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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.
Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:40PM (3 children)
The Capital is a public building. Anyone can walk in (after scanning to make sure you're not hiding a gun or knife or other weapons). I don't know if any of the protesters inside the building were carrying signs or just screaming, but if signs aren't on the list of prohibited items, oh well. There are areas that only Senators and Representatives (and their staff) can enter, of course, but the building supposedly belongs to the American citizens, so we should be able to enter it.
If you ever get the chance to go see it, I suggest you do so. I had the chance about 25 years ago, and while the tour at the time was just so-so, wandering around the building by myself after the tour was well worth it to see all the wonderful architecture, statues, and paintings. I got to sit in the gallery of the House side for a bit; the chamber is a lot smaller than it looks on the CSPAN cameras.
I remember thinking how sad it was that it was almost sure to be all burned to the ground some day. At the time, I thought I was referring to probable events long after my lifetime; these days I'm not so sure about that part anymore...
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday October 07 2018, @04:05PM (2 children)
So what lets them stand around for hours yelling at people? If they were promptly arrested and charged on a disorderly conduct and in many of these cases assault would be appropriate, and locked in the D.C. jail for a month and then put on a year parole, barred from entering any major public building (except for official business such as their parole officer) while on parole and given a hefty fine big enough George Soros would notice it in his operating budget for these organizations, it would stop. Then after a few dozen arrests roll up the organizations with RICO. In short stop playing this game.
We know it only works one way, if the Right tried anything approximating these tactics they would find themselves in prison for years. The Left gets away with it because they control the D.C. mayor and police force. Congress should threaten to end home rule unless the local police start doing their damned job.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @11:45PM (1 child)
The Congress has its own police force. [wikipedia.org] Next time, do your own damn homework before spouting off (again!) like that.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday October 08 2018, @07:07PM
Ok, you are correct. Cue the South Parks clip of the kids saying "This part is pretty f*cked up right here."
So Congress has exclusive jurisdiction over the District. (The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17) but they delegated most of it to a local government with "home rule" but then to keep their own asses safe from the incompetent crackheads the local diversity would be permitted to live under they kept the already existing entirely different police force that has "concurrent jurisdiction" with the D.C. P.D. Then it looks like the Park Service also has concurrent jurisdiction over other parts (most of the tourist attractions) of the District. Bet the jurisdiction arguments get fun.
So why the Hell do they put up with shouting morons in their own halls? It makes no sense.