Your theory falls apart where they attempt to tell Trump to do something that negatively affects his future freedom.

They're never successfully impeaching Kavanaugh over the perjury. You're just never getting any Republicans behind that and never getting to 67 Dem Senators.

The GOP thinks that because nobody is putting them in jail right now they are getting away with it all.

Grunch it’s bad but.. this guys going to get in. Sorry.

All helps a tiny bit in breaking the myth that the usa system is fit for purpose, let alone awesome. That's part of the long path to desperately needed reform.

For the rest of the world it helps us battle those who want to import american ways.

Zina Bash moved her hand — and the #Resistance saw a white power symbol. Then she did it again.

Zina Bash, who worked in the Trump White House as a special assistant on regulatory reform and legal and immigration policy, works as a senior counsel for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

nothing says "not a white supremacist" like working for the trump white house as a special assistant on immigration policy

well her husband told on her when he penned his whiny little twitter rant. in his feigned indignance, he said he and his wife both had never seen or heard of that symbol before, so clearly they knew what it was after all the twitter backlash, one day before she WENT OUT AND DID IT AGAIN.

What are the odds of the current body of judges beginning impeachment proceedings against Kavanaugh before the Senate votes to confirm?

lol at Keed popping in only to make knee-jerk complaints about the woman of color talking meanly to the nice carpool dad.

A lot of people would love to know what form of representative democracy is going to come out looking good in a country where a party as nakedly corrupt and evil as the GOP has been for 25+ years can still win or even come close to winning nationwide. If you mean specific things like FPTP voting and gerrymandering instead of proportional representation, sure, those suck and made it worse, but who's seriously trying to import that?

Kavanaugh all but promising not to eat faces. Look, even, at all the schoolgirl sportsball players whose faces he has not eaten. Rest easy

Clovis is vindicated

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.0fe55813c299

Man his answer that he thought Democrats and Republicans were so buddy buddy that he didn't even bother to ask his friend how he got stolen Democratic emails doesn't even pass the smell test.

Mouthed the word, "glass"? Looked like what was going to be a fake yawn to me.

If Collins was up for election this year this pressure on her would probably mean something, unfortunately this will all be forgotten by 2020

I read a story about her being sent over 3,000 hangers. Plus there is a pac that will automatically donate to her opponent if she votes to confirm Kavanaugh and it's like 750k

She needs to go regardless of how she votes. **** her. Every important vote should not rest on 4-5 weeks of trying to convince a "moderate" GOPer to do the right thing.

Just callin balls & strikes

Don't forget your ball

I'm assuming this guy got dragged and roasted for some terrible opinions?

Something along those lines

(For you who don't know, he's the "BOOM!" guy from Twitter, bff with Comey etc)

lol hahaha boom indeed

Info from Maddow that I didn't know, although maybe lots of you did: Murkowski was previously primaried from the right, and lost the R nom. She had to run as a write-in, and would have lost if not for the support of native Alaskans, who she told "I will fight for you as long as I am able."

Anchorage Daily News and Alaskan websites do indicate that native Alaskans are putting pressure on Murkowski to reject Kavanaugh, not only due to his record against minority rights and personal comments disparaging minority programs, but due to a specific local issue, the case of Surgeon vs Frost. This case will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in November, and could end up terminating native Alaskan subsistence fishing rights, which is a big issue for them.

A recent poll from Harstad Strategies (538 B+) of Alaskans in general shows that:

63% of Alaskans disagree (vs 31% agree) with Kavanaugh's position that Presidents should not be subject to civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, or criminal investigations while in office.

73% of Alaskans think it is extremely or very important (vs 16% somewhat or not important) that the next Supreme Court Justice be independent of Trump’s influence and committed to holding him accountable.

65% of Alaskans want to uphold Roe vs Wade (vs 22% want to overturn it).

Initially 44% of Alaskans favored Kavanaugh's confirmation vs 42% opposed it.

After being given more information on some of Kavanaugh's likely positions (biased info?), only 39% favored Kavanaugh's confirmation vs 54% opposed it.

Then asked, if Murkowski voted against Kavanaugh, how they would feel about Murkowski, 43% said more favorable, 27% said less favorable, and 27% said no change.

https://www.acluak.org/sites/default..._aug_28_tc.pdf

Given all of this, Murkowski may or may not vote for Kavanaugh, but there appears to at least be some hope that she will not.


Meanwhile, Collins said on Friday that she was not aware of the controversy regarding whether Kavanaugh lied under oath during his 2004 confirmation, but said that she would examine the issue this weekend and "if in fact (Kavanaugh) was not truthful, then obviously that would be a major problem for me."

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/09/...court-nominee/

I will fall off my log backwards if Kavanaugh is not confirmed, or later removed from the SCOTUS, on grounds of perjury.

I guess the former is possible, albeit an enormous longshot. The latter strikes me as not possible.

From the confirmation hearing.

Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono: Do you think Rice v. Cayetano raises constitutional questions when Congress passes laws to benefit Native Hawaiians?

Kavanaugh: I think Congress' power, with respect to an issue like that, is substantial. I don't want to pre-commit to any particular program, but I understand that Congress has substantial power with respect to declaring, recognizing tribes.

Hirono: But you believe that any of these kinds of programs or laws passed by Congress should undergo strict scrutiny and raises constitutional questions?

Kavanaugh: As I sit here today as a judge, I would listen to arguments 16 years ago ... but if I were a judge, I would listen to the arguments to your question, Congress has substantial power with respect to programs like this. I appreciate what you've said about Native Hawaiians ...

Kavanaugh: I think Congress has substantial power of course in this area that you're discussing and I would want to hear more about how Rice applies. I would want to hear the arguments on both sides. I would keep an open mind and appreciate your perspective on this question. ...

Hirono: I think you have a problem here. Your view is that Hawaiians don't deserve protections as indigenous people under the constitution and your argument raises a serious question on how you would vote on the constitutionality of programs benefiting Alaska natives. I think that my colleagues from Alaska should be deeply troubled by your views.