Judge rejects Dem's bid to delay Kavanaugh vote

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 By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, October 5, 2018

Sen. Jeff Merkley lost his bid to delay the Senate’s final vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a federal judge ruled Friday that he had waited too long to sue.

Mr. Merkley had sued last week claiming that the president and Senate Republicans were violating the Constitution by denying him the chance to properly give vet Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination.

He said the Constitution tasks senators with giving “advice and consent” on presidential picks, and he’s unable to carry that duty out without seeing more documents from the judge’s past.

Then as a vote neared this week, Mr. Merkley went back to the court asking to speed up a decision, saying that an order from a judge could pressure the Senate to slow down.

But Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Mr. Merkley should have acted weeks ago, once it became clear the documents wouldn’t be turned over.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/5/judge-rejects-dems-bid-delay-kavanaugh-vote/

[Free Vulcan]

And she ruled that Mr. Merkley’s request was beyond the court’s powers anyway.

Thank you Judge, for the right answer that so many of your profession forget.

[Frank Cannon]

This idiots case should have been thrown out because he has no standing.