Showing posts with label Brett Kavanaugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brett Kavanaugh. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2018

FBI's Kavanaugh White-wash Report is In

The FBI has completed their 3-day "investigation" into allegations surrounding Trump's Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and it looks like they picked just enough Brett-friendly witnesses to make sure all the Republicans in the Senate can vote for him without too much blow-back.

So, the results will likely be 1. a corporatist, butthurt, lying, drunken, frat-boy jock will be the next Supreme Court Justice and 2. you will never ever ever see those FBI documents Trump promised to release surrounding SpyGate. Ever.

Can we please stop pretending Trump is fighting the Deep State now?




Kavanaugh awaits fate as senators read FBI report

from CNN

It's judgment day for Brett Kavanaugh and the three crucial Republicans who could send him to the Supreme Court or doom his hopes of being the swing vote who could change America.

Kavanaugh's fate will be on the line for the second straight Thursday, as senators begin reading the results of the supplemental background check compiled by the FBI a week after Christine Blasey Ford accused the nominee of sexual assault in the most politically charged hearing in decades.
 
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley confirmed Thursday morning that the committee received the supplemental background check.
 
"Supplemental FBI background file for Judge Kavanaugh has been received by @senjudiciary Ranking Member Feinstein & I have agreed to alternating EQUAL access for senators to study content from additional background info gathered by non-partisan FBI agents," he tweeted. 
 
Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile set in motion a process designed to lead to a procedural vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Friday, that would possibly lead to a final vote as early as the following day...

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Friday, September 28, 2018

The Kavanaugh Bargain


Now that they have brought the glorious FBI into the equation, you have to ask yourself if there might be some kind of negotiation taking place behind the scenes which revolves around the Carter Page FISA court application and all those Comey, McCabe and Strzok emails Trump wanted released.

After all, the Anita Hill testimony ended in "compromise" so why not Dr. Ford's?