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Judge Brett Kavanaugh's ability to be a impartial member of the Supreme Court has come under scrutiny after he emotionally accused Democrats of an "orchestrated political hit" against him and said the allegations of sexual misconduct are "revenge on behalf of the Clintons."
Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Friday morning said Kavanaugh's partisan attacks were "unbelievable."
"This was not someone who reflected an impartial temperament or the fairness and even handedness one would see in a judge," Feinstein said. "This was someone who was aggressive and belligerent. I have never seen someone who wants to be elevated to the highest court in our country behave in that manner."
"I can't imagine what this place would be -- I can't imagine what the country would be -- with Donald Trump as our president," Ginsburg told The New York Times in a July 2016 interview in her Supreme Court chambers. "For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be -- I don't even want to contemplate that." Ginsburg doubled down on those comments in a subsequent interview with CNN, calling Trump a "faker," and adding: ""He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego."
We already know what Ginsburg thinks of the president. She told us more than a year ago that she "can't imagine what the country would be . . . with Donald Trump as our president." Facing criticism for her apparent endorsement of Hillary Clinton and her attacks on Trump, Ginsburg doubled down, emphasizing in a CNN interview: "He is a faker." She then went on "point by point, as if presenting a legal brief," the CNN analyst said.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has decided to take a stand against a major party’s presidential candidate in a way that she—and arguably no prior justice—has ever done before. Over the course of several interviews, the justice has spent the last few days hammering Donald Trump for his reckless campaign and outrageous policies, suggesting that a President Trump would pose a serious danger to the republic. Her explicitly political statements set off a familiar firestorm about whether Ginsburg had “crossed the line,” sending the conservative blogosphere in particular into howling fantods. Critics on the left and right have criticized Ginsburg’s comments as explosive, unprecedented, and unethical.
originally posted by: JasonBillung
a reply to: Grambler
An angry drunk who his friends from college won't even defend is the last thing the US need on the supreme court.
Ruth may have problems. Agreed.
Why stack the bench with an alcoholic sexual predator to boot?
originally posted by: JasonBillung
a reply to: Grambler
An angry drunk who his friends from college won't even defend is the last thing the US need on the supreme court.
Ruth may have problems. Agreed.
Why stack the bench with an alcoholic sexual predator to boot?
Future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two fellow Yale University students were in an off-campus bar back in 1985. They had just come from seeing the English reggae band UB40 at a nearby venue in New Haven, Connecticut, when they saw a man who resembled the lead singer. The man told the trio he wasn’t the singer and brusquely told them to stop looking at him. Kavanaugh couldn’t let the comment pass, according to one of the two friends with Kavanaugh that night.
SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email In this article NYT NEW YORK TIMES-A 22.74USD-0.41-1.77% Future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two fellow Yale University students were in an off-campus bar back in 1985. They had just come from seeing the English reggae band UB40 at a nearby venue in New Haven, Connecticut, when they saw a man who resembled the lead singer. The man told the trio he wasn’t the singer and brusquely told them to stop looking at him. Kavanaugh couldn’t let the comment pass, according to one of the two friends with Kavanaugh that night. Kavanaugh first cursed at the man. After the man responded in kind, Kavanaugh threw a beer in his face, said Charles Ludington, a former Yale basketball player who’s now a history professor at North Carolina State University. The act precipitated a brawl that drew in their other friend -- Yale basketball star and future NBA player Chris Dudley -- and eventually prompted a call to police. Kavanaugh was frequently “belligerent and aggressive” after drinking and had lied to senators about his experience with alcohol, Ludington said in a statement released to the news media Sunday. The barroom fisticuffs were the most searing example of Kavanaugh’s behavior he remembers, Ludington said in an interview with Bloomberg News, where he expanded on his statement for the first time.
“It was sort of a general feature of hanging out with Brett in college,” he said in an interview. “When you’re having beers on a Friday or Saturday night, that was kind of Brett’s shtick. He was aggressive. He was belligerent.” Related: Kavanaugh to Get Senate Vote This Week, Majority Leader Says The White House had no immediate comment when asked about Ludington’s account, instead referring a reporter to statements issued earlier by Dudley and another classmate attesting to Kavanaugh’s character.
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: JasonBillung
Well you have certainly blown my argument that hundreds of people say otherwise about him.
By the way, I'm pretty sure you diddled me when I was thirteen and you got me drunk and then beat me.
BRB... I have a Twitter post to make!
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JasonBillung
a reply to: Grambler
An angry drunk who his friends from college won't even defend is the last thing the US need on the supreme court.
Ruth may have problems. Agreed.
Why stack the bench with an alcoholic sexual predator to boot?
To the OP, what I found funny is a comment by one of the Democratic jackwheels complaining that BK is going to be biased as a result of what he has gone through in the confirmation process.
Um.. perhaps you should not have put him through it then?
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JasonBillung
a reply to: Grambler
An angry drunk who his friends from college won't even defend is the last thing the US need on the supreme court.
Ruth may have problems. Agreed.
Why stack the bench with an alcoholic sexual predator to boot?
To the OP, what I found funny is a comment by one of the Democratic jackwheels complaining that BK is going to be biased as a result of what he has gone through in the confirmation process.
Um.. perhaps you should not have put him through it then?
As I've said since Dims started hurting Kavanaugh's family, if he is confirmed, Democrats will suffer BIGLY. If it's a "cause" that is high on the Democrats priority list, it will take a major hit. Thomas and Kavanaugh will see to it!
Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court is mired in allegations of drunken behavior and sexual misconduct following a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week in which a California college professor, Christine Blasey Ford, testified that he assaulted her while drunk when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh denies the assault, but acknowledged drinking beer as a youth. Democrats have raised questions about his temperament and whether he was truthful about the extent of his alcohol use.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JasonBillung
a reply to: Grambler
An angry drunk who his friends from college won't even defend is the last thing the US need on the supreme court.
Ruth may have problems. Agreed.
Why stack the bench with an alcoholic sexual predator to boot?
To the OP, what I found funny is a comment by one of the Democratic jackwheels complaining that BK is going to be biased as a result of what he has gone through in the confirmation process.
Um.. perhaps you should not have put him through it then?
As I've said since Dims started hurting Kavanaugh's family, if he is confirmed, Democrats will suffer BIGLY. If it's a "cause" that is high on the Democrats priority list, it will take a major hit. Thomas and Kavanaugh will see to it!
Except that's not really what we want. We do want a fair judge.
With questions about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking habits surfacing in the investigation of sexual assault allegations against him, a college friend has described him as a “belligerent and aggressive” drinker who once started a fight that led to the jailing of a mutual friend. Charles Ludington, who knew Kavanaugh at Yale University, told The Washington Post Sunday that he plans to give the FBI a statement on the matter, and he provided a copy of the statement to the paper.