Another problem with Kavanaugh
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thisfinecrewPursuant to rydra_wong's last post, for anyone who understandably finds it uncomfortable to talk about sexual assault with Republican senators' office staffers (or indeed Republicans and conservatives generally, or anyone in general), former Senator Russ Feingold, who served on the Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh's confirmation to his present position, has laid out the, AHEM, discrepancies between Kavanaugh's testimony then and information that's come out in the current proceedings and the extent to which that's an issue..
(I suspect I'm not alone in wanting Mr. Feingold to make the rounds of the news shows with this.)
rydra_wong's last post, for anyone who understandably finds it uncomfortable to talk about sexual assault with Republican senators' office staffers (or indeed Republicans and conservatives generally, or anyone in general), former Senator Russ Feingold, who served on the Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh's confirmation to his present position, has laid out the, AHEM, discrepancies between Kavanaugh's testimony then and information that's come out in the current proceedings and the extent to which that's an issue..(I suspect I'm not alone in wanting Mr. Feingold to make the rounds of the news shows with this.)
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Date: 2018-09-21 07:19 am (UTC)More links on non-sexual-assault-related problems with Kavanaugh, for anyone who'd like more/different ammunition:
Salon: I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About
NBC: David Brock I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.
Crooked Media: Brett Kavanaugh’s Disqualifying Bad Faith
NYT op-ed: Confirmed: Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Review Of Disability-Related Cases Involving Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network: ASAN Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee on Doe ex. rel. Tarlow v. District of Columbia -- this is absolutely killer
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Date: 2018-09-21 08:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-23 09:07 am (UTC)Mother Jones: The Many Mysteries of Brett Kavanaugh’s Finances
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Date: 2018-09-23 10:24 am (UTC)https://twitter.com/AdamBlickstein/status/1043509558163976192
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Date: 2018-09-23 07:58 pm (UTC)YUP. See also:
https://twitter.com/rtraister/status/1043133321323196416
"Good morning & welcome to another episode of I Genuinely Cannot Believe What Is Fucking Happening No One Would Ever Write An Actual Episode Of This Because It Is Too Implausibly On The Nose.
On today's show: the president weighs in and I might already be drinking."
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Date: 2018-09-26 06:22 pm (UTC)RIGHT
RIGHT
And also women! so untrustworthy and nasty. And if you are a foreign woman, forget about it, you are probably like that Mazie Hirono woman (OMFG, I love her, SO MUCH: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senator-mazie-hirono-is-the-moral-anchor-of-the-kavanaugh-hearings https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/mazie-hirono-kavanaugh-senate.html)
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Date: 2018-09-27 12:41 am (UTC)MAZIE HIRONO!!!! LIONESS OF THE SENATE, WE HEAR YOU ROAR! (Seriously, I remember right after McCain's death people were talking about how "the last lion of the Senate is gone" and now with Sen. Hirono, I am just like, "The lions are dead... LONG LIVE THE LIONESS!"
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Date: 2018-09-27 01:36 am (UTC)YES YES THAT'S AMAZING I remember seeing her come back from cancer treatment and voting so that people could have healthcare, and crying because she was just so fantastic.