That presentation was excellent. No secret there how the rulings will end up. Might as well have a robot for the Supreme Court candidate.
I read Whitehouse and âRobert 5â and thought the headline was referencing something Trump said.
Shouldnât the headline be âRobertâs 5â?
Well, at least the comments are working on this thread. I gave up on TPM earlier today when I couldnât comment on 3 out of 3 recently posted articles.
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley returned to Whitehouseâs remarks after the lunch break, and said that the press should not tolerate the âdouble standardâ of the senatorâs attacks on the Supreme Court, given the scrutiny President Trumpâs criticisms of the judiciary are given.
WTF is Grassley talking about? What does Trumpâs mean mouthing the DOJ and the courts based on lies and conspiracy theory have to do with Whitehouseâs FACTUAL delineation of Robertâs Court rulings and their impact on the common good? Surely he can come up with better quality bullshit than that. Maybe the GOP is finally running low on bullshit.
Superb. Factual with numbers. About content, not process. And one more reason the corporations and the rich are winning everything. Does anyone have any idea what Cruz was talking about when he said Democrats wanted to weaken First Amendment? Was it Citizens United? In true Cruz fashion, he âwas not forthcoming.â
Watch Whitehouse closely this week. A former trial lawyer, heâs the best questioner on the committee, and very likely the best in the Senate.
Sen Whitehouseâs clear, tough, true takedown of Kavanaugh & the powers behind him was one of the strongest, greatest statements Iâve ever- ever- heard from a Senator. Makes me hope someone starts a Whitehouse for President movement. It was that great.
Looking closely at Kavanaugh for the first time, taking in his career and forming a first-hand impression of his demeanor and judicial record, the portrait emerges of an exceptionally nasty piece of work who for decades has raged with a kind of revanchist anger based on psychological and ideological grievances that bubble up from some warp in his personality. These kinds of guys donât just make terrible asshole judges. They do other terrible or ugly stuff in their personal lives. Iâll bet this dude has skeletons in his closet.
Theyâll never run out. Itâs what theyâre made of.
âThe lives of over 300 million Americans are being affected by policies [and SCOTUS and Federal Judges] foisted on them by a Senate âmajorityâ that represents less than one-fifth of them and a president who was elected with three million fewer votes than his opponent.â
And they are almost all wealthy white males.
That is our fake âdemocracy.â That is our fake ârepresentative republic.â That is our fake âchecks and balances.â
That is our Constitution.
What is Whitehouse or any other Democrat going to do about that?
Itâs the classic Republicanât Double Standard, and the Royal Court Stenographers, the lame-ohs who pass for our âfree pressâ these days, will dutifully report that, when it comes to Supreme Court Bashing, âBoth sides do it.â What a world we live inâŚ
Iâm thinking he has the whole freakinâ graveyard in there. Ainât no room for the bogeyman.
I know this isnât a popular position at the moment, but Democrats really need to consider expanding the number of Justices on the Court as soon as they once again gain control of both the White House and the Congress (hopefully as soon as 2020). I think this would be a completely appropriate response to McConnellâs Merrick Garland coup.
Blumenthal also just did a brilliant takedown of Grassley and the GOP handling of the hearing process itself. I know it wonât do any good, but it makes me feel (just a little bit) that the day will come when we will return to some kind of normal functioning of government.
Yes. And in order to preserve and fortify that option, they need to start talking about the illegitimacy of this nominee and the nomination process. For all the commendable remarks made this morning, I donât believe anyone has yet uttered that word.
Like this:
He probably wants offshore oil spills reclassified as âoil paintingâ and put under first-amendment protection as a form of âexpression.â
Sadly I have to say that the repubs have the votes to confirm kavanaugh. I pointed out to those who just couldnât vote for Hillary, that the Supreme Court was also in play. I hope they are happy.
If you assume that either the GOP doesnât regain control (which it hasnât lost yet) of government or the GOP wonât further expand the court if it does regain control, then expansion is a good idea.
That seems like an unsafe bet to me, especially if we are unable to unwind most of the partisan gerrymandering that has happened since the 2010 census.
He has to - he looks way too much like an evangelical preacher on TV not to have closets full of perverse and ugly shit,