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We continue to find more evidence that Judge Kavanaugh misled me and the Judiciary Committee under oath. Im posting important documents that Senate Republicans didnt want the American people to see. We deserve transparency about this nominee.
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In 2006, I asked Judge Kavanaugh about his role in the 4th Circuit nomination of Jim Haynes a key figure in crafting the Bush White House detention & interrogation policies. Under oath, he said, "IveI know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled.
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However, these emails from 2002 and 2003 show that then-Associate White House Counsel Brett Kavanaugh played a substantial role in the decision to nominate Haynes, including examining whether Haynes would be an across-the-board judicial conservative.
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It is clear now that not only did Judge Kavanaugh mislead me when it came to his involvement in the Bush Administrations detention and interrogation policies, but also regarding his role in the controversial Haynes nomination.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Corrupt Republican Congress
global1
(25,250 posts)posting the documentation that backs it up. However, it will be falling on deaf ears unless the Dems are able to get MSM to talk about this. Unfortunately, I don't see MSM picking up the ball and running with it.
As a result - what Durbin posted will just be buried on the website and no one will read it.
msongs
(67,407 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,347 posts)TV notices where the public goes -- eyeballs for advertisers.
That documentation is being presented where people see it and, if enough respond and talk about it, the MSM will go there.
spanone
(135,838 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)A judge who would perjure himself to get on the Court is the last person who needs to be there.
Putting aside his radical views (as bad as they are), a Supreme Court justice must, if nothing else, be honest.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,296 posts)He's a liar and he committed perjury. Call it what it is.
calimary
(81,283 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)*Now there's a term worth knitting pink socks for! (to go with the pink hat with ears)
zentrum
(9,865 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)He matches their serial liar in the White House. They have become a full-blown criminal enterprise.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)J3AC4
(58 posts)getagrip_already
(14,756 posts)The last trait you want in a judge is a gambling addiction running debt into multiuple 6 figures. It leaves him susceptible to bribery and blackmail.
Nobody would allow an umpire with huge gambling debts.