture, I think that Kavanaugh had realized that his responses to Mitchell had dug him into a hole he needed to try and get out of. Sadly for him, he endeavored to accomplish this by continuing to dig.
 
River said:
They did submit statements under oath, under penalty of a felony if false statements were made. Their statements support the accused, not the accuser.
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https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1045832561300103170

is it just me or is "under penalty of felony" a phrase someone just made up?
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https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1045836322823319553

In fact -- if you sign something "under penalty of felony," and lie, I'm not confident that's perjury. I kind of suspect it's not.
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