Whitehouse zeroed in on Kavanaugh’s effort to mislead the committee. The guy is a total snake and a sleeze. Unfortunately, if Collins votes for him, he is confirmed, and Collins is a RSINO (Reasonable Senator In Name Only) who will punk for the right wing.
I think the only hope is that Jeff Flake comes out and says he will not put up with Kavanaugh’s evasions, and is voting no. (He genuinely seems troubled in parts of his questioning). That really puts Collins (and to some extent Mirkowski) in a box, and gives the D’s some cover.
Do it Jeff, Do it… (fingers crossed)
I believe it is U.S. vs. Nixon…
Adding “Sen” before Whitehouse in the headline would be clearer. 
I am going to have to be very careful in my reading, in general, when the good Senator’s name is mentioned. It is one word vs. two.
OMG. Kavanaugh just refused to say that it is wrong to fire someone because they’re gay. Booker started by saying he wanted to ask a few, quick, yes/no questions to lead to one question that he didn’t know how Kavanaugh would respond to. AND KAVANAUGH WOULDN’T SAY THAT. He is worse than Gorsuch and, if confirmed, I’m convinced we’re doomed.
Doomed? Not even close. Buck up and get back out there troop.
Kavanaugh’s refusal to say it was wrong to fire someone for being gay has even the Republicans worried. Tom Tillis just asked to time to clean up after Kavanaugh - and he did so by saying HE wouldn’t fire a gay person because of his sexual orientation.
I’m not giving up the fight - I’m an old lady who has been a political activist since I was a young teen. Today, however, was very depressing. I probably shouldn’t have watched the hearings all day (I didn’t play hooky from work; I’m a professor who will do my preparation on the week end instead.) Kavanaugh will be very bad for what most of us here at TPM value in society.
Understood.
I think everyone knows that and there isn’t much we can do - Cory and Kamala and Leahy have done extraordinarily at the hearings - they’ve done a lot more than I expected. Yes he’ll be confirmed. And it might be painful but one SCOTUS justice does not spell DOOM. We don’t know, any of us, what will happen tomorrow. Was it not a giant surprise when Scalia dropped dead?
If they start rolling back rights then we mount up and go back to war like we did to get the fucking rights in the first place. Do not forget that we are the Majority in this country.
What hit me hard today was Kavanaugh’s refusal to defend basic rights for gay people. It brought to mind a young man I taught in grad classes - intelligent, conscientious, liked, but always a bit lonely. He gave up his arts field, moved, away and got into med school (smart guy). Then he came out as gay and just last week got married. He seems, for the first time in the years I knew him, truly happy and comfortable with himself. Just imagining what many young people might have to go through if even some of their rights are rescinded made me sad. But tomorrow is another day. . . . .
marby, it is much much harder take a right away from people than it is for the people to get the right in the first place.
They cannot unmarry all these lawfully married couples. It would create legal chaos and even they can see that.
I hope you’re right.
Well I am certain I’m right about the legal chaos that would ensue if they decided to nullify tens of thousands of legal marriages. Marriage has an effect on about 1700 different legal relationships - seriously.
We don’t know yet what will happen but I am more hopeful than I’ve been in a long time - so I hope I’m right too and I believe I am.
Kavanaugh may be the worst conservative nominee to the Supreme Court since Robert Bork. Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, and Roberts are/were right-wing ideologues of varying intensity. So is Kavanaugh but what distinguishes him is he spent years deeply entrenched in the most heinous Republican partisan politics, e.g.: Ken Starr’s investigations.
Sure, the right-wing ideology almost always aligns with Republican political goals but none of the current conservative justices seem as slavishly partisan to me as Kavanaugh does. Who knows. Maybe they are and what’s different about Kavanaugh is he has a resumé and paper trail he can’t hide from - as hard as Grassley, et al. try to hide it.
The cherry on top is that Trump’s Presidency is almost certain to face an existential legal challenge in the next two years. Lo and behold, the court nominee who rises to the top is one who has unusually expansive views on the President’s immunity to personal legal challenges.
I’m thinking Whitehouse for the White House.
I’m cautiously hopeful that by Sen. Hirono pointing out that Kavanaugh has problems with native peoples and their rights (affirmative action, acknowledgement that they exist) is a warning flare to Murkoski, that Roe v. Wade is not settled law because the SC can change that is a poke at Collins, and so I hope that there is just one more Republican that see this snake for what he is - a snake.
I’m sure Hirono made those points with exactly the intention of getting to either Murkowski or Collins. If either of them has the least bit of integrity or respect for their constituents, she will vote no.
Kav is so clever. His snakeness is cloaked well.