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‘You Can’t Do It Quietly’: Top Democrat Overheard Discussing Kavanaugh Impeachment Plans
Daily Caller ^ | November 7, 2018 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 11/08/2018 4:20:36 PM PST by Morgana

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee was overheard Wednesday discussing Democrats’ plans to investigate and try to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

New York Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler took a series of phone calls while riding the Acela train from New York to Washington, D.C., not knowing that the The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway was also on the train and within earshot.

Nadler is set to take over as judiciary chairman as a result of Democrats flipping the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Nadler claimed in one call that “there’s a real indication that Kavanaugh committed perjury,” claiming the justice misled about when he first heard about the second of several unproven allegations against him.

Nadler claimed Kavanaugh was “asked at a committee hearing under oath when he first heard of the subject, he said, ‘When I’d heard of The Atlantic article.’ But there is an email chain apparently dating from well before that from him about ‘How can we deal with this?'”

Nadler appeared to confuse The Atlantic with The New Yorker, which first reported the second allegation.

The congressman’s claim echoed a misleading NBC News article that left out crucial context about Kavanaugh’s answer — one of several Kavanaugh stories that NBC got wrong.

“That’s not technical, that’s real,” Nadler reportedly said, when his interlocutor objected to his plan.

“The worst-case scenario — or best case depending on your point of view — you prove he committed perjury, about a terrible subject and the Judicial Conference recommends you impeach him. So the president appoints someone just as bad,” Nadler added.

Nadler rejected the caller’s suggestion that Democrats investigate Kavanaugh quietly.

“You can’t do it quietly because word will get out that the FBI or the committee is reaching out to witnesses,” he said.

Nadler also assailed the FBI’s background investigation probing the allegations against Kavanaugh.

“They didn’t even do a half-ass job,” Nadler said. “They didn’t interview 30 witnesses who said, ‘Interview me! I’ve got a lot to say!'” the congressman added.

An extensive investigation by the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee found “no evidence” to support the Kavanaugh accusations.

Nadler’s communications director Daniel Schwarz claimed Hemingway’s story was “an absolutely false and deliberately inaccurate report,” in an emailed statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Schwarz did not return a follow-up inquiry asking him to point to specific quotations or passages in Hemingway’s report that he thought were inaccurate.


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To: Gay State Conservative

The Dems want chaos every day for the next two years. Pure Alinskite burn it down mentality.


21 posted on 11/08/2018 4:59:23 PM PST by lodi90
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To: jersey117

Trump needs to start an investigation of the real Russian collusion: Democrats and Russian intelligence operatives. No knock raids on Perkins Coie, perjury traps, etc. The works. We need to get the ball rolling now to get some results before November 2020. Real crimes were committed. Democrats need to be in jail.


22 posted on 11/08/2018 5:03:46 PM PST by lodi90
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To: GreenHornet
the Democrats will immediately call for Judge Kavanaugh to recuse himself


23 posted on 11/08/2018 5:04:23 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Junk Silver

They are trying to make our votes non-workable... they are trying to make them , the democratic party, the law of the United States... they are making it so THEY choose the President and who and what goes in our country.

I go back a long ways in our country. All of the above has not happened before.. and the day they try this .. the day they think we are few and they can do this to us... there will be trouble in our land!!!

It would be better if they found an island somewhere and did whatever they want... but not in this United States! This land is not their land.. this vote is not their vote.. this law is not their law... and this government is not their government.

obama opened up he gates of hell in his 8 years.. he ran the conservatives down every day.. he is still on tv in his condescending tone.. can’t say a positive word.. hates everyone but himself.. and the media has propped him up ... still does.. And in the same vein.. they are trying to destroy my President.. who has done more in 2 years than obama, clinton and both the bushes, did in all theirs.
BUT Trump is not in their league.. they have determined he is not up to their level.. and I HATE what they have done and are doing.. they are lower than a snake and crawl all the way to their power.. thinking they are king.. not hardly!!!!!

They have decreed they are the only ones to control all of us and the country. That will not happen.. God help our country from the infidels who are way out of their minds!!


24 posted on 11/08/2018 5:15:52 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: A_Former_Democrat

We don’t even need patriots, just a dozen angry Irishmen with shillelaghs.


25 posted on 11/08/2018 5:19:37 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Morgana

This is never going anywhere. The Senate will reject it. He may be impeached but not convicted. Just like Samuel Chase was acquitted by the Senate on March 1, 1805.


26 posted on 11/08/2018 5:26:25 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: heterosupremacist
At this point it would be inadmissible as ‘hearsay’.

Unless she recorded it and we're reading a transcript of the conversation.

27 posted on 11/08/2018 5:48:19 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

Dan Tucker wrote:

*At this point it would be inadmissible as ‘hearsay’.
Unless she recorded it and we’re reading a transcript of the conversation.*

The point I was making is that it would be inadmissible Without A Recording!

Rock on, DT...


28 posted on 11/08/2018 6:06:29 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: Morgana

A Jewish man named Jerry? Too weird, like Heinrich or Adolph.


29 posted on 11/08/2018 7:00:24 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Morgana

...or Benito.


30 posted on 11/08/2018 7:00:42 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: scottinoc

It doesn’t smell like desperation to me.

It stinks like all out aggression.


31 posted on 11/08/2018 7:03:14 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists fascists today plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives soon)
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To: Batman11

Please leave Topo out of this he might have had a hand up his tuchus but he’s not a seditious closet case like Waddler


32 posted on 11/08/2018 7:09:48 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Junk Silver

I have read that Ted Kennedy was only his day’s equivalent of Beto O’Rourke to front for Hart and Cellar. *spelling* ?


33 posted on 11/08/2018 8:54:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Morgana

The Democrats know they have absolutely no legitimate reason to impeach Justice Kavanaugh. In my opinion, the real strategy here is to try to handcuff Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court as much as possible until 2020. Once they launch their investigation, their main talking point will be: ‘Justice Kavanaugh needs to immediately recuse himself from all cases being heard by the Supreme Court. It is highly inappropriate for him to be hearing and ruling on any cases while he himself is under investigation.” Also, they know there is a real possibility that President Trump will have the opportunity to make another Supreme Court nomination (possibly two) before the end of his first term. If that happens, a second talking point will be: “The Senate should not even consider any additional appointments to the Supreme Court while one of the current justices is under investigation.” It’s a totally illogical argument, but that won’t stop the Democrats and their allies in the media from advancing that argument.


34 posted on 11/28/2018 7:46:17 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I’ve heard of “death knells” but never death nails...


35 posted on 11/30/2018 10:52:05 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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