[Jumper]

Our National News analysis has failed to state the obvious reason for democrats demanding any delay for any reason is that they assume he will be confirmed, or that Trump will get confirmed another judge, but keeping him out of the SCOTUS by Monday keeps him from making landmark decisions that hurt the DNC agenda.

[Ann Archy]

HE BETTER BE CONFIRMED ASAP!!!!!!!!! OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!!!!

[Alberta's Child]

That has been debunked here so many times it's gotten tiresome.

Kavanaugh can issue a ruling on any case as long as he hears the oral arguments.

The October Supreme Court calendar is filled with a bunch of cases that don't have landmark implications. And even if they did, the Court can always go back if necessary and schedule a second round of oral arguments just to make sure they don't have a landmark case end in a 4-4 vote.

[JBW1949]

if he’s confirmed later, he will still be able to take the seat...he just can’t rule on anything that comes up BEFORE he sits...

[11th_VA]

I’m pretty sure he will be confirmed Saturday - then we ‘move on’

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Collins & Murkowski. If they vote no, this will hound them to the day they die.

Maybe we can get 1 or 2 Dems too.

[Meet the New Boss]

Have Roberts appoint him as temporary clerk starting Monday so he can attend all the arguments and conferences until he is formally sworn in.

[GreenHornet]

After this charade, hopefully many of the Republicans have finally realized what President Trump has known all along: The Democrats are NOT “our friends across the aisle.”

[Sasparilla]

Lindsey Graham swung an unexpected wrecking ball into the nauseating Democrats’ belly.

[Intolerant in NJ]

I think Flake is a yes.....

[Lurking Libertarian]

keeping him out of the SCOTUS by Monday keeps him from making landmark decisions that hurt the DNC agenda.

Assuming he's confirmed later, he will still sit on the Court and will only be disqualified from voting on cases that were argued before his confirmation. I don't think there are any landmark cases scheduled to be argued in the first few weeks of the Court's term.

[Dogbert41]

The Democrats(Media/talk shows/papers/Internet) have all Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, to drag out 20 more hookers and blow to claim Kavanaugh is a serial rapist, drunk, and drug abuser. May even find a dead body in his car’s trunk.

[rollo tomasi]

Gorsuch caught the tail end of the 2017 session. Once you are confirmed you jump right in (Before any oral arguments are presented for a particular case though).

[Robert DeLong]

Traditionally, justices don’t vote in cases unless they were present at oral argument. (Justice Gorsuch, for example, recused himself from all cases that had been heard before he was confirmed in April 2017.)

But that rule appears to be an unwritten one, and it’s been breached before, albeit in different circumstances — when Chief Justice William Rehnquist had a tracheotomy in 2004, he participated in cases by working off the transcripts and notes of oral arguments he missed. If future Justice Kavanaugh (or whoever) really wanted to cast a vote in a case heard in October, and the other justices really wanted his input, it would probably work out.

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[TXnMA]

The "Meme" from the Thomas confirmation was

"High Tech Lynching..."

Here's my candidate for the Kavanaugh meme:

...fresh off video -- and from Justice Kavanaugh's mouth...

TXnMA
 

P.S. Freepers saw it first... '-)

[rwoodward]

Manchin is tied in the polls. If he wants a shot at winning then he will vote yes.

[Lazamataz]

No, he will join immediately.