Schumer:
In a Monday evening tweet that ânot a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow
If this is true⌠Schumer has to go, Or is he just going to change parties so he can get in on some of the grift.
That the Senate Judiciary majority staff thinks this is a joke is infuriating. They are not even trying to put a fig leaf on their attempt to railroad this nomination.
Knowing how transparent and fair the Republicans are trying to be with this illegitimate nomination, Iâm sure that none of these 42,000 documents or the 100,000 still being withheld have even one incriminating word. The commercials say Kavanaugh is A-OK, and ya gotta believe commercials paid for by the people who will benefit from him getting on the bench, right?
Maybe the Grassley grifters were given the documentation earlier.
Maybe the GOP has not reviewed anything and will wholey vote for Kavanaugh no matter what.
Maybe the release of documents should be done several days prior to hearings.
I feel certain that the GOP is not hiding anything. Bend over folks. Here it comes again.
Youâre talking about Sen Dianne Feinstein, Ranking Member, calling the shots here. Democrats and seniority, putting the most feeble in charge.
And then of course over in the Senate thereâs Boss Schumer threatening Republicans with his butter knife.
Dotard is an unindicted co-conspiritor in 2 cases alreadyâŚHe should blocked from making ANY LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS TILL SETTLED.â Merritt Garlandâ and mcturdle the thief come to mindâŚ
Call them outâŚLoudly and firmlyâŚ
How is DiFi calling the shots here? She is in the minority, no?
ETA - Schumer in the hearing room with a butter knife was my guess in the Senate version of Clue. Apt metaphor for what this looks like from the outside - thanks for the image.
Yes, sheâs in the minority but is ranking member for the minority, meaning she determines action to be taken by the minority - either lay down and accept the last minute 42,000 page document dump on Kavanaugh or protest and donât show up. Sen Whitehouse said as much this morning.
ETA: to your point, I wonder whoâs going to stand up and rock the boat, who in the minority will challenge Feinstein? Perfect opportunity for Sen Harris, at 53, to grab the mic from grandma (85) and force the men to put on their Big Boy pants. I donât think sheâs as appearance obsessed as the men. Opportunity knocks ⌠once again.
One can only hope that a majority of dems on the committee will convince her (Feinstein) to dump the docs immediately. My guess is we will see the docs today, too much at stake to capitulate.
It might be a good idea to sort of crowd-source the committeeâs review, given the sheer number of pages.
You donât want to anger Schumer. You donât want to see Chuck ticked-off. Why, next time he might only allow you to approve 20 new judges in a 2 hour session, instead of the usual 40. He might even say something - not like a full debate or anything, not the nuclear option, but something, maybe something sort of snide or mean.
Laugh it up, Chuckles. Winter is coming.
Come-on now, you wanted documents, you got them⌠bwah, bwah, bwah, so what that they were released on a holiday at 2300, you got themâŚnever can please those DemocratsâŚthe actual shock will be when a poor underpaid staffer comes out with a smoking gun document that was unintentionally left in, just because the REPUGS were trying to play gamesâŚ
Seems like only yesterdayâŚthe wingers on the right were whining about funerals that were âtoo politicalââŚthese fuckers know no decency.
Can some one tell me how one administration can claim âexecutive privilegeâ for another administrationâs documents? I can understand that if some who worked in the WH currently is now going through a confirmation hearing during the same administration they were hire into claims âexecutive privilege,â but crossover privilege I donât understand.
The key phrase is âdocuments of the type traditionally protected by constitutional privilegeâ. That could mean effing anything. Documents printed on paper? Documents ccâd to the president? Documents with justified margins? And then the lawyers for Bush ostensibly defer to the lawyers for the current occupant, who never should have had access for purposes of review in the first place.
Did the GOP not play âfairâ again?!
Shocked! Shocked I say! Actually the shocking (and good!) thing would be if the Dems ever learn this lesson and stop allowing the GOP to use âthrowing away tradition and civilityâ against the Dems at every turn.
Wrong. Democrats being in the Senate minority do not have anything to do with any âmajority staff membersâ, and Dianne Feinstein isnât âcalling the shotsâ. Ranking member means âhead of the minority sideâ. Pretty basic civics stuff, but then you wouldnât be able to continue your rants against every Democrat in Congress.
Thatâs because it does not exist.
Theoretically, the United States does not dissolve and reinstate governments, so while the executive is replaced, the continuity of government persists.
In practice this is utter trash. Privilege is not absolute and the Senateâs constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on Supreme Court nominees overrides the construct of executive privilege which doesnât hold up well in court precisely because preventing the bodies of Congress from being a check on the executive branch prevents the balance of power from balancing.
But all of that is moot because the minority party canât force the majority to file a case in Federal Court. The Constitution does not have a remedy for when both the Executive and Legislature are corrupt. Elections are the only option which is why Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders were always dangerous interloopers.