So on Friday when Kavanaugh is voted onto the Supreme Court....

[Kablooie]

I hope indictments soon follow.

Roberts will be pleased as punch for his newest freshman judge to be fighting sex crime lawsuits in public all the time.

( I think he will get the votes because putting an extremist conservative on the court for decades is much more useful for their ideology than winning the house and senate for one more term.)

[grantcart]

1. Friday is only the committee vote

And it was only listed for Friday to save the 3 day waiting period.

May or may not vote on Friday

[bettyellen]

2. Yep, the senate vote is the real shit. That's some days away.

I read somewhere they can send it to the senate even if the committee says no... but I’m not sure they want to.

[brewens]

3. I was wondering if they were forcing a guy through that might end up being

impeached and removed? Wouldn't that be sweet, if it was a Democrat President replacing him!

[still_one]

4. He won't be impeached, the votes aren't there for that if he gets in, but depending how things go

tomorrow, there is still a real chance he won't have the votes in the Senate

Either way I think the republicans will face the consequences of their actions in the midterms

[mythology]

6. If he gets indicted for rape/sexual assault, I suspect he'd be impeached

[avebury]

7. Knowing the Rethugs, Kavanaugh would actually

have to be convicted before they would consider impeaching him.

[Hortensis]

5. A.B. Stoddard was saying on 11th Hour tonight that Kavanaugh

has a big group of friends and supporters in DC and he's the "most beloved nominee up for anything" she's ever seen. They reportedly believe him to be a man of deep integrity and have decided this is all a smear campaign. (!)

Seriously, it sounds like they're as deluded and as all-in true believer types as the remnant 24% of registered voters in the Republican Party.

The thing is, Stoddard says they believe getting him on the court is worth a "blood bath in the midterms." Hard to believe, but they've decided having him on the court would absolutely be worth losing the house AND even potentially the senate.

Bizarre. What could he do that another judicial extremist from the Heritage Society list could not, keeping the senate at least? And, of course, there is a possibility that criminal charges could follow him onto the court, but for sure ongoing scandal would.

I'm hoping that more sensible minds fail in the face of this conviction. But I think we can assume Kavanaugh is not beloved of McConnell.