Election year pressure keeps Democrats digging for new ways to block Kavanaugh
by Susan Ferrechio
| September 09, 2018 12:00 AM
Election year politics have pushed Senate Democrats to throw up every obstacle they can find in a likely futile effort to derail the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Now that the hearings are over, Senate Democrats, facing likely losses in the November midterm elections and hoping to excite their base, aren’t giving up.
After last week’s chaotic confirmation hearings, which were marked by protesters interrupting the proceedings with shouts until they were dragged out by police, Democrats said they’ll keep digging for ways to try to influence the outcome of the final Senate vote to confirm Kavanaugh, which is slated to take place in late September.
Republicans have a two-vote majority now that Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., has been sworn in to fill the seat vacated by the death of GOP Sen. John McCain.
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