Kavanaugh hearings to begin Tuesday despite Trump scandals

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August 29, 2018 at 8:46 pm EDT | by Chris Johnson

Kavanaugh hearings to begin Tuesday despite Trump scandals

Despite objections to holding confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court amid the withholding of documents from his time at the Bush White House and mounting scandals facing President Trump, the Senate is nonetheless poised to begin its public questioning of the nominee next week.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with hearings — scheduled from Tuesday to Friday — as Republican leaders push to have a floor vote on his confirmation before Election Day — after which control of Congress could change.

LGBT groups and Democrats — who oppose Kavanaugh based on fears his confirmation would tilt the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction — are insisting the hearings be delayed until the Trump administration makes public the entirety of Kavanaugh’s records of his time during the George W. Bush administration, including when he served as staff secretary from 2003 to 2006 at the White House.

With Kavanaugh’s 12-year record as a circuit judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit scant on LGBT rulings, those Bush administration records may be more revealing on his work or thoughts on LGBT policy. After all, that was the time the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state anti-sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas decision and Bush was pushing a Federal Marriage Amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage nationwide. ... Additionally, the Bush administration was taking heat at this time for use of torture in interrogation of terrorist suspects, warrantless wiretapping and misleading the American public in motivations for the Iraq war.
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Chris Johnson is Chief Political & White House Reporter for the Washington Blade. Johnson attends the daily White House press briefings and is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association. Follow Chris https://twitter.com/chrisjohnson82

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1. Dems were warned about scotus

[beachbum bob]

2. Why would any one think the hearings would be postponed?

[BigmanPigman]

3. Barbara Boxer said she would stand on the floor and talk

and talk. If all the Dems talked for 12 hours each could they filibuster for 25 days?

The Dems MUST add more justices to the court, amend the constitution, to stop this fiasco from happening. The whole election and the laws passed by the GOP and rulings made by the court should be cancelled since the election was fraudulent.

The Dems should also get rid of the electoral college. I wish they would get tough!