Trump And The Republicans Are Trying To Destroy The Credibility Of The Supreme Court
I know there have been a lot of articles on NT about Kavanaugh , and the accusations against him, but I am going to add at least one more.
What we are facing , due to the way the Republicans and Trump have misused the Supreme Court nominating process is a potential extreme crisis concerning the highest court in the land.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed without a serious and prolonged investigation into the accusations against him, here is what will happen. When the Democrats retake the House and the Senate, which could be as early as January of next year, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be impeached. What will also happen fairly soon will be an effort to restructure the Supreme Court so that there will no longer be nine justices, there will be eleven. This could occur when the Democrats have control of the congress and the presidency, and the Democrat president would appoint two "liberals" to the SC, and the Democratic Senate would confirm them.
Those who want to push Kavanaugh through like his hair is on fire should stop and think. Your leader is Trump, whose time in office is dwindling down, and you are about to vote in someone that will be impeached, and then the makeup of the court will be restructured. That is where you are leading this country.
Does Trump give a shit if he destroys the credibility of the Supreme Court by placing an unvetted individual on that court? What do you think? He only cares about things that effect his image of himself. To him, placing right wingers on the court is all that matters, because he has sycophants and worshipers who will praise him for having done so. He doesn't actually care about the Supreme Court, he cares on how the news of the day or the minute makes him look.
I will give you two examples of why the process of Kavanaugh's nomination needs to be stopped now.
First, Fox News Martha McCallum asked Kavanaugh the other day if he had ever witnessed sexual misconduct toward any girls at any of the parties he attended in high school.
Today, a specific allegation was made that Kavanaugh had been present at the gang rape of a girl. The new allegation directly calls into question if Kavanaugh had lied to Fox News (and the American people).
Second, the new allegation connects Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge to a "gang rape", at least as spectators. Corroborating this, in the New Yorker article the other day, a former girlfriend of Judge specifically says that Judge confessed to her the guilt he had felt over the "gang rape" of a girl that had occurred in high school.
These allegations, and the direct challenge they pose to Kavanaugh's descriptions , are more than enough to require a halt to this confirmation. The FBI can launch a full investigation and then we can go from there.
To put Kavanaugh on the court without a full and complete investigation will only be postponing the day of reckoning and place that day of reckoning within the halls of the Supreme Court itself. trump doesn't give a shit, but everyone else should.
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Kavanaugh directly told Martha Mccallum of Fox news, the other day, that he had never witnessed sexual misconduct directed at girls at any of the parties he attended in high school. In fact I think he called the suggestion outrageous.
Now his statement to Fox News has been called DIRECTLY into question. He is being called a liar, so to speak.
The nomination has to be put on hold or there will be hell to pay.
In fact the transcript of his prepared response to Ford's allegations pretty much directly undermines all his previous claims. It's amazing that they're trying to push this sleazeball through without an adequate FBI investigation which includes all the victims and relevant witnesses (at the very least). Mark Judge in particular needs to be subpoenaed.
That's what happens when you nominate an extremist rather than a moderate. But Kavanaugh doesn't need any Dem votes does he?
The real question is how many Republicans will be too embarrassed to vote for the rapist?
None will vote for a rapist because there is no rapist to vote for or against . An appeals court judge's elevation to the highest court in the land is .
Before Kavanaugh was even nominated.
President Trump and Judge Kavanaugh do not need help doing anything to ruin the Supreme Court. The progressive liberal left has already done a good enough job of that themselves.
Supreme Court lost its credibility when it 'flossed through' Citizens United. From that point, the court became Corporate.
This 'sexual stuff?' Well, expect less and receive even less.
I think it's clear that any damage to the SCOTUS is purely of Democratic origins. Party over nation, right liberals?
Nope. Once the GOP refused to even give Garland a hearing that was it for the integrity of the SCOTUS. The entire process for nominating a justice is an exercise in little more than partisan politics, which also means that the SCOTUS itself will quickly become a purely partisan body and thus incapable of doing its job.
Extreme good luck comes to mind .
We're already there. The SCOTUS is an extension of whatever party of the majority of justices lean towards.
They are no longer effective and cannot be trusted.
The Garland nomination set the stage, McFuckhead was the architect of that. The SCOTUS is now entirely fucked thanks to that turtle looking piece of shit moocher. Now every single nomination is unquestioningly political, as I said, little more than an exercise in partisan politics.
I still held out hope, but after Garland the writing was on the wall, I now have virtually no faith in any of the 3 branches of government.
Oh, my. I've never seen you use that word before. You must really be upset. What is it you like to "say:" SMMFH?
If by "clear" you mean as the effluent of the septic tank (or whatever rightwing pukefunnel you use for your "information").
What about the two men who have admitted the assault on Dr. Ford?
I hear that Trump's investigators found some Very Interesting Stuff about Obama's birth certificate, and that there's a Democratic pedophile ring which operates out of the basement of a DC pizza parlor which lacks a basement. Some folks are just gullible I guess and they all seem to be right wingers.
Even Republicans immediately rejected those crackpots (or were they plants?).
I don't like posting on this site anymore because I feel it clearly is a hot bed for the protected far right but I'm here to support a friend who cannot be here himself (at least for another day - hahahahaha).
So, in my effort to be a good friend, no matter how painful this is, I've resurfaced for a short time.
The Supreme Court is nothing more than an extension of whichever political party it has the majority of leaning justices from.
It cannot be viewed as an unbiased entity since it tainted itself by breaking protocol and calling the last President a liar. It has further been tainted by RBG's comments about Donald Trump.
We can no longer look to the SCOTUS for objective and thoughtful guidance. They are nothing more then hacks with agendas.
These should be term appointments.
That might be something of a solution, but I would say it's a poor one.
The whole idea behind finding a SCJ is that we are striving to find a person of incredible integrity, who is extremely fair minded and will interpret the law without any bias. If we put in people who are truly qualified for and deserving of the position, Supreme Court Justice can and should be a lifetime appointment.
Participating only in an exercise of protest:
Yes, that was the hope and the objective but those days are gone. The country has been moving away from our principals for a long time. The election of this President show that we have lost our moral compass. The days of integrity and fair unbiased thought managers is gone. Each side has dug in their heels. The only thing left is suffering through the terms and praying the civil rights you hold dear are not completely and utterly destroyed and taken away.
We are inching closer and closer to a civil war.
I guess I would prefer to start inching back to the time when we could elect fair minded SCJs, rather than continuing down that road.
Lenny - You don't have to look far to see that civility is gone. You see it on this forum every single day. There are no unbias people living in America. They've all been bought by power and money.
You are too pessimistic. I think the tide may be changing right now with this fight over Kavanaugh. The Trump horror show has sent a strong message to decent people all across the country: VOTE.
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I'm a realist. How does anyone with any level of intelligence not become a pessimist when we see over and over the blind devotion to the idiocy of the President and his Administration.
The Shadow of The Deceiver is long. Avert your eyes and shun the ground of His approach.
I have no idea how you come up with your statistics unless you are counting on silencing any SCJ who doesn't lean severely to the fanatical right.
The Washington Post you say. Aren't they fake news? You better go check with Fox or Mr. Trump. You may have just lost your Trumpy card.
That's easy - I'm a girl. We're masters at getting guys to go the extra mile with very little effort.
Weakening the central government and giving more power to the states will exacerbate our differences, obviously. That's just common sense Fishy.
as the founders intended. so it shall be.
I'm thinking we can embrace our differences or at least tolerate them.
an overbearing central government is intolerable, will only lead to civil war, and an even more decentralized government in the end.
local government governs best because they know and live in the communities they govern and are the easiest to kick out of office when they piss us off. ( civics 101 )
cheers
My work here is done. Ciao
Trump And The Republicans Are Trying To Destroy The Credibility Of The Supreme Court
Sorry John, the Citizens United ruling took care of that.
They are trying to destroy everything, they don't care. They have openly declared that the only thing that matters is money.
So based on that, only corporations, only millionaires and billionaires who are Republican or who donate to Republicans matter.
They don't care if America is ruled by a demented dictator who openly says he is 'in Love with Kim Jong Un".
Remember all the right wing outrage over Otto Warmbier? How does that family feel now hearing those words from Trump?
Right wingers fail to recognize that Trump for all his BS talk, he is not religious and he is no true Christian. Trump isn't even a decent parent, he uses taxpayer money to golf every weekend enriching himself and his family at one of his properties all on the taxpayer dime and all because his brainwashed followers are not even bothering to look at the trillions in deficit Republicans and Trump are racking up daily.
"Trump And The Republicans Are Trying To Destroy The Credibility Of The Supreme Court"
How ?