His answers weren’t credible.
If any attorney behaved in his court the way he behaved Thursday, Kavanaugh would have thrown the book at him/her.
He thinks he doesn’t deserve this.
Well, neither did the women who are stepping forward.
The man who hounded Bill Clinton like his personal Inspector Javert has more than a few kegs in his own closet. This is quite the karmic comeuppance.
No shit.
I wasn’t a Kavanaugh classmate and even I know many of his answers were in fact lies.
I had friends on my freshman dorm floor at an ivy league school (not Yale) rushing DKE in 1986, it is not credible that anyone w/o vast drinking experience would even rush DKE, never mind survive the process without even vaster drinking experience. Just admit it, why is that so hard. He’s catholic not baptist anyway.
ps-> there were kids on my dorm floor using all the terminology from his yearbook, so who exactly does he think he’s fooling by lying about that if the language is widely distributed up and down the east coast???
pps-> out of curiosity I googled the chapter of DKE my dorm-mates rushed, it is reforming after a 5 year ban to purge the culture; they had a 2 year ban to maintain continuity but violated probation and got the boom lowered.
Reposting this, fwiw. I’m sure there’s definitely some truth to what he says. Helps explain that effing David Broder’s remark about Clinton. Entitled assholes all around.
And you not what really burns me? People like the Clintons care far more about the rest of us than all the those entitled jerks, and that’s why those “aristocrats” do their best to convince the starry-eyed dopes, the unicorn-believers, the “both sides are the same” proponents, the desperate, the hopeless, the ultra-religious, the uninformed, that our government is broken and some person will save them.
Maybe the White House can constrain the FBI investigation and maybe it can’t. But they won’t stop people talking—they don’t yet have that power, oh my goodness no. Kavanaugh needs to understand he’s destroying himself if he lets this go on. It’s long been known that Clarence Thomas was, in fact, really a sexual harasser. Evidence they suppressed has long been known to exist, other women he harassed and so forth. It’s an open non-secret, not widely known but known where it matters. He sits on the Supreme Court but he’s still held in contempt. And he never even tried to rape anybody. Kavanaugh might make it too. I hope not. But he should hope not too, because nobody will ever look at him without knowing what he is, and he’ll know they’re looking at him that way, and any sense of accomplishment he might feel will have that flavor mixed in. Maybe he has one true friend, the kind of friend Trump didn’t and doesn’t have, to tell him what he’s facing.
Kav has shown that he has no judicial temperament and is unfit to serve on our Supreme Court.
Any reputable law school will shun him. Lawyers won’t smirk in the Court, but anyone in the audience opposed to him will. He will not be respected, because his issues will always come up, especially the abuse charges.
Roberts and the other three will also be additionally tainted because of him. At some point, he’ll be impeached anyway.
Hey, go for it, scumbags.
No way. I wouldn’t let that bully be a crossing guard.
If you know someone’s been credibly accused of a serious crime, you can never look at that person the same way. It’s really best to live the kind of life where such a thing is unthinkable. That kind of droit du seigneur those privileged punks inflicted on women seen as unworthy of regard might have seemed normal to them but it’s sickening and repulsive to the rest of us and merits a life sentence of contempt in my own estimation. There are things an honorable person just does not do.
Government does many things well. Hillary was one of those who did good. She touched on this a few times during campaign. The last paragraph in this article hits the nail on the head… sorry slightly ot.
Apparently the Boston Globe agrees.
First paragraph: “Make no mistake: Brett Kavanaugh’s a liar.”
BTW This is not an opinion piece; it’s a freakin’ editorial!
Plus Clarence Thomas went on to grope someone in front of a witness in 1998. That’s only one, how many others were victimized by him (as a Supreme Court judge) that were afraid to come forward?
Although not apropos of this thread, I was wondering whether in light of the reality that Kavanaugh will never be impeached, can he be disbarred?
Apparently yes, a judge can be disbarred, but being a lawyer is not a requisite for SCOTUS justices.
And defending a behavior one has not yet defined.
I like beer. How much clearer can I possibly be?
I’m just curious, how does Martha Kavanaugh (B’s mother) feel about raising a sexual predator for a son. Surely, as a judge, she recognized the lying, alcoholism, and predatory behaviors early on.
“In the nights that he drank to excess”. So, pretty much every night, eh?
Sure, anyone who’s barred can be disbarred if they commit a breach of judicial or legal ethics sufficient to warrant it. I wondered that about Scalia and, after that whole unreported income thing became known, Thomas too, but disbarment is no constitutional hindrance to being on the Supreme Court.