Democrats Call For Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote To Be Postponed Over Perjury Charges

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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/09/09/democrats-call-for-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-vote-to-be-postponed-over-perjury-charges.html

Posted on Sun, Sep 9th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Democrats Call For Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote To Be Postponed Over Perjury Charges


House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote to be postponed while charges that the nominee perjured himself are investigated.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats tweeted:

Link to tweet

The House Judiciary Democrats linked to a New York Times editorial that discussed some of Kavanaugh’s perjury:

In that 2004 hearing and again in 2006, when he was being considered for a seat on the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Mr. Kavanaugh told Congress, under oath, that he knew nothing about the extensive theft of secret strategy documents from Democratic senators’ computers by Republican staffers. As it turns out, he did in fact receive those documents or summaries of them. But he now claims that he had no reason to believe that they had been stolen, even though one email he got had the subject line “spying” and began, “I have a friend who is a mole for us on the left.”

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Then there are the persistent doubts about his truthfulness in telling senators in 2006 that he had no knowledge of Mr. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program or his detainee treatment policy — claims that have been called into question by yet more emails, which showed he knew about both of those things years before they became public.

Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Lying Under Oath For Decades

Kavanaugh should be ashamed of how he got to the doorstep of becoming a Supreme Court justice, but he is the one wrote the modern playbook for unpopular Republican Supreme Court nominees. Kavanaugh has said nothing, and without Democrats on the committee asking the tough questions and releasing documents, the American people would know nothing about Trump’s nominee.

There are two pieces of good news. The Kavanaugh nomination could still be stopped, and if Kavanaugh is confirmed, it is possible to impeach a Supreme Court justice.

The Democrats are right. It is time to pull the emergency brake and stop this Kavanaugh farce. If Republicans do confirm Kavanaugh, it will their last act as a majority in the House and possibly the Senate as well, as voters will make them pay in November.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. want Dems to stand up?

If you want Democrats to stand up, you have to stand with them.
You have to have their backs and their flanks against GOP and tv.
Let 'em know they're right.


(In before we see more whining about political theatre and spines and shit).

[sheshe2]

5. +++ 1000

[BigmanPigman]

11. YES! Call them and call them often!

I called and will continue to do so. I also thanked the Dems who stood up to fight. We ALL must fight, no EXCUSES! Here is contact info. Call the Dem and GOP senators who are "iffy" too. Get an address from Zillow (google "Zillow homes for sale" for each individual senator's state for an address and zip) and it WORKS! Use your cell phone area since that can be from anywhere so it doesn't matter. This is in case they ask but they seldom do. I have done it hundreds of times (not exaggerating). It literally takes 3 min to Google it and two min to call. JUST DO IT!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11102387
Go down to the replies for contact info. RESIST!

[treestar]

34. Exactly!

They call it blind following but never get that the bully pulpit they love so much is nothing without support !

[Bettie]

52. This is what I was hoping to see

they are fighting the battle.

Yeah, we may lose the war, but they are giving it their all and that is worth it.

[john657]

54. Other way around,

we may lose the battle, but we're going to win the war.

[Bettie]

55. That was what I meant

but my brain is fuzzy today. Just a really, really stressful week...teenagers + husband with back pain = me on edge!

[john657]

56. Been there, done that,

plus the stress of running my own business.

Had to fire one of my better employees today, started using racial comments about Pres. Obama.

I don't care about someone's political views, as long as they don't bring it to the work place and I will not tolerate racial comments from my employees, so I had to let him go.

[Iliyah]

2. McTurtle will force a vote and the repigs will fall in line.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. i believe you are ridiculing my senator

If so, please continue.


McTurtle may be forced to chicken out if there is enough noise coming from the public. Not all Repug incumbents have decided to retire after their current term.

[still_one]

27. Unfotunately you're scenario is the most likely outcome

[madaboutharry]

3. Trump picked Kavanaugh to protect him in the Mueller investigation.

That is clear as day. Kavanaugh has serious baggage and everyone knows it.

Another crisis created by Trump's incompetency and criminality.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. True. But I give credit to the Dems on the committee for fighting.

[idcdu]

6. Kavanaugh has lost his nomination

Trump will be removed before the confirmation is done.

The Republicans attempt to ram it through will spectacularly fail.

Watch.

[john657]

7. I hope so,

but I am inclined to say you're living in a fantasy.

Welcome to DU.

[AncientGeezer]

13. How....if he croaked today the vote would go on.

Dumpster nominates.....Senate confirms.
Dumpster has done his end of the process.....Watch.

[dchill]

40. They would install a corpse to the Supreme Court.

[Codeine]

16. One wishes that were so,

but a moment’s rational thought demonstrates that it most assuredly is not.

[ehrnst]

18. I wish that was likely.

And I won't blame Democratic Senators if it doesn't come to pass.

They are doing everything legally possible to stop this, and to help Dem Senators running for re-election in Red states for the midterms.

[Eyeball_Kid]

35. This is a guess based on what information? n/t

[john657]

38. Crystal ball?

[Sanity Claws]

51. Tarot cards

I got the 10 of Swords. He's been skewered!

[john657]

53. Cool, or as my granddaughter likes to spell it,

kewl.

[idcdu]

58. *ahem* - a criminal referral to the FBI was made today by DiFi

and his vote was delayed to next week, and may end up indefinitely delayed until the FBI referral is complete.

[red dog 1]

46. Watch what?

The only way "Trump will be removed from office before the confirmation is done" is if God intervenes and Shitler dies within the next 2 or 3 weeks, which is not likely to happen.

Welcome to DU!

[ProudLib72]

8. I fully expect Rs to poo poo this and confirm him

I am also counting on Dems to immediately start impeachment after the mid-terms.

[john657]

10. Impeaching him is the easy part,

it's getting the 67 Senators to convict and remove him that's the problem.

[Turbineguy]

9. If he were not a liar

trump would have never nominated him.

[MontanaMama]

26. That's about as true as it gets.

[Freethinker65]

12. Not gonna happen if the GOP has the votes to confirm

As long as the votes are there, nuclear war could break out and the GOP would hold the vote to confirm.

[john657]

14. Nuclear War might be better than this POS getting confirmed.

I kid, I kid, but you get my drift.

[BlueJac]

15. Don't BS us on that!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Perjury would make him the shakiest Supreme Court Justice ever

a rotting foundation and it won't be forgotten

[thesquanderer]

29. His votes would count the same, no matter how shady (or shaky) he is (nt)

[bucolic_frolic]

33. Investigations of him will continue

It's a matter of substantial political majorities to do anything about it.

[Gregory Peccary]

47. Just a tad shakier than......

..... Gorsuch

[DesertRat]

19. k&r

[AdamGG]

20. Is the process for impeaching a Supreme Court justice the same as for a President?

If the Democrats take the House and Senate, could they pursue perjury charges & impeach Kavanaugh? Would it require a majority of votes in the House and then 2/3 of the Senate to convict, like with the President?

[john657]

21. Yes, it's exactly the same.

The Impeachment is the easy part, it's the Senate that's the problem, even if the Dems regain control of the Senate, it still requires 67 Senators voting to convict and remove, and they're not going to get that many votes.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. depends on time

It depends on how long the investigations by the House take. The Senate might well be overwhelmingly D by the time those finish.

There were 79 hearings on "Obamacare" and 32 hearings on Benghazi. The Repugs spent 25 years going after Hillary Clinton. The Benghazi investigation took 28 months.

Given the seriousness of the question of fitness of a Supreme Court Justice, who is appointed for life, it might take a bit longer to investigate fully than a one-time attack on an embassy.

[Eyeball_Kid]

36. Remember that SC justices can be indicted

and prosecuted. Impeachment is not the only remedy.

[AdamGG]

39. But, it will be 2 1/2 years before there is a Justice Dept that would go after Kavanaugh

and investigate and possibly indict him for perjury

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Michael Moore is right. Should be a million Americans surrounding the White House

But that is just not in our collective hive mindset. We are entertained to death. We are worked to death. We are cocooned and isolated into a state of paralysis.

[appalachiablue]

23. Correct, sorry to say. Shut down the country over this nghtmare!!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

31. Sadly, we have stopped being a nation of do-ers

and become a nation of viewers.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. Perfect!

Can I use that?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

57. Be my guest.

[triron]

41. Not only for this but for trump to resign as well.

[spanone]

28. Yes.

[Permanut]

30. No reason to postpone..

The word "perjury" is not even mentioned in the Bible. So Jesus.

[keithbvadu2]

32. Right wingers whine that Kav is being picked on.

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[zentrum]

37. Just do it!

[flibbitygiblets]

42. K and R

[Nitram]

43. The Kavanaugh confirmation must not be allowed to proceed.

We found the smoking gun they were trying so hard to hide. I wonder how many others there are? It is clear that Kavanaugh was nominated for one reason only: to protect Trump from investigation and impeachment.

[Raster]

44. We found "A smoking gun"...

...KKKavanaugh* was part of the legal team of the Bush* dirty tricks gang... and we know just how freakin' dirty AND ILLEGAL the Bush* administration was.

Waterboard KKKavanaugh!!! Give him a taste of his own "enhanced interrogation" medicine!

[Nitram]

50. Now THAT'S something I'd pay to see.

[duforsure]

45. I suspect

There is enough known about him not publicly out yet that'll stop them from allowing it to continue, or it would really put themselves in a much worse situation down the road. His nomination is on life support with him becoming fully exposed. He's corrupt and a liar too . and he won't make it with the baggage he's carrying.

[red dog 1]

48. K&R

Another right-wing liar will be sitting on SCOTUS because the Repukes control both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

Thanks Comey!