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As I write this, the “I really, really wanna testify, but…” goalpost has moved west right past my house and out over the Pacific Ocean. You get the distinct impression that Christine Ford’s handlers are making it up as they go along – “She can’t testify on Monday because, I dunno, she’s afraid of airplanes. Yeah, that’s a thing now.” The GOP is, as usual, afraid to be seen as insufficiently submissive. We have Chuck Grassley announcing, by tweets that sound like they were composed by a twelve-year-old texting her girlfriends after breaking into mom’s cooking sherry, that he’s ready to...

We've seen this "comic routine" so many times, we know what to expect all next week,even micro seconds leading up to the confirmation vote: a.) new allegations, affidavits & testimonialsb.) forecasts of gloom & doom by so-called expertsc.) slanderous attacks aimed at the political right sided.) blatant lies & misinformation from so-called respected sourcese.) endless misleading pollsf.) ridiculous conjecture & speculationg.) secret photos, recordings and internet videoh.) paid protestors all over the countryi.) Barack, Bill, Hillary, Rev Al & Jesse, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer live press conferencesj.) Hollywood Stars rallying to support the accusersk.) boycotts by corporations that do business...

Christine Blasey Ford has named several people who would be witnesses to, or have knowledge of, what she says happened to her. Patrick Smyth denies it. Mark Judge denies it. Brett Kavanaugh denies it. People have claimed these are all men who went to school together, so they must be protecting themselves. What about any female witnesses? Christine Blasey Ford said there was one. Her name is Leland Keyser. She was Ford's classmate. She was not an eye witness, but Ford said she had knowledge of the party and assault. I have obtained Keyser's attorney's letter to the Senate Judiciary...

Strategery: Late Friday Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley took to Twitter to announce he’d granted Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, another delay after she said, through her lawyer, she would not be ready to testify before his committee by early next week. The delay was hugely disappointing to supporters of Judge Kavanaugh because they a) don’t buy Ford’s 36-year-old allegations given the suspicion and controversies surrounding them; and b) believe that he will make a fine Supreme Court justice for decades to come. It’s not clear why Grassley, R-Iowa, caved again. It’s...

Confirmation: As the ‘controversy’ over Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually abusing her in high school, continues to swirl, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., an ally of the president, fired off a late-night tweet that was no doubt meant to calm conservative nerves. His tweet came as POTUS Donald Trump held a massive rally in Las Vegas for Sen. Dean Heller, who is up for reelection, where people waited for hours in line to get inside. Many didn’t. “Great job tonight by President @realDonaldTrump in Las Vegas laying out how strong America has become...

What about 'Conditional Confirmation' for Judge Kavanaugh? So far, we have an accusation against Kavanaugh as presented by the news media and NOT the accuser herself without any details such as WHEN or even WHERE the incident occurred. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE ACCUSER NOT REMEMBER WHERE THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED!!!.. IMPOSSIBLE!!! It is OBVIOUS the DemonRats are GAMING this bogus accusation aimed at DELAYING, RESISTING, STALLING, OBSTRUCTING, AND RUNNING-OUT-THE-CLOCK, ETC.. WHERE'S THE UNREDACTED LETTER, DIANE?? HMMMM??? How about Kavanaugh's a YES vote on Kavanaugh's 'CONDITIONAL CONFIRMATION' pending an investigation to occur AFTER he is seated? There is NO WAY we...

It should be OBVIOUS to anyone that this entire charade is a TACTIC by the DemonRats to DELAY the confirmation vote of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court until AFTER the midterm election where the DemonRats hope to gain the majority in the House and possibly Senate. Dr. Ford's calling for the FBI to investigate is entirely inappropriate. Such an investigation is a matter for the congnizant police dept NOT the FBI. It is Congress' decision to make, NOT FORD'S and she is entirely out of line for making such a request. WHY DIDN'T FORD OR FORD'S ATTORNEY ASK FOR SUCH...

The hidden hand has given the orders and moves on noun—an unknown force or influence believed to be the cause of certain, often unfortunate, events—Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter: The Scarlet Letter explores guilt and revenge Judge Brett Kavanugh is, by all accounts, a terrific jurist and a decent gentleman who believes, who trusts, in our Constitution and carries a copy with him.

Much has been made of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s invitation to testify before an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee next week -- but it’s not yet set in stone she will actually show. Fox News is told that the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday night reached out to Ford’s lawyers to invite her to next Monday’s open hearing to discuss her allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but she has not responded yet.

During Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing earlier this month, Senate Democrats seemed content just scoring points with their base by quizzing the Supreme Court nominee about President Trump, abortion, dark money, racial issues and the like. Now, in the wake of Christine Ford's sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh, Democrats appear to be shifting to a new strategy aimed at delaying the final confirmation vote until after the November 6 election and actually defeating the nominee. Playing to the base while implicitly acknowledging that Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation was unlikely to be slowed or stopped was a safe strategy. The same cannot...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California announced plans Sunday to formally oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, saying justices “should not be an extension of the Republican Party.” Ms. Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she was troubled by how the nominee had been vetted, citing a lack of documents on Judge Kavanaugh’s career with the Bush administration. But, she wrote in the L.A. Times, her decision was determined by the “very real-world implications” of placing him on the court. “We already knew that Judge Kavanaugh held highly ideological views on the 2nd Amendment,...

A source who said they were briefed on the contents of the letter said it described an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman that took place when both were 17 years old and at a party. According to the source, Kavanaugh and a male friend had locked her in a room against her will, making her feel threatened, but she was able to get out of the room. The Guardian has not verified the apparent claims in the letter. It is not yet clear who wrote it.

Democrats on Thursday alerted the FBI to decades-old sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to reports and a person familiar with the matter. * * * Two officials briefed on the letter’s contents told The New York Times the allegations relate to possible sexual misconduct between Kavanaugh and an unidentified woman when they were both in high school.(My emphasis.)

President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in June 1993. She was confirmed two months later by a vote of 96 to 3, and not a single senator asked her about her ten years litigating cases for the ACLU, she said in an appearance on Thursday. “I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back to the way it — the way it was,” Ginsburg told a gathering at the George Washington University Law School. […] “The way it was, was right. The way it is, is wrong,” she said, drawing applause...

Democrats are convinced that smoking guns and legal landmines are buried in millions of pages of documents from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s past. But 500,000 pages into their search, they have yet to identify them. As Judge Kavanaugh prepares for his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, his judicial record captured in more than 300 opinions on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is getting little attention. Instead, the battle has been over access to more than 3 million pages of documents from his time in the Bush White House. “The other side has apparently found very...

Conservative legal superstars threw their support behind Supreme Court nominee Judge Kavanaugh Monday, urging lawmakers to back his confirmation to the high court. The stars include former Solicitor General Paul Clement, former appeals court nominee Miguel Estrada and prominent lawyer Michael Carvin...

A liberal activist in Maine is vowing to spend $100,000 to defeat Sen. Susan Collins if she votes to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court pick. Another progressive group, meanwhile, has brought Alaska residents to Washington to meet with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, urging her to be the vote that sinks Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The two Republican senators are considered the key to Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Each met separately with the judge this week, though both hesitated to throw their support behind him, saying they’re awaiting his confirmation hearing early next month.

Democrats on the SenateJudiciary Committee officially requested a delay Friday in the planned confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, saying there are too many questions to move forward with the Sept. 4 planned start. All 10 Democrats signed a letter demanding the delay. They listed a lack of documents, and President Trump’s mounting legal entanglements as matters that must be sorted out before Judge Kavanaugh faces questions in public for the first time since his nomination to the Supreme Court. They also said Mr. Trump’s personnel judgment is in question after the troubles faced by a number of his original...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed the first of two South Carolina judges picked for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, giving federal Judge Marvin Quattlebaum of Greenville a lifetime appointment in the key appellate post. The Senate is also expected later this week to confirm Julius “Jay” Richardson, a deputy criminal chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbia, to another open post on the same appeals court. Quattlebaum has swiftly risen the judicial ranks during the Trump administration. He earned a spot on the U.S. District Court of South Carolina just a few months ago. That confirmation came...

<p>WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted narrowly on Tuesday to confirm Britt Grant to Atlanta’s 11th U.S. Circuit, greenlighting the Georgia Supreme Court justice for a lifetime position on the powerful federal appeals court that frequently takes on hotly contested issues such as gun rights and the death penalty.</p>