Flake wants delay for one week for further investigation.

in kavanaugh •  6 years ago 


I think we reached preponderance of the evidence, at least for what the committee bothered to admit. I say this because Ford’s testimony was credible and Kavanaugh’s was obviously and frequently preposterous. He was simply a much less credible witness.

I don’t think Kavanaugh fooled anyone about his general conduct as a teenager, and he would have done much better to own up to it and say he’d become a better person in the meantime. This is an honourable course of action that has been repeatedly followed successfully by people of both parties in the past. A good society makes room for mercy and for personal improvement.

The fact that he didn’t do this, or that he couldn’t, makes him much less sympathetic to me. I mean... come on. Of course he drank excessively. Of course he was sexually demeaning to Renate. I wasn’t born yesterday, and neither were you. I have trouble even imagining the person naive enough to believe him on these matters.

That said, I still think doubts are very reasonable about whether the specific assault occurred as it was described. I would not convict on a charge like that, and I would feel insulted as a juror if this were all I had to go on.

What's the new normal after this? It could actually be somewhat better in terms of how we experience it from the sidelines.

It seems to me that part of the reason there's so much contention now is simply because of the pretence that the Supreme Court is apolitical. It's not, and it never has been, apolitical. But we have cherished the illusion that it was, and we have gotten increasingly angry as the illusion has dissolved.

But when that illusion is gone for good, confirmation hearings may become a formality. Vacancies will be filled only when the President and the Senate are of the same party. And all votes will be foregone conclusions.

Is this better or worse than how things were before? I don't know, but it's almost certainly a lot less contentious.

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Seriously, this whole fiasco is such an embarrassment. This mess is another nail in the coffin for the democratic party.

He lied under oath repeatedly, lock him the fuck up. He shouldn't be on the court at all, even without any of these circus acts over the last few weeks, but this just confirms that he is not an honest or credible individual in any fashion. Grotesque human being.

How did he lie? How do you know for sure that he lied? Don't jump to conclusions because of your biases.

lol, he lied about Ford's friend, he said "she said it didn't happen", and her statement verbatim was "I don't remember it but I believe Ford".

He lied about the devils triangle, boofing, he lied about his drinking habits, his old roommate said he was a heavy drinker, he lied about blacking out, he lied about the rapes, he lied about other smaller things too.

Literally watched the entire testimony, dude. Stop being cringe.

I watched both testimonies, of course anything is possible. I just don't see the judge a sex predator when he was a teenager and then it stopped. I heard a lot of inconsistencies in Dr Fords. Great post!

Dr Ford's testimony had so many inconsistencies, such as when everything happened. Also, the ppl she said was there all denied the incident.

CNN....lol

So you are just going to ignore heaps of factual evidence because you don't like the host? It's not an opinion piece, it's just pure fact.