Republicans led by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are moving at break neck speed to get Brett Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court. But it is the words of another Republican and former Supreme Court Judge thats making news today.
Justice John Paul Stevens, a onetime supporter of Brett Kavanaugh, has changed his mind and now says that Kavanaugh should not be confirmed as the next Justice on the Supreme Court. Roberts mentioned Kavanaugh’s disgraceful performance during his confirmation hearings, where he clearly expressed political biases as his reason for disqualifying Brett.
Meanwhile, Republicans have already set a vote on Friday and a final vote on Saturday to put Kavanaugh on the Court.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, told a small crowd in Boca Raton that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s performance at confirmation hearings should disqualify him. “The Senators should pay attention to this.” pic.twitter.com/LdsJTuPGIx
In an appearance on MSNBC, Professor Eddie Glaude, MSNBC Contributor was visibly upset at the blatant in-your-face crap that Mitch McConnel and the Republicans are force-feeding the American people.
Glaude said that he was “viscerally angry” because Mitch McConnell “sat there and lied!” Glaude was referring to the way Republicans are fast-tracking Kavanaugh’s confirmation, willfully ignoring established standards in his nomination.
McConnell has decided that the American people do not deserve to know the truth about the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh’s sexual abuse accusations.
“[McConnell] is the poster child of a kind of hypocrisy that is simply eroding the very fabric of this country,” Glaude continued. “These people think that we are Boo-Boo the fool. They think Americans are just stupid… We have to do something here, otherwise we are witnessing the twilight of our civilization!”
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 02: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) talks to reporters with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (L) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol October 02, 2018 in Washington, DC. Senate GOP leaders agreed last week with the Judiciary Committee to allow the FBI to conduct a one-week investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate votes on his confirmation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Huffington Post is that the report from the FBI’s background investigation into the sexual assault allegations leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be shown only to members of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday.
“We will get an FBI report soon. It will be made available to each senator and only senators will be allowed to look at it. That’s the way these reports are always handled,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill, noting that background investigations are typically added to a nominee’s file for senators to access.
Still, there’s an argument to be made that the extraordinary nature of the current situation merits the public at least being able to view the report’s results.
“There’s a growing consensus in the Senate that when the FBI’s investigation is complete, the finding should be released publicly with any personal information redacted,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
Just when you start having some hope that Jeff Flake would do the right thing and objectively look at the FBI report before making his decision, he smacks you in the face with the realization that he is a Republican and as such, will do exactly what his party demands – get in line and vote to confirm accused sexual molester, Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
CNN’s Manu Raju confronted Flake today and asked a few pointed questions. One question was to state his thoughts on Trump’s recent mocking of Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christie Blasey Ford. Flake courageously stepped to the plate and called Trump’s statements “appalling.”
But it was Flake’s answer to the question about whether Brett Kavanaugh was totally honest during his sworn testimony that took the wind out of the #Metoo sails. Flake’s answer clearly showed that his mind is already made up and barring any unforeseen circumstance in the FBI report, Flake will vote ‘yes’ on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Raju asked, “You said that if there are demonstrable falsehoods and lies, that would be disqualifying. There have been instances where it appears he was not fully forthcoming with the Senate Judiciary Committee about his past and his antics in college. Does that bother you?”
Flake replied, “I don’t know specifically what you are talking about.”
Flake then goes on in a desperate attempt to down-play Kavanaugh’s drinking problem. He settled on this answer:
“The drinking think, I don’t know how to gauge that, I really don’t.”
He continued. “I’ve said all along, you know if anybody lies under oath, that not something we can deal with.” Flake then concluded “exaggerating or diminishing your successes or failures is something a lot of people are used to.”
Kavanaugh just got a pass from Flake. Next stop, The Supreme Court… despite what the FBI report says.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) listens as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee meet to vote on the nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to be a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg - RC145A7FAFA0
He is one of a few Senators who holds the Brett Kavanaugh-for-Supreme-Court nomination in his hands. His decision can sink or help Kavanaugh sail through to a seat on the Supreme Court. So when Arizona Senator Jeff Flake talk these days, people tend listen and try to guess which way he will vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination in a few days.
In a recent interview by the National Constitution Center, the Senator spoke about the recent Kavanaugh testimony where Kavanaugh loudly praised himself as a virgin choir boy who did nothing wrong, and one who certainly did not sexually assault Christie Blasey Ford when he was seventeen years old.
“I was very troubled by the tone of the remarks,” Flake says, referring to the obviously partisan way the judge berated the Democrats on the panel for asking about the sexual abuse accusations against him.
“The initial defense that Judge Kavanaugh gave was something… like I told my wife, I hope I wouldn’t sound that indignant if I felt I was unjustly maligned.”
But then it went on, and the interaction with the members was sharp and partisan. And that concerns me. And I tell myself you give a little leeway because of what he’s been through.
On the other hand, we can’t have this on the court. We simply can’t
Watch clip below
https://youtu.be/ezebaBXXa7Q
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