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Title: Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I (Pat Leahy) cannot support his nomination.
Post by: Wingnut on September 14, 2018, 12:18:26 am

Patrick Leaky, Democrat, represents what is wrong with Senate Rats in this oped.

Last week, I uncovered new evidence that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh misled the Senate during his earlier hearings for the D.C. Circuit Court by minimizing and even denying his involvement in Bush-era controversies. I gave him the opportunity to correct his testimony at his hearing last week; he chose instead to double down.

I make no claim that Kavanaugh is a bad person. But when his prior confirmation to our nation’s “second highest court” was in jeopardy, he repeatedly misled the Senate when the truth might have placed that job out of reach.

Take his relationship with the ringleader of the “Memogate” scandal. Between 2001 and 2003, two Republican staffers regularly gained unauthorized access to the private computer files of six Democratic senators, including mine, taking 4,670 files on controversial judicial nominees.

Kavanaugh was asked more than 100 times about this scandal in 2004 and 2006. He testified repeatedly that he knew nothing about the source of the information; that he received nothing that even appeared to be prepared by Democratic staff; and that he never suspected anything unusual, or “untoward.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/brett-kavanaugh-misled-the-senate-under-oath-i-cannot-support-his-nomination/2018/09/13/ea75c740-b77d-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html?utm_term=.c91e1480826b (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/brett-kavanaugh-misled-the-senate-under-oath-i-cannot-support-his-nomination/2018/09/13/ea75c740-b77d-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html?utm_term=.c91e1480826b)

Title: Re: Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I (Pat Leahy) cannot support his nomination.
Post by: RetBobbyMI on September 14, 2018, 12:24:08 am

Were was he when the Pakistani Awan bros had the run on Congressional computers?

Title: Re: Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I (Pat Leahy) cannot support his nomination.
Post by: Sanguine on September 14, 2018, 12:31:41 am

So don't.

Title: Re: Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I (Pat Leahy) cannot support his nomination.
Post by: goatprairie on September 14, 2018, 02:09:44 am

It is virtually certain that a candidate nominated by president Hillary Clinton with the exact same record as Kavanaugh would be eagerly passed by Leahy.
He, Leahy, is nothing more than a disgusting, hypocritical, brain-addled Dem senator whose career as a jackass senator
 has long since passed expiration date.