UglyCasanova
Lifer
- Mar 25, 2001
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UglyCasanova
Lifer
- Mar 25, 2001
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...r-fbi-probe-should-not-have-artificial-limits
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, said on Friday that "artificial limits" should not be placed on the FBI as it reopens its background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"No artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation," Katz said in a statement.
Ah of course, this isn’t political at all.
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, said on Friday that "artificial limits" should not be placed on the FBI as it reopens its background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"No artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation," Katz said in a statement.
Ah of course, this isn’t political at all.
IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
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UglyCasanova
Lifer
- Mar 25, 2001
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As is the request to keep it open ended. Not saying the midterms have anything to do with it, but if it just so happens to take that long well by golly it just does. We can’t have someone on the Supreme Court that might have almost did something back in high school..
Oh, please. The investigation is just a little lube for the big stroke right to the shorthairs.
IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
- 72,899
- 34,003
- 136
Oh, I know that. It does give Kavanaugh another opportunity to commit even more perjury.
UglyCasanova
Lifer
- Mar 25, 2001
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It’s frankly amazing that Republicans are pushing to confirm a guy who has lied left and right.
Actually no, it’s not. Trump is president. Conservatives clearly don’t care about lies anymore.
He lied about not being a party hack-
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/kavanaugh-testimony-supreme-court.html
Leftists are out to get him! Go ahead- tell us he's capable of being a neutral arbiter of the truth with that shit in his head.
UglyCasanova
Lifer
- Mar 25, 2001
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You have to begin with the fact you are too fundamentally dishonest to be able to recognize them. If you weren't blind you wouldn't ask.
This has already been covered repeatedly. His claims of not knowing he was using stolen material during his Bush years are ludicrous and unbelievable. His claims to his drinking habits have been repeatedly called out as lies by people who knew him at the time, etc. etc.
He’s lying and he’s not even trying to hide it very hard. The irony of course is that he went after Bill Clinton for perjury. Maybe we should return the favor.
- Oct 9, 1999
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Allow me to help you with that.
1.) "Judge Kavanaugh repeatedly testified that three people had exonerated him of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her during a gathering of teenagers outside Washington in the summer of 1982. “Dr. Ford’s allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers,” he said on Thursday, punctuating his statement with an extra “refuted.”
This is misleading.
While it is true that the three people did not corroborate Dr. Blasey’s account, they did not “refute” it either. [...] All three said they did not recall the gathering . . ."
2.) "Judge Kavanaugh portrayed himself in his testimony as enjoying a beer or two as a high school and college student, but not as someone who often drank to excess during those years. “I drank beer with my friends,” he said. “Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out,” he said.
This is disputed.
His statements are at odds with how some of his classmates remembered him. In interviews before his testimony, nearly a dozen college classmates of Judge Kavanaugh’s said they recalled him indulging in heavy drinking, some saying it went beyond normal consumption. (To be sure, a smaller number of classmates said his drinking was unexceptional.)
Reached after the hearing, Lynne Brookes, an undergraduate classmate of Judge Kavanaugh’s at Yale University, said she believed he had “grossly misrepresented and mischaracterized his drinking.”
“He frequently drank to excess,” she said. “I know because I frequently drank to excess with him.”
Ms. Brookes was roommates with Deborah Ramirez, who told The New Yorker that Judge Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a drinking game while they were students.
3.) A Display of Affection
A substantial portion of Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony was devoted to discussing his 1983 senior yearbook. In one entry, he described himself as a “Renate Alumnius,” referring to Renate Schroeder, now Renate Dolphin, who attended a nearby Catholic school. A number of his football teammates had similar entries. Judge Kavanagh said: “That yearbook reference was clumsily intended to show affection, and that she was one of us. But in this circus, the media’s interpreted the term is related to sex. It was not related to sex.”
This is disputed.
Four of Judge Kavanaugh’s former schoolmates, including Sean Hagan, said the notion that the phrase was meant affectionately did not ring true. They said that Judge Kavanaugh and his friends often made disrespectful sexual comments about Ms. Dolphin, and that the understanding at the time was that the many yearbook references to her were boasts about sexual conquests.
4.) Yearbook Lingo
Judge Kavanaugh’s yearbook page included the entries “Judge — Have You Boofed Yet?” and “Devil’s Triangle.” On Thursday, he said that “boofed” meant “flatulence” and that “Devil’s Triangle” was a drinking game in which three glasses were arranged in a triangle.
This is disputed.
“Boofed” in the 1980s was a term that often referred to anal sex, and that is how Judge Kavanaugh’s classmates said they interpreted his comment. They said they had never heard it used to refer to flatulence.
5.) His Social Circle
Asked about the intersection of his and Ms. Blasey’s friend groups, Judge Kavanaugh said: “When my friends and I spent time together at parties on weekends, it was usually with friends from nearby Catholic all-girls high schools — Stone Ridge, Holy Child, Visitation, Immaculata, Holy Cross. Dr. Blasey did not attend one of those schools. She attended an independent private school named Holton-Arms, and she was a year behind me.”
This is disputed.
Judge Kavanaugh’s implication is that students at Holton-Arms, an all-girls school, didn’t mingle much those who attended Georgetown Prep. Two of Judge Kavanaugh’s former schoolmates said on Friday that this was not true and that Holton-Arms students were routinely present at parties with Georgetown Prep boys.
“Holton-Arms was definitely part of our social scene,” Mr. Barbot said. Another Georgetown Prep alumnus who was in Judge Kavanaugh’s class said, “Holton was as much a sister school as the others.”
Similarly, they said that they had never heard of a drinking game called Devil’s Triangle, but that the phrase was regularly used to describe sex between two men and a woman. “The explanation of Devil’s Triangle does not hold water for me,” said William Fishburne, who managed the football team during Judge Kavanaugh’s senior year.
“Our senior yearbook pages were a place to have a little bit of fun with commemorating inside jokes,” said Bill Barbot, who overlapped with Judge Kavanaugh at Georgetown Prep, an all-boys Catholic school. “However, the spin that Brett was putting on it was a complete overstatement of the innocence with which they were intended.”
6.) Spying on Democrats
During his confirmation hearings earlier this month, Judge Kavanaugh said that when he worked in the White House of George W. Bush, he was unaware that a Republican staffer had stolen documents about judicial nominations from the computer servers of Democratic lawmakers. He maintained that receiving the documents did “not raise red flags” because “information sharing was common.”
This is disputed.
Documents released by the National Archives show that Manuel Miranda, the Republican aide, had sent Judge Kavanaugh several of the stolen files between 2002 and 2003. One email chain released by the Archives describes wanting to meet at Mr. Miranda’s house so that Judge Kavanaugh, who was a White House lawyer working on judicial confirmations, could receive “useful info” about two Democratic senators.
7.) Contested Judicial Nominees
In 2006, Judge Kavanaugh told senators that when he was in the White House Counsel’s Office, he did not work on a controversial appeals court nomination and played only a small role in another. The nomination of Judge William H. Pryor Jr. was “not one that I worked on personally,” he said. He also said that Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. was “not one of the judicial nominees that I was primarily handling.”
This requires context.
Emails released after Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court showed that during his White House tenure, he was invited to participate in a conference call on Judge Pryor’s confirmation. The email went to a group called the “Pryor Working Group.” The emails also show that he worked on the Pickering nomination, and was called by one colleague “much more involved in the Pickering fight.”
It is clear that Judge Kavanaugh — in 2006 and again this year — sought to downplay his role. Democrats believe that he actively misled the Judiciary Committee, hoping that the true extent of his involvement would not be revealed.
8.) Abortion Rights
Judge Kavanaugh has sought to assure some senators — and the abortion rights groups that support them — by calling Roe v. Wade a matter of settled law. At a hearing on Sept. 6, he said the case was “an important precedent” and “has been reaffirmed many times.”
Last year, he cited Roe v. Wade as an example of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s “massive and enduring impact on American law.” Chief Justice Rehnquist had dissented in the case.
In a March 2003 email, Judge Kavanaugh also appeared to question whether the abortion rights case was indeed “settled law.” In congressional testimony, he defended that email as being concerned with accuracy, and he is correct that some legal scholars do not view the case as settled law.
9.) Executive Privilege
At his initial confirmation hearing in September, Judge Kavanaugh told Ms. Feinstein that he believed a 1974 ruling, United States v. Nixon, was “one of the four greatest moments in Supreme Court history.” In it, the court ruled that the president could not invoke executive privilege to block a subpoena from the Watergate special prosecutor to turn over audiotapes of White House conversations.
Democrats have pointed to remarks Judge Kavanaugh made about the case to suggest he would shield President Trump from a similar subpoena.
This requires context.
Judge Kavanaugh accurately noted that he had praised the decision. He referred to it in a 2016 law review article, stating that the “greatest moments in American judicial history have been when judges stood up to the other branches, were not cowed, and enforced the law.” He also heralded it as “one of the two most significant cases in which the Judiciary stood up to the president” in a 2014 law review article.
But the judge has also questioned the Nixon ruling. In a 1999 round-table discussion, he drew a direct link between court rulings during the investigation of President Bill Clinton and the Supreme Court decision against Richard Nixon. He posed the possibility that the Nixon case “was wrongly decided — heresy though it is to say so.” He also said, “Maybe the tension of the time led to an erroneous decision.”
And he even raised the possibility that it should be overturned. “I’m curious to know what people who are upset by the recent privilege decisions think about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Nixon,” Judge Kavanaugh said during the discussion. “Should United States v. Nixon be overruled on the ground that the case was a nonjusticiable intra-branch dispute? Maybe so.”
^^^ Phew! All this presents Judge Kavanaugh as one slippery mofo . . . a man who will effortlessly bend the truth whenever it serves his aims.
He demonstrably lacks the qualities of personal probity and the judicial temperament crucial to being suited to this LIFETIME appointment to the highest court in our Republic.
Awwwww, this ethically challenged, over-entitled little prep predator seems a bit put out that he's being held to account, doesn't he?
There aren't any but if you scream it loud enough, for long enough, then it must be true. Same with attempted rape accusations evidently. Accused = guilty according to the left.
The above NYT article is a fucking joke, nothing more than jizz that the TDS suffering fucktards love so much. Where's the statements from the people who support Judge Kavanaugh? I particularly like the omission of Mark Judges very specific statements about the night in question and the complete mischaracterization of what he has said.
Good job.
UglyCasanova
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Ok I read through that and seems like a very weak case to say "liar". The one about spying vs Democrats seems the most serious if he was aware and using stolen documents. That in and of itself if true should disqualify him. And I’m not supportive of his stance on abortion or the notion that he’d shield Trump either. But explaining what boofed means or how many beers he drank seems irrelevant to becoming a Supreme Court nominee, and if we’re playing gotcha with 35 year old memories (which we absolutely are) it’s to be expected.
You can't be this retarded. He didn't even need to lie about the words, Renate Alumnus, etc., but he did, and they were some really laughable responses that everyone knows isn't the truth.
There is a longer Washington Post article about the stolen documents that you can find if you search here or google it. It is basically impossible that he didn’t know they were stolen. He’s lying.
We aren’t playing gotcha with 35 year old memories, he’s clearly lying about his past drinking habits because he thinks they will substantiate Ford’s claims.
You don’t just forget that you used to be a raging drinker for years of your life. He’s lying.
What’s up with all the weird homophobic insults? Who cares if people who dislike Trump are gay? You’re acting like a twelve year old in 1995.
This stuff always makes me laugh when I remember you’re over 50 and you still talk like this.
If some old guy said that to me in real life it would be really hard not to laugh in their face.
I didn't think the democrats would be able to derail Kavanaugh's nomination. But is sure looks like they're going to be able to pull it off. On top of that, Ford walks away with a cool half million bucks from gofundme. That's a double win.
This was an impressive bit of theater, far more nuanced than the republicans brute force method used against Garland, though far more brutal on a personal bases, in that it pretty much destroyed Kavanaugh.
I assume the idea is to keep the seat open until 2020 on the assumption that Trump will be voted out? They should have the votes to do that after November.
This was an impressive bit of theater, far more nuanced than the republicans brute force method used against Garland, though far more brutal on a personal bases, in that it pretty much destroyed Kavanaugh.
I assume the idea is to keep the seat open until 2020 on the assumption that Trump will be voted out? They should have the votes to do that after November.
I think we all know you're too much of a bitch to laugh in anyone's face, don't we.
That’s one way to look at it, but I prefer to think that Trump, thinking only of himself as he does effortlessly, picked a guy who is unfit for the position and that fact has given the democrats a real fighting chance based on facts peculiar to this nominee alone from easy confirmation. I see the matter not so much as a matter of democratic political skill or cunning, but a result of an innate conservative incapacity to not only judge character but also to recognize the character proper for a judge.
It wouldn’t be voluntary, I just find old men trying to act tough by making 90s insults extremely funny.
I am certain that I’m not the only person laughing at your attempts to sound tough. We are allll laughing at you.
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