Posted on 10/04/2018 2:07:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday said that he does not believe President Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the high court.
Stevens told a small crowd in Boca Raton, Fla., he once believed Kavanaugh to be qualified, but his performance in Senate Judiciary hearings changed his mind, according to The Palm Beach Post.
“I’ve changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability,” Stevens said, noting Kavanaugh's fiery denial of sexual misconduct accusations in a Senate Judiciary Hearing last week.
“The Senators should pay attention to this,” Stevens added.
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.”
— Lulu Ramadan (@luluramadan) October 4, 2018 Stevens said that criticism over Kavanaugh's temperament for the court following the heated testimony before the panel had “merit.”
Kavanaugh's nomination has been mired by three women accusing him of varying degrees of sexual misconduct from when he was in high school and in college.
Kavanaugh has fiercely denied all the allegations.
Last week, Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the first of the three accusers, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing.
Kavanaugh offered a blistering denial of any wrongdoing and often engaged in tense exchanges with Democrats on the committee. At one point he asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) if she had ever blacked out from drinking after she asked him the same question.
The nominee’s conduct during the hearing caught the attention of many on the left, who cited his temperament as another reason to vote “no” on his confirmation. Klobuchar later said that if she “was in his courtroom and acted like that, he would have thrown me out.”
The FBI returned results of a week-long investigation into the allegations to the Senate on Thursday.
Senate Republicans claim that there was no corroborating evidence for any of the claims against Kavanaugh and have vowed to confirm the nominee in a vote over the weekend.
Stevens, a nominee of former President Ford, retired in 2010. He was replaced by President Obama nominee Elena Kagan.
Stevens is a RINO scumbag,
The man is a notorious ass-eater
IMO, Stevens should stuff it in whatever orifice he can.
I agree with his honor.
In fact, I think all of the democrat Senators from Trump states should vote no!
>:D
Sorry POS, you don’t get to vote.
Get your blanket and leave the real world alone.
Too bad for him he is not a Senator.....
Is Boca Raton where his nursing home is located? Make sure he reminds Maria to apply that ointment to his rash.
I KNOW he didn't vote for Trump!
Stevens should never again serve on a bench.
Uh...if he had been subjected to the same Democrat organized barrage of screaming “protestors” and character assassination he would spoken sharply at his own hearing.
Or else he isn’t much of a man.
I don’t care. New rules.
We win. You lose
New new NEW talking point.
Okay, maybe he didn’t rape anybody. But his passionate response in the hearing proves he lacks JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT!
Probably trying to scare future nominees away from defending themselves against ludicrous attacks.
It’s hilarious that Stevens was replaced by dim bulb Kagan and he is fine with that.
Former Justice John Paul Stevens.
Born: April 20, 1920 (98 years old)
Your opinion dear judge ... and a ticket ... gets you a ride on the Metro.
I never thought Stevens should have been confirmed.
go back to sleep douche nozzle.
“I’ve changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability,” Stevens said, noting Kavanaugh’s fiery denial of sexual misconduct accusations in a Senate Judiciary Hearing last week.”
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Yeah, how dare he deny the disgusting slime he was accused of, there’s no reason to be pissed about that!!! Harumphhh!!!
Did he feel the same way when Justice Thomas was very outspoken in reacting to the high-tech lynching attempted by the RATs?
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