Posted on 08/24/2018 2:52:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
All ten of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Friday asking him to postpone the September 4th confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
"Given the possibility of criminal wrongdoing by the President, doubts that Judge Kavanaugh believes a president can even be investigated, and the unprecedented lack of transparency regarding this nominee’s record, we should not move forward with hearings on September 4th," they wrote.
"The President’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and stated, under oath, that the President directed him to commit a federal crime by violating campaign finance law,” they emphasized. “This was done in the run-up to the election, with the intent of influencing the outcome.”
Cohen told the court Tuesday that he violated campaign finance laws in the arrangement of payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, saying he’d violated federal law "in coordination with and at the direction of a federal candidate for office," in a reference to President Trump.
The letter also says there are transparency concerns like that “97 percent of Kavanaugh’s White House record is being withheld from the public and more than 94 percent is being withheld from the Senate.”
Sen. Grassley pushed back Friday on the Democrats’ complaints over the “lack of transparency” in relation to Kavanaugh’s record.
“Public material from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s executive branch legal service now exceeds that of any previous Supreme Court nominee,” he pointed out in a statement. “The Senate Judiciary Committee today released more than 25,400 pages from Judge Kavanaugh’s service as a White House lawyer, bringing the total volume of public executive branch materials to more than 200,000 pages. The previous high water mark for such material was roughly 180,000 pages released during the committee’s consideration of Justice Neil Gorsuch.
On the Senate floor earlier this week, Grassley made it clear that he did not plan to delay Kavanaugh’s hearing over the Cohen plea deal.
"I’m not going to delay Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. There’s no precedent for delaying a hearing in these circumstances," he said. "In fact, there’s clear precedent pointing the other way. In 1994, President Clinton nominated Justice Breyer to the Supreme Court. President Clinton was, at the time, under investigation by Independent Counsel Robert Fiske in connection with the Whitewater land deal. Indeed, President Clinton’s own records were under a grand jury subpoena. Yet the Senate confirmed Justice Breyer by a vote of 87-9 during all this."
F’ em.
No.
Next!
agreed
And I unanimously demand that all ten of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee go do something to themselves which is anatomically impossible.
I like Grassley.
With the demise of Barnum & Bailey, there is only only clown show in the country: the Democrat Party. I’m sure that the idiots of the party are lapping this up. Everyone else, not so much.
OK, just get started already then.
No more talk. When do the actual hearing begin?
So sick of the dims bullying us! They bully us voters, they bully Christians, they bully Sarah Sanders, they bully anyone opposed to them. We need to put our foot down on their throats and say no more g.d. bullying crap. I talk to people and they are really fed up.
McConnell's got this. One thing Mitch won't abide is personal dishonor. He says it's going to happen. It's going to happen.
Nope. Elections have consequences ya losers. (to paraphrase the Kenyan.)
No.
L
I recently read that the hearings are scheduled to begin 4 Sept
You're funny.
Bagster
No.
Brake the deal face the wheel.
...let’s get down to brass tacks: I don’t think the Minority Leader actually wants to read the millions of pages that crossed Judge Kavanaugh’s desk in 2004.
He’s said he’d fight this nomination with everything he’s got. And this bloated document request is part of that fight. This is not about anything other than obstruction — to bury us in millions and millions of pages of paper, so we cannot have a confirmation vote on Judge Kavanaugh this year.
Liberal, dark-money outside groups want to drag this confirmation out to the end of time. I won’t let them...
Yeah… Demand and one hand, crap in the other, see which one fills up first.
hey dems, sit on it and spin... SCOTUS will get this new judge and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
If you think it is bad now just wait till the next one Trump appoints...
Life is good.
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