Brett Kavanaugh will be Trump’s SCOTUS nominee

[eleganz]

Some how Trump can pants Jeb Bush and humiliate him on TV and then proceed to put all of his brothers old gang together again, and this was Trumps idea?

Don't know what you mean, I think the topic is sliding.

[nikcers]

Don't know what you mean, I think the topic is sliding.

Threads topic held a position in the Whitehouse where his job was to go wherever George W Bush went and decide what memos he sees and when he sees them and if other senior officials should comment on the memos. This isn't even the first time Trump has hired people from Bush's administration, I don't see how that is off topic.

[devil21]

Is Grassley's excuse of "not in executive session" in compliance with confirmation hearing rules? That was always his excuse for avoiding motions to adjourn. Perhaps the correct motion should have been a motion to recess? I'd think Senators would know the difference. False opposition? Theater? Can't deny that many of the Senators on the committee are fellow YALE graduates...

One Senator commented how interesting it is that Kavanaugh repeatedly found himself at the center of so many course changing issues and cases. I want to see the video of whoever called out SCOTUS for being controlled by higher powers.

Can someone please ask him if he believes that his Jesuit oath (posted on page 3 of this thread) supersedes his oath of office? (I'll hold my breath, seeing how there's so many Yale grads on the committee )

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They're going to suck all of the air out of the room with the Facebook/social media hearings today so the Kavanaugh questioning gets as little air time and coverage as possible. But but Sandberg is testifying!!

[timosman]

Why was Rod Rosenstein there?

[timosman]

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[bunklocoempire]

From the Mises BitChute video channel:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/lD7qzH4ob3Y/
Video 4:00 minutes Judge Andrew Napolitano: Brett Kavanaugh and the Patriot Act
Presented at Mises University in Auburn, Alabama, on 16 July 2018.

[Zippyjuan]

The hearings are just a formality. If all the Republicans vote party line it won't matter what any Democrats do- he will get approved since he only needs 50% (after they changed it from two thirds). He would have so seriously screw up to not get it.

[Swordsmyth]

Progressive groups are becoming increasingly frustrated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), saying he needs to do more to make sure every single Democratic senator votes against Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Thirteen progressive groups sent Schumer a letter Wednesday morning, telling him anything less than a united caucus vote against Kavanaugh will be “a massive failure of your leadership.”
“Your job as Senate Democratic leader is to lead your caucus in complete opposition to Trump’s attempted Supreme Court takeover and to defend everyone threatened by a Trump Supreme Court,” they wrote. “But unbelievably, nearly two dozen Democrats have still not come out against Kavanaugh, and just last week, you helped Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fast track 15 Trump judicial nominees. That is not the leadership we need.”


The signatories include Credo, Democracy for America, Indivisible and UltraViolet, and many of the groups have been critical of the minority leader in the past as well. Schumer’s office declined to comment.
A group of activists also occupied Schumer’s Capitol Hill office Tuesday evening.
Part of the progressive frustration with Schumer is over a deal he made with Sen. McConnell (R-Ky.) last week, when he agreed to expedite confirmation of 15 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees to lifetime federal court seats. The deal allowed Democratic senators to go home sooner for the Labor Day recess to spend more time campaigning.
Arguably, all those nominees could have made it through anyway, since Republicans have a majority in the Senate. But Democrats could certainly have delayed their confirmations and caused headaches for Trump and McConnell if they had fought back. And that fighting spirit is what many progressive activists want to see more of.

“Your strategy to sacrifice the Supreme Court in order to hold Democratic Senate seats is not only strategically and morally wrong, it will fail,” the progressive groups wrote in their letter Wednesday. “It is wrong to assume that a no vote on Kavanaugh puts red-state Democrats in electoral peril or somehow protects them from Republican attacks.”

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/progressi...120010581.html

[Swordsmyth]

Kavanaugh ‘Protesters’ Caught Getting Paid Hard CASH

[Swordsmyth]

Kavanaugh ‘Protesters’ Caught Getting Paid Hard CASH

It has now emerged that the man seen paying off the woman works for a left-wing activist organization funded by billionaire globalist George Soros.

“The man handing money to the Kavanaugh hearing protester is Vinay Krishnan. Consultant/organizer at Center for Popular Democracy,” tweeted Nick Monroe.

The man handing money to the Kavanaugh hearing protester is Vinay Krishnan. Consultant/organizer at Center for Popular Democracy.
> An Organization ON THE RECORD as have received funding from George Soros. https://t.co/ZyaN5UbucD pic.twitter.com/tMmwhc72QB
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) September 6, 2018

Krishnan’s bio lists him as a “social justice attorney”. The Center for Popular Democracy “receives the bulk of its funding from George Soros” and back in May last year announced that they were setting up an “$80 million anti-Trump network that will span 32 states and have 48 local partners.”

After he was identified, Krishnan locked down his Twitter profile.

While the media obsesses about non-existent Russian interference in the American political system, this represents solid proof of a foreign actor meddling in America’s political system by bankrolling fake astroturf protests designed to sow discord and create division.

Will the media cover this massive story?

More at: https://www.infowars.com/man-caught-...-organization/

[devil21]

Bail money? I know it's easy to blame the Soros for everything but of course the protestors are organized and they know they'll be arrested. It's not surprising to see organizers giving them bail money prior to a guaranteed arrest.

[timosman]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-groups-811254

09/07/2018

Three prominent liberal groups pushing to defeat Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination on Friday urged Democrats to seek a formal perjury investigation of him based on his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

Demand Justice, MoveOn, and NARAL Pro-Choice America outlined their case in a letter sent as Kavanaugh’s marathon four-day hearing came to a close, with the Republican Senate still expected to confirm him by month’s end.

The trio of advocacy groups claim that five topics Kavanaugh addressed with Judiciary panel senators this week reveal inconsistencies with statements he made during confirmation hearings for his current appellate court position that “appear to rise to the level of perjury,” they wrote.

The five topics are: Kavanaugh’s involvement in the judicial nominations of William Pryor and Charles Pickering during his time in the George W. Bush administration; his involvement in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program; his role in handling Bush-era detainee policy; and his awareness of the use of Democratic documents reportedly
stolen by another GOP aide.

Kavanaugh was pressed to explain his past statements to the Senate during this week’s confirmation hearing and sought to clarify his past portrayals. When asked about the conservative Pryor, for instance, the 53-year-old appellate judge said during his previous confirmation hearing that he was not involved in handling the nomination during his service in Bush’s White House.

But after emails released to the Judiciary panel showed Kavanaugh becoming involved with the Pryor pick, President Donald Trump’s high court nominee said that while he was “interested in” Pryor’s progress to confirmation, he was “not the primary person on that.”

The office of the top Democrat on Judiciary, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, did not immediately return a request for comment on the request by the three liberal groups, which asked the party’s senators “to immediately refer this matter to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation and potential criminal charges.”

[TommyJeff]

Why would anybody want a liberty official to be bound to an administration that they get to make zero calls on? to be a VP is to essentially be a figurehead that no longer speaks for themselves but for their president.

This is partly because they, unconstitutionally, run on the same ticket.

[devil21]

Fun thread to go back and compare the original "thoughts" by posters on Kavanaugh compared to those same posters "thoughts" on him now, after the whole media and Congress dog and pony show has played out. The mind-control power of controlled opposition is strong.

[Aratus]

Mister K is a D.C insider who worked under Kenneth Starr. He is SHRUB connected.

The lady judge is something of a newbie. Less time on the bench,
less thoughts in print, less enemies behind the scenes. Less of a
political target, and less 'insider' connected. One of the other two
finalists actually drove cab in Waltham, Massachusetts. The other
guy sounded like he was Anthony Kennedy's faithful apprentice...

Who is the best Supreme Court Justice we've ever had?

John Marshall

Fun thread to go back and compare the original "thoughts" by posters on Kavanaugh compared to those same posters "thoughts" on him now, after the whole media and Congress dog and pony show has played out. The mind-control power of controlled opposition is strong.

Here are a few of my brainfreezes...

[Aratus]

Is Mister K actually a Cheney protege? Those 100,ooo pages actually spill national security chitchat etc...

Lindsey played to his SC base, as Mister K looks like he's at JOHN McCAIN's funeral.
WHAT aRE tHEY all sItTING oN tHAT iS sO tOP sECRET? Way past JAIL HILLARY?????

The ole W gave a road-rage steroid boost to a quasi-military quasi-espionage shadow court system
with Patriot Acts one and two. This more draconian sly court system that brings to mind U.K law and
STUART ERA proceedings like the auld STAR CHAMBERs that Lord Oliver Cromwell abolished could be
where young Monsieur Kavanaugh won his Bushite Spurs right after 911 had our public out for blood.

Mister K = player
Gorsuch = libertarian

Here I start to look underneath things...

[Aratus]

Is Mister K actually a Cheney protege? ...

You'd think that Jeb Bush was President with this pick.

And he had Kenneth Starr as a boss for a time...

Mitch McConnell had moved heaven and earth to get Gorsuch a seat.
Was he always in Kavenaugh's corner? Is this HIS deal? The biggie?

The BUSH insider connections are abundantly obvious.

[Aratus]

He likes beer.

[specsaregood]

So it looks official. 50Yes, 48No.

[Brian4Liberty]

Kavanaugh reached virtually the same conclusion on the Obamacare ACA case.... he wrote an opinion similar to CJ Roberts.... believe me we don't need another $#@!ing Roberts on the court. We need another Thomas. I'd be happy with Judge Nap

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Brett Kavanaugh: “An illegal immigrant worker is not a lawful employee in the United States”

Jack Posobiec backed Kavanaugh?

President Trump has confirmed that his nominee to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court will be 53-year-old appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, the long-reputed frontrunner. The White House managed to keep Trump's pick a secret until roughly 8 minutes before the President's planned announcement, when NBC News confirmed that Kavanaugh had clinched the nomination.

BREAKING: "Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court." https://t.co/5RVZrIaUdm pic.twitter.com/5KTY5lO2Mc
— ABC News (@ABC) July 10, 2018

As Trump pointed out, a dozen of Kavanaugh's 300 DC Circuit opinions have been adopted by the Supreme Court. "There is no one in America more qualified for this position or more deserving." During his remarks, Kavanaugh said his judicial philosophy is straighforward. A judge must interpret the law, not make the law, and interpret the constitution as written. Kavanaugh went to Yale and Yale Law and clerked for Kennedy on the Supreme Court, where he reportedly first met Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first SCOTUS nominee.
As Bloomberg points out, expect a lot of focus on Kavanaugh's 2009 paper arguing that a president shouldn't have to face the distractions of criminal prosecutions and lawsuits while president. Kavanaugh could cast the deciding vote on whether Trump must cooperate with a grand jury subpoena from Robert Mueller. Already, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal is telling reporters that he would ask Kavanaugh to recuse himself from cases related to the Mueller probe.
By choosing Kavanaugh, President Trump has satisfied online bookmakers and Washington insiders alike by selecting Brett Kavanaugh, long rumored to be the front-runner, as his pick to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy. While he reportedly faced opposition from some social conservatives over his ties to former President George W Bush, Kavanaugh benefited from a lengthy history of conservative rulings (he’s served in his current role as circuit judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia since 2006) and the support of White House counsel Don McGahn III, who was tasked with leading the search. Though his rulings on some issues - notably Obamacare - have been seen as controversial by some.
If confirmed, Kavanaugh could trigger a historic shift in the balance of power, creating one of the most conservative courts in generations. This could in turn shift to the right the Court's position on issues including abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, the death penalty and federal regulatory power, according to Bloomberg. He faced stiff opposition from Democrats when he was nominated by Bush in 2006 for the appeals court. His pro-business bona fides including being the only dissenting voice when health insurer Anthem appealed a lower court's rejection of its attempted merger with Cigna.

Democrats said Kavanaugh was too partisan to become a judge. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, now the Democratic leader, called Kavanaugh a "very bright legal foot soldier." He was eventually confirmed in 2006.
On the appeals court, Kavanaugh has largely been a foe of government regulation, voting to strike down rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama. He expressed doubt about Obama’s Clean Power Plan, though the appeals court never ruled on the issue.
Kavanaugh also said he would have thrown out the Obama-era net neutrality rule, which barred internet service providers from slowing or blocking rivals’ content. He voted to give the president the power to fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for any reason.
[...]
Kavanaugh voted to throw out a constitutional challenge to Obamacare in 2011 but left open the possibility the law could be overturned later. He said his colleagues’ decision to uphold the law, and its requirement to either buy insurance or pay a penalty, offered "no real limiting principle" and would have "extraordinary ramifications."
Although he hasn’t ruled directly on abortion rights, he sided with the Trump administration in a fight with an undocumented teenager seeking to end her pregnancy while in federal custody.
In a dissenting opinion, Kavanaugh said he would have blocked the girl, who was 15 weeks pregnant, from having an abortion for at least another week. The government said it was trying to find a sponsor for the girl so that officials wouldn’t have to "facilitate" her trip to an abortion clinic. The girl later had the procedure.

According to one measure cited by Axios, Kavanaugh would be the second-most conservative justice on the court.

Kavanaugh is also widely known for the fact that he drafted much of the Starr Report, which led to Bill Clinton's impeachment, and also included graphic details about sexual acts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Trump’s nomination has set in motion what could be a weekslong confirmation process as Republicans struggle with an precariously flimsy majority of one (thanks to Sen. John McCain’s expected absence due to illness). As the Wall Street Journal points out, both pro- and anti-choice groups are planning millions of dollars in ad buys targeting the states of potential swing voters on both sides of the aisle. According to Marc Short, the Whtie House legislative director, Kavanaugh is expected to be confirmed by Oct. 1. Though given the high stakes and the number of opinions Kavanaugh has authored, Democrats could try to stretch it out until after the mid-terms.
Unsurprisingly, the RNC cheered Kavanaugh's nomination, calling him a "champion of the rule of law."

NEW: "Judge Kavanaugh is the best choice to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy and Senate Democrats must put partisan politics aside and vote to confirm him to the Supreme Court," the RNC says in a statement https://t.co/MGNpLeb2xk pic.twitter.com/EBWdjsoGz9
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 10, 2018

The NRA also hailed him as "a fantastic pick." But at least one swing-vote Republican refused to outright endorse him: Susan Collins said only that Kavanaugh had "impressive credentials."
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is also out with a statement:

"Trump has put reproductive rights and freedoms and health care protections for millions of Americans on the judicial chopping block," Schumer said. "His own writings make clear that he would rule against reproductive rights and freedoms, and that he would welcome challenges to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act."
[...]
"If he were to be confirmed, women’s reproductive rights would be in the hands of five men on the Supreme Court."
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"I will oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have, and I hope a bipartisan majority will do the same. The stakes are simply too high for anything less."

Given Kavanaugh's history of siding with business over workers, the AFL-CIO also released a statement slamming his nomination.

Kavanaugh "routinely rules against working families, regularly rejects employees’ right to receive employer-provided health care, too often sides with employers in denying employees relief from discrimination in the workplace and promotes overturning well-established U.S. Supreme Court precedent."

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More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...is-scotus-pick

Wonderful choice.

[Swordsmyth]

So it looks official. 50Yes, 48No.

@Bryan bring back Specs.
#NeanderthalLivesMatter.

Just admit that Josh was wrong.

[unknown]

Kavanaugh reached virtually the same conclusion on the Obamacare ACA case.... he wrote an opinion similar to CJ Roberts.... believe me we don't need another $#@!ing Roberts on the court. We need another Thomas. I'd be happy with Judge Nap

Judge Nap all day.

The closest thing that we would have had to a real constitutional based judge.