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
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