Kavanaugh's path to the Supreme Court: The fix is on [View all]
An American land speed record was set overnight on Tuesday -- not on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah but in corridors of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C.
Strategists behind Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court made a 42,390-page "document dump" late on Monday afternoon, on the eve of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on nomination of appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Immediately, Senate Democrats asked for time to study what was disclosed, and what key records of Kavanaugh's service in the George W. Bush White House were still being withheld.
They were thwarted.
"Majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages," Senate Republicans claimed in a Tweet early Tuesday. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, repeated the ludicrous claim.
The 42,390 pages are deemed "Committee Confidential," meaning the public may never see them. Democrats will be circumscribed in how much they can use the material in questioning nominee Kavanaugh.
The fix is on for Kavanaugh.
The nomination to life appointment on the high court is being rushed through, by the same Senate Republicans who refused even to hold a hearing on President Obama's 2016 nomination of fellow appellate judge Merrick Garland to the high court.
The Senate Republicans are using Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is using acquiescent members of his party.
The GOP gets to lock in a Supreme Court majority that will rule for its interests and uphold rule by the privileged.
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