These extreme right wing fanatics are groomed by the Federalists and Heritage groups for higher positions. The entire situation is crooked as a dogs hind leg. They used their influence to get them appointments and pave the way.

Love that one.

great minds................russian oligarchs.

Notice that the Russian regime was quite glad with tRumps choice of SC nominee. Yea, sure no collusion

He found that republicans were corrupt, so he focused his efforts on that party. My guess is the reason why he so hated President Obama is the President slowed down his scheme.

The gambling, the over $200k in debt that was mysteriously paid off, the $90,000 in country club fees, other things that he purchased that were way beyond his means - private schools, etc.

We should have gone with his finances over his slimy behavior in prep school in college. It would have been much easier to nail him on that.

We have to have disclosure of financials for political appointees and elected officials. The highest ones - the
elected office holders, cabinet secretaries, and supreme court justices - have to be public and complete. We can
discuss lower ranking appointees, the depth of disclosure, and various corner cases, but that should be the principle. Medical
including cognitive testing too. Cannot take office without it. Ideally, cannot get on the ballot or
be submitted for congressional approval before these disclosures are complete.

There should be no principle of privacy for these office holders.

You can be as big a degenerate and thief after your term is up as you can get away with, of course.

that we all want to know the answers to

and the gambling debts? and the golf course fees?

Comon, who was funding this asshole? Russia? the NRA?

When you purchase a home you need to declare where the down payment comes from right? what was his answer?

Definitely a head-scratcher.

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I don't know how rich his parents are, but they were both working professionals even though they may be retired now. It's possible that Dad made some good investments that paid off, and gave the down payment to Brett and Ashley. It still doesn't explain how they can keep up with the monthly mortgage payments though.

Instead, he dodged, evaded and gave bullshit answers when questioned about it during the hearings.

we had to provide a letter signed by both them and my husband and I stating that the $2K was a gift and would not need to be paid back.

(Of course MIL did it just for the realtor. Didn't even let us know that it was a loan, not a gift. Showed up at our house a couple months after settlement with a surprise promissory note for us to sign charging us principal plus 10% interest). Not a lot now, but when hubby and I were both bringing home $10/K each per year, it was rough.

Are you still married?

Early on, hubby and I made a pact with each other that we would never let her come between us after we caught on that she would lie to us and try to pit us against each other when she talked to us. They moved down to FL about 10 yrs ago so we see them about 2-3x/yr now instead of weekly.

And need I say -- they are Fundy evangelical Trump voters.

I doubt I could have dealt with that kind of MIL.

MIDTERMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not defending Kavanaugh by any stretch, but assuming his federal salary is his only income is rather short-sighted.

It's sketchy but in 2003 mortgages were the wild, wild west of banking.

He probably bought the house with no money down and a 5 year interest only arm which would have kept payments very low. By the time the arm expired he was a federal judge making over $200k per year. He probably refied with a pretty good interest rate and an affordable payment. Remember, at the height of the financial crisis, everyone was refinancing. Rates were low. And by that point he could afford the higher payment.

As to the other debt he was able to clear, did it get paid off or did he refinance the home to consolidate his debt? Seems like a lot of debt to clear but maybe he drinks cheap beer and they drive old cars...Or maybe they have a Russian speaking nanny.

Still fishy.

I'm not sure whether the author got the salary for 2006 to compare to the monthly payment. He just says that he was a "federal employee"... but the WH staff secretary currently makes the maximum for a WH staffer (~$180k). That's a much larger gap than is accounted for by just inflation... then the author just dismisses Mrs. Kavanaugh's contribution from two jobs as "neither high-salaried positions"... but she had been Bush's personal assistant.

Plus - He had already been appointed to the appellate court with every indication that he was about to be approved.

his finances are on the up and up. Hope after 11/6 Dems follow the money.

I never heard of federal judges accepting money and gifts from special interest groups, but Kavenaugh is a new kind of conservative judge. Used to be called crooked.

Imagine how much one would have to be worth to afford a house worth $1.2m. I would think he has to have at least ten times that much. Maybe his wife sells potholders on Etsy.

We'll never really KNOW

beer money.

Two other women came forward and said that Clarence Thomas talked about porn with them, but practically no one knows that because once he was confirmed, the MSM moved on to other stuff. And, there's like a million times more distractions with Trump than there were back then.

The issue of Kavanaugh's salary is discussed in a CNBC article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/10/how-much-supreme-court-justices-get-paid.html

The important sentence is this:

I’ve done loans for friends who are local judges and earn over $200k

... he probably made the lower salary. (Or maybe even before that, when he worked for Ken Starr.) Once he moved on up to the federal bench, his "salad days" were over.

No way does a federal court judge make $62,000 a year. Plus, I would suspect that there are other perks involved.

Why do heads of Federal agencies, making decent but not outlandish salaries, retire from their positions better off than 99% of us?

Whether judicial, executive, or legislative branches, something is EXTREMELY FISHY about the wealth of so-called "civil servants."

Thanks for posting, I'd love for an investigative journalist to spend some serious time on this topic.

the same people who paid for his expensive private school and for yale, his rich parents.

People will loan you money if you have good credit and a down payment. You can get his financials from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The house definitely looks like a money laundering thing to me. Could Kavanaugh have been taking bribes. He really did have a large amount of expensive things with seemingly little money. The only explanation I can think of is his wife was making more money than people think she was making.

At the very least, he's probably made a bunch of top level connections in high finance......

I am sure that he has done things to get that dough that are typical Repub chicanery, but I am guessing eveything he has ever had financially comes from his or her parents.

(I mean people with any sort of clout) asking about this?