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Grassley panel scraps Kavanaugh hearing, warns committee will vote without deal
The Hill ^ | 09/21/2018 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 09/21/2018 3:57:21 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing a high-stakes hearing set for early next week on the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The committee announced on Friday that the Monday hearing — where both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, had been invited to speak — was being called off.

Instead, Grassley said in a statement Friday that he is giving Ford’s lawyers until 10 p.m. on Friday to respond to the GOP request for her to testify on Wednesday. If they do not, or if Ford declines to testify, Grassley said the Judiciary Committee will vote Monday on Kavanaugh's nomination.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; brettkavanaugh; christineblaseyford; chuckgrassley; committee; ford; grassley; hearing; judiciary; judiciarycommittee; kavanaugh; panel; scotus; senate; supremecourt; vote
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To: SpeedyInTexas
My prediction? The Democrats are going to drag out a circuit court judge in that area and he'll issue a ruling stating that local police or sheriff's deputies are going to open an investigation into this... You heard it here first
61 posted on 09/21/2018 4:33:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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To: Covenantor

This says 5 pm., which is now past.


62 posted on 09/21/2018 4:33:09 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: mrs9x
She'll agree to the Wed. hearing, but by Monday will have some other excuse lined up as to why she can't attend.
63 posted on 09/21/2018 4:34:33 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: Covenantor
Interesting, thanks for the link.

Outside counsel may not dictate the terms under which Committee business will be conducted.

Seems to me very straight forward. Ford's gang and hucksters are trying to violate Roberts Rules of Order (or whatever equivalent drives the Senate Judiciary Committee).

64 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:05 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: TomGuy

Consider what McConnell said this morning. He was quite confident that Judge Kavanaugh would sit on the Supreme Court. That wasn’t typical political bluster. He knows something. Several things more likely. More likely, McConnell and the Democrats know that her story can’t hold water and therefore the Democrats will not let her testify under oath. He also knows that he has the votes, probably because the four wobbly Senators have been briefed and have agreed that they will vote for Kavanaugh.

None of this stuff that has occurred today was by accident.


65 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:20 PM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: Covenantor
So, since the deadline is now past, here the agenda for Monday includes votes for 10 judges:
66 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:53 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Godebert

She won’t testify HOWEVER she WILL be on the weekend talk shows BET ON IT!!!


67 posted on 09/21/2018 4:36:09 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Ceebass

as if this isn’t also a campaign issue for R’s - this disgusting display by Dems has a lot of fire burning in a lot of R bellies.


68 posted on 09/21/2018 4:36:36 PM PDT by avital2
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You heard it here first

How are they going to get around the Statute of Limitations?

69 posted on 09/21/2018 4:37:05 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Democrats are National Socialists)
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To: keat
She surfs, in the Pacific Ocean, yet she is scared to fly.

I wonder if anyone is checking to see if she has flown in the past. It's hard for me to believe in this day that she hasn't considering her profession.

70 posted on 09/21/2018 4:37:21 PM PDT by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Not quite sure I understand the details, but the Senate vote had to occur by a certain date in order for Kavanaugh to hear the next round of cases scheduled for the next Supreme Court session.


71 posted on 09/21/2018 4:37:47 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: SmokingJoe
‘Another weak cave. Grassley has in effect given in to her demands to cancel the hearings on Monday and moved it to Wednesday which is only a day short of the Thursday she asked for. How pathetic is that.
Senator Grassley, where is your spine? ‘

That is my take also.
Based on the gutless record of the Republican leadership.
TWB

72 posted on 09/21/2018 4:38:30 PM PDT by TWhiteBear (H)
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To: Architect of Avalon
Consider the time that she needs to invest, like writing the lies down, and having her leftist activist lawyers incorporate Democratic talking points into the lies.

There is nothing even remotely democratic in what these Democrats are doing and have done for the last 10 years or so. Given the current state of the Democrat party, I respectfully submit that the term "Democratic" with a capital D is a total misnomer and should be avoided.

73 posted on 09/21/2018 4:39:30 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: DouglasKC

Yep. That sounds like the next trick.


74 posted on 09/21/2018 4:39:44 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: centurion316
You are correct, but I’m keeping an eye on you nonetheless.

A regular eye, or The Eye Of Scrutiny?    thinking face ROFL face

75 posted on 09/21/2018 4:39:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My prediction? The Democrats are going to drag out a circuit court judge in that area and he'll issue a ruling stating that local police or sheriff's deputies are going to open an investigation into this... You heard it here first

That thought occurred to me after hearing on Fox this morning that "strangely, there isn't a statute of limitations on this in Maryland".

If so, I expect a Freak State DA to get involved in this.

76 posted on 09/21/2018 4:40:16 PM PDT by damper99
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To: C210N
The last piece was the schedule for Monday..?

September 21, 2018

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING

An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary for Monday, September 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

By order of the Chairman

. AGENDA

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

Monday, September 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

I. Nominees

Brett M. Kavanaugh, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States....(continues)

77 posted on 09/21/2018 4:40:25 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: keat

Very good point.


78 posted on 09/21/2018 4:40:37 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Reno89519

Thanks...you got it out before my stumbling with html code....


79 posted on 09/21/2018 4:41:33 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Alberta's Child

This clown fest is over. That’s too bad, too — because I was just starting to enjoy it.

Yes, I believe you are correct. I believe that she thought just the accusation would be enough for Justice Kavanaugh to withdraw. And when it didn’t happen Blase Ford started to wet herself as her legal minds told her the consequence of perury was to steep a price to pay.

So, Senator Finestein will pay the piper. Christine can go back to Palo Alto a heroine for having dared to bring him down.


80 posted on 09/21/2018 4:42:47 PM PDT by CARTOUCHE (The Deep State has a tap root.)
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