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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:20AM (7 children)
> they just wanted to create some hot-button issue to camouflage
Have you considered maybe they truly believed he is not trustworthy, based on evidence?
I know, Occam's in politics, but still.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:02AM
Then why did they not pursue proving perjury with the fervor they had for the alleged and likely unprovable sexual crimes?
Sexual crimes got a day-long hearing. Perjury did not.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:40AM (5 children)
Yes and I reject the assertion. Democrats didn't bitch about his hard-right positions -- they dredged up some unprovable/undisprovable allegation to dominate the airways and deflect from issues.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bussdriver on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:28AM (4 children)
Yes they did! The MEDIA didn't give much coverage over the serious complaints; and the GOP kept everything they could secret and shortened the time to make the whole thing a sham. They had time to do it properly and they didn't at every turn. So LITTLE time to point out major problems and cite anything was given! Only when this minor problem exploding into a political nightmare got media/public traction did things have to slow down a little bit ONLY to deal with that issue.
Yes, I'm saying it is a minor issue because it's not provable and a political shit storm which might have been averted if the process worked the way it was supposed to in the first place. Now we can expect that Trump would have quietly had the guy withdraw to avoid it had the thing been known; but how can anybody reasonably expect Trump to let the man withdraw or that he even would respect the system/process like many patriots do when they resign from things rather than fight them. (not all are guilty when they do it. cabinet members for example.) If you actually investigated it maybe it would become something beyond a minor problem. He should have been rejected BEFORE the dirty issues became public.
I'm not one to hold somebody's stupid youth against them but this guy didn't show any signs of growing up. Hell, he didn't even show signs of average mental health under pressure.
The USA is dying. All this stuff is just symptoms; expect worse as democracy goes full circle. (Despotism is how all democracy ends; Franklin was right.)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:47PM
The only policy issue I saw complaints about were "OMG, he's going to overturn Roe v Wade!", which certainly got plenty of MSM airtime.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:52PM
They got a whole day-long hearing for allegations of a 36-year old sexual assault that did not even investigate his position on Roe v. Wade. The content in the New York Times and Washington Post in particular is controlled by the same elites that control the Democratic Party. There is no amount of apologetics that can save them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:19PM (1 child)
Franklin? Plato! And who's Franklin?
(Score: 1) by bussdriver on Sunday October 14 2018, @06:49PM
Ben Franklin. The most famous and significant founder of the USA; he was even offered the 1st presidency. Look at this full speech which ended the constitutional convention.