Seared on the outside. Tender and pink on the inside.
Posted on 10/08/2018 11:48:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
The narrow confirmation of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh over the weekend marked a major political victory for President Trump – and the beginning of a new battle for Democrats, who are now shifting their message to threaten possible impeachment against the newest high court justice and question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself.
After a grueling confirmation fight that included graphic sexual misconduct allegations which the nominee denied, Kavanaugh was confirmed Saturday on 50-48 vote. His ceremonial swearing-in will be held Monday evening.
But as he joins the court, replacing retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, prominent Democrats signal the fight over his seat and the court itself will extend well beyond next month's midterms.
"Now, they want to impeach him. ... It's an insult to the American public," Trump said Monday, still fuming over the confirmation process and predicting Republican candidates would only benefit from the controversy in the midterms.
Democrats, though, maintain the fight is energizing their core. "We will not stop marching, we will not stop fighting," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.
Over the weekend, former Attorney General Eric Holder said the court’s legitimacy should be brought into question with the addition of Kavanaugh.
“With the confirmation of Kavanaugh and the process which led to it, (and the treatment of Merrick Garland), the legitimacy of the Supreme Court can justifiably be questioned. The Court must now prove—through its work—that it is worthy of the nation’s trust,” Holder tweeted, referring to former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee whose confirmation process was blocked by Republicans in 2016.
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I hear you loud and clear. There are a whole lot of citizens thinking the same things.
Are public hangings out? Fingers crossed...
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Soros.
Possibly. We did get him through, so despite my previous comments, it did turn out decently.
Yes, they caused the vote to be delayed until it was his daughter’s wedding day, but technically, he didn’t change his vote.
As others pointed out to me, he could have flown in too.
We agree on all this, I’m sure.
To put it another way, the media puts the big microphone in front of real crazies and non-crazy people going for publicity with the media itself going for financial gain.
It’s a shame they don’t bring them back. :^)
It’s really too bad 90% of the media is the enemy.
Does anyone think the Democrats would go this rabid insane over alleged sexual abuse, let alone abuse that has no corroboration what so ever? Of course not! They are huge enablers of REAL scum-of-them-earth sex abusers. Their all out war on Justice Kavanaugh is All About ABORTION and their lose of a swing vote.
Well, that’s two of us. IT’S A START!
You mean in your Hypnocampus.
The only thing the Democrats were successful in doing is giving them the talking point that Kavanaugh had the lowest confirmation vote in history for a sitting Supreme Court Justice, adjusted for Senate size.
-PJ
Late in life, Dwight Eisenhower said that the two biggest regrets of his presidency were the SCOTUS nominations of Earl Warren and William Douglas, in that order.
Yeah that could be true. We usually vote for their idiots regardless. They can’t reciprocate.
You know, they don’t control the White House, the Senate, or the Judicial branch. They have only 16 of 50 governors, and the Republicans control 67 of 99 state bodies (legislatures / senates).
Trump is busy changing the make-up of the judiciary as well.
Quite a record there Democrats.
So what do they do? They quadruple down.
A little nosing around will be necessary.
Seared on the outside. Tender and pink on the inside.
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