Correct me if I am wrong but I also read that for a Conservative judge, he was more moderate and would be the deciding vote on the bench?
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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing - Ford & Kavanaugh testimony - 9/27 at 10am ET
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Unless someone has proof that he got in through legacy due to his grandpa, it's not perjury.
Yes, what you are describing is the logical progression of an investigation. Time limits are put in place for good reasons (hopefully). What's the logic behind a week for this one?
Edit: and possibly more important: who chose the timeframe?
He's also complicit in preventing a recount in Bush v Gore to give Bush the presidency, giving the green light to voter purges and racial gerrymandering strategies in red states, crippling public unions that generally support the democratic party, ripping out campaign finance regulations with Citizens United, and overturning the voting rights act of '65 as partisan attacks on the democratic party. I'm sure I missed some, but the supreme court has not just been undemocratic, it's become more and more anti-democratic and he's one of the key people in that movement.
"I have no connections there. I got there by busting my tail."
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The word is that he specifically retired for a deal that included picking Kavanaugh to replace him (and possibly protect his son too)
Pretty corrupt and undemocratic for a guy crying about the danger democracy is in.
Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of his history, which is quite grotesque.
I feel like the time limit is imposed so they still have time to put up another justice nomination before the democrats take over should they win the senate.
So disgraceful. The only thing missing is a White Power sign from the lady in the middle to really show what the GOP values.
You think his granddad was still at Yale when Kavanaugh wanted to get in? This alone is not enough to accuse Kavanaugh of lying.
It is just another false statement in the laundry list of lies he told in the Thursday hearing and his confirmation hearing. Bernie Sanders outlines all the lies told that are far more substantial than this one.
I don't know what this means. His grandfather is a connection to the University whether he used it or not, it's a connection. There's a reason that legacies have a leg up, he lied because he was worried that if he mentioned the connection it would make him look bad. He had the hook up, if it was used or not is irrelevant to his truthfulness.
It's like saying, "I didn't know Brett, we never talked about murdering Tammy"
You may have not talked about murdering Tammy but lying about knowing Brett is still perjury.
A legacy is a legacy, regardless of how far away it is. And being a legacy admission did and still does give you an advantage over non-legacy admissions.
https://www.businessinsider.com/legacy-kids-have-an-admissions-advantage-2013-6
Legacy just means that someone else in your family had attended the school. Generally parents are the most important connections, but I'd assume grandparents could be some kind of connection. If his grandfather was a large enough name, no question.
It should be noted that legacies aren't guranteed a place in the school.
I'll let you know when its over. Despite the WH news a week is a long damn time for things to turn up.
Those are the arms of 17 year olds so it doesn't even matter!
oh wait he got confirmed?? no need to quote me until then champ
When you go back and analize everything and see this, you can tell that everything is by design, Supreme Court has been partisan leaning republican trought more than one generation, and the steps taken by GOP is basically making sure they have some form of control in the way laws are shaped in this country.
Legacy students, at the very worst, receive an extra look through their applications if they aren't accepted initially. That alone is enough to say he lied. He may have busted his tail, but he still had a connection.
Things to turn up? Like what? We already know that there's a very narrow scope of the investigation. Have you been keeping up?
Are you prepared to be dragged if he is? You talked a big game, so I wonder if that put a dent in your optimism.
He's in?
Seriously, don't quote me with some petty bullshit a day later because I'd rather not give into anxiety with some of ya. Hop on era after a nice day and I've got jokers with a vendetta following me around. Good grief.
Read your post and you may realize that it's not normal. You want the guy to be miserable? You almost seem like you're gunning for it and it's pretty strange. Like seriously, what's going on with some of you? Why would you be so gung ho about putting a dent in someone's optimism of all things?
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"Goofballs" has a nicer ring to it and "jokers" doesn't have the same panache. Too bad you edited it out.
A simple "still optimistic/hopeful" would've been sufficient, but some people can't help being jerks I guess.
Oh my God. I mean it's accurate, but seeing it like that is just....wow.
Hope is remaining years are lonely and full of awful health. Go fuck yourself Kennedy.
No way, they told him stay strong and we'll vote you through no matter what happens. "Just keep Trump's confidence and you will get through"
i don't know why you would have posted something like your original round up question other than to be a jerk so that's a pretty weird charge to make.
"That's just what we call a little white perjury. It's no big deal!"
Pretty amazing that the photoshopped version got to you first.
That tells you something of the effort and spread.
I was offended that he reportedly had a say in the replacement. I am offended that any SCOTUS Justice would dare do this.
The institution matters to me.
There's a difference between "penny for your thoughts" and "I bet the news on the news on the investigation really fucked up that bullshit optimism of yours, eh?"
Like I said, a simple "still hopeful/optimistic" would've sufficed.
Not responding would have sufficed to be honest. What are you gaining by randomly baiting people? Nothing even changed here
Hmm...believe a pathological liar or a professional news outlet. Tough decision there.
Could be that Trump himself doesn't care who they talk to but the people actually calling the shots and directing the investigation in the DoJ do. It seems more likely to me that the White House is setting limits it but is denying it to make the investigation look more impartial than it is.
Knowing him there's a good chance he just told them one thing and tweeted another
That's not what a connection is. If my mom went to Red Lobster and I went there the week after, I don't have a connection at Red Lobster. If she went there, they liked her, and somehow remembered her, and I went and said "Hey my mom was here last week, remember her?" and they go "oh yeah she was lovely have this great seat" - THAT is a connection, because it has to do with the person at the institution.
I mean, dude is a slimeball, but it's a real reach to say you can call it perjury in what you're talking about - maybe he did, maybe they only got him in because of his Grandfather, but that's not inherently true just because he went there. It wouldn't surprise me if the school was partly aware of the connection, maybe even Brett's parents talked to them at some point, like they could've rolled out the red carpet and he just didn't even know they did any of that, it's still not perjury then. Do I think all of that is super likely? No, but the point is that it's not a talking point you can prove, and it dilutes the ACTUAL important stuff we should be worried about, with something flippant.
IDK about you, but the "Skis" are way more interesting than trying to GOTTEM over the fact that he has privilege in his life.
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Because that's exactly how our opposition wants us to feel so we let our guard down. This isn't normal, none of this is. It's okay for us to feel this way.
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