āI understand how passionate and how deeply people feel about this issue,ā Kavanaugh says on abortion rights. āI donāt live in a bubble.ā
Have you declared bankruptcy due to the inability to pay for medical bills? Have you slept in a shelter for lack of housing? Have you been denied a mortgage or job or entry to the voting booth because of your skin color? Have you been refused an adoption because or your partner's gender? Have you visited a food bank just to have your next meal?
No? Well then you live in fucking bubble, like a lot of us do. Just admit it.Feinstein was a weak questioner. She let him go at the end, not pointedly asking him if the President of the US is subjected to the same laws as everyone else.
He called it āsettled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under stare decisis.ā
Plessy was a SCOTUS precedent, until it wasnāt.
Iām imagining a physicist being interviewed about special relativity and saying similar things. Weād think such a physicist was bonkers. Kavanaugh: objectively pro-dead-women.
He called it āsettled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under stare decisis.ā
Let me finish that for you, Judge Kavanaugh. Dredd Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson were also settled precedents āentitled to respect under stare decisisā. Given your beliefs and your previous writings on the subject, you would vote to overturn Roe as wrongly decided.
Beat me to itā¦
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Iād love to see someone engage Kavanaugh on Bush v. Gore, not merely for his role in it, but to pin him down on whether it was rightly or wrongly decided.
Maybe someone will get personal and ask if his daughters attended Parkland High School would his views on assault weapons be different. Itās only fair since they made a big deal about his wonderful family.
I donāt think this guy is going to give a single definitive answer today on anything.
And if he said, āTodayās September 5, 2018ā Iād check a calendar before believing it.
That is an obvious lie.
No person who does not live in a bubble will spend tens of thousands of dollars for baseball tickets.
Do you really think heād let any questioner get the better of him. Heās been briefed countless times, had practice sessions til he could repeat the answers in his sleep, heās got an evasive answer for everything. But thanks for letting us know what the opposition is likely to say about the senator.
What matters in this is not really his answers, for the reasons you cite, but that the pointed questions get asked.
He couldnāt be much clearer that he will vote to undermine or overturn Roe. Heās doing just enough to give Collins and Murkowski plausible deniability.
Keep up the charade, Judge. Everyone knows where you stand. Itās not like youāre convincing anyone.
What goodās a pointed question if he easily and predictably evades the question. Confirmation hearings are a Kabuki dance, theatre, the nominees have always dodged answers. Heās just doing what theyāve all known.
However, we saw the real man yesterday when he glared at Mr. Guttenberg, the father of a girl killed at Parkland H.S, and wouldnāt shake his hand. Itās the unscripted moments which weāll remember long after word salad answers.
There are going to be R state Dems going along as well, names to be announced.
The only reason this perjurer was appointed to the court is that he will absolutely, with no question, vote to overturn Roe v Wade, as well as other decisions that donāt favor the corporations that own the government. It will be much more fruitful to get him to discuss his lies to Congress when he was sitting there wanting his current job. I think he might wilt under that line of questioning. Of course he will be approved by the committee even if he admits his lies, but thatās going to happen anyway.