Discussion: Booker Releases Kavanaugh's Emails On 'Racial Profiling'

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Surprising that Kavanaugh has not yet invoked youthful virginity as his defense. Come on Sen. Booker, it was 16 years ago.

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Glad Sen. Booker did it. Kindof wish heā€™d gotten 20+ Democratic Senators to co-sign to give him a little more cover and to show the broad Democratic support for his actions. But definitely glad he did it.

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In a follow-up memo Kavanaugh suggested a change to TSA uniforms to better reflect its basis in Kabuki.

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Look out yā€™all, gregor яŠ²Š»ŃŠµŃ‚ся Š°ŠæŠ¾Š»Š¾Š³ŠµŃ‚Š¾Š¼ Š¢Ń€Š°Š¼ŠæŠ°.

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CBooker: fortifying his ā€˜street credā€™ for spot on '20 ticket.

NOT that thereā€™s anything WRONG with his assault on repugnican committee bullshit, mind you - happy to see it!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/06/cory-bookers-dramatic-violation-senate-rules-explained/?utm_term=.df73be219b4d

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If an entire party can ignore the constitution, who cares if some ignore the vaunted ā€œSenate rules.ā€

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Congress is broken.

This document needs no secrecy. Republicans simply want to hide it from the public.

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Grassley and the other Repubs need to be fully taken to task for keeping so many documents out of this process. I donā€™t really see this one as that much of a bombshell, though; I think thereā€™s a better chance that the Roe vs. Wade email might move the needle for Murkowski, maybe even Collins (though I highly doubt it in the latter case).

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IMO, not damning enough to give any Republican senator pause.

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Now Lindsey Graham and Ben Saashole will find it ā€œtroublingā€, not the racial profiling, but the fact that Booker has real guts.

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The damning nature of these emails is as much the fact that the Republicans tried to hide the message as much as it is the content of the message. There is no legitimate excuse for these emails to have been withheld from the public.

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So, if this email is inconsequential (as many are suggesting) why hide it? And what else is purposely being hidden?

Good for Booker. Now itā€™s Kamalaā€™s turn.

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Exactly. And I didnā€™t see your comment before making mine.

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Gregor, here in America everyone gets to focus on ancient history, and conservatives do it endlessly and without fail (or irony).

Is it different where you come from?

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Oh my starts and garters!

Roll out the fainting couches! And, where did we leave those smelling salts?

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Is there any such thing anymore?

Iā€™d like to see Dem Senators release a different set of documents individually. They have different strengths in communicating on different issues and itā€™s a good way to keep any further public messaging uniform since they can refer to the individual Senatorā€™s reasoning (& cuts some slack to Senators who arenā€™t going to ever join their peers like Manchin).

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I notice my Senator from Texas, Cornyn, had to get his little nasty jab in there at Booker. I keep wondering when Cornyn will do ANYTHING constructive for Texas and not always worry about his fucking repub party!!!

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