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(81,568 posts)triron
(22,019 posts)Except Rachel and maybe a couple others.
Botany
(70,567 posts)They spent millions to stop Merrick Garland and they see that packing the courts is their way
to keeping power despite the demographic changes.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judicial_Crisis_Network
Before he was acting A.G. Mathew Whitaker was working with the Judicial Crisis Network
to stop Merrick Garland. I believe the amount of money they spent was $18 million so spending
$1,500,000 to pay off Kavanaugh debts and mortgage is just pocket change to the likes of
the Kochs and the Mercers.
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Kavanaugh's debts are small change for that bunch
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)we might see the person behind this at the big DOJ celebration that is to take place in the near future.
As you mention,Koch Brothers and Mercers were or are major money behind these Libertarian Shadowy Groups.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)question and dozens of others will come to light and justice if, IF, and only IF IF IF IF IF
we take back the Senate, keep the house and the potus is #VoteBlue ! Just sayin...
MBS
(9,688 posts)Danascot
(4,694 posts)convicted.
Under those circumstances I don't think senate action would be required for him to forced to step down. It makes no sense to have a supreme court judge who's a felon and possibly incarcerated.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Zoonart
(11,877 posts)Wakey, Wakey!
malaise
(269,157 posts)I shall cook an Iron Chef like dinner menu, serve white wine and champagne for those who like it and dance all night.
Truth will out and he will expose himself again literally or figuratively - it's in his DNA.
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)what YOU'RE HAVING, malaise!
Thank you for your OPTIMISM!
malaise
(269,157 posts)My dinner or my optimism or both?
Lonestarblue
(10,053 posts)Good food, a few bubbles, and the removal of a corrupt SC Justiceoh happy day!
malaise
(269,157 posts)A nest of vipers - that they are pedophiles, rapists, purveyors of sexual assault.
yes that's this kakistocracy.
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)vast right wing conspiracy HRC told us about in the 1990s!
malaise
(269,157 posts)GHW's administration?
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)ringing a bell?
They need to crawl back into the woodwork where they belong!
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)pandr32
(11,605 posts)I'm in!
malaise
(269,157 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)last for days if we manage to get rid of #45 and take back the Senate
Getting rid of #MoscowMitch would just be lagniappe
malaise
(269,157 posts)Were you a boy scout?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)a bottle of really good champagne. Maybe several bottles. And I'll drink it right from the bottle while I dance in the street to Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I would offer to bring a dessert (still will) but the dessert will be watching Bart OKavanaugh exposed for who he is (no, I do not want to see him exposing himself )
Takket
(21,620 posts)Lets just hold on to that little nugget of info until after the election when hopefully we have a Dem Congress.
We wont have 2/3 in the Senate but well have enough to get a fair trial of Kavanaugh started without McConnell impeding.
At some point drumpf is going to be arrested and convicted of a crime, probably starting Jan 2021. When his treason is finally exposed Dems should demand that a traitors lifetime appointments to SCOTUS should not be allowed to stand.
Kavanaugh will not be removed but could be voted to remove by the majority of the Senate if not the 2/3. It is going to be up to the people to organize protests to demand Gorsuch and Brett resign. We will need to surround and shut down SCOTUS and refuse to let the body meet until they step aside.
BUT.... this all has to wait until drumpf is PROVEN in court to have betrayed the US. So long way to go.
triron
(22,019 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)House Dems have their work cut out for them, and only have aprox 40 days to do it.
Phoenix61
(17,018 posts)has something to do with that? Who investigates lying on financial disclosures? Could it have been kicked to the FBI?
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)brewens
(13,618 posts)until we at least have a Democrat in the White House.
I would imagine bartending at some of the elite watering holes in DC is kind of a time honored confidential thing. I'd like to see word put out that anyone that has something they need to tell Congress or other investigators about doesn't need to worry. They will be protected and someone will take care of them.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)I dont think judge boof is going anywhere but kick and rec anyway!
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)with rubles!
triron
(22,019 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,298 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,403 posts)Maybe he picked up extra money at parties, getting paid to wave his penis while drinking beer and boofing.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)through the nomination process. Justice department needs to be held accountable. There must be a reckoning.
Polybius
(15,470 posts)Didn't know that.
lastlib
(23,272 posts)Especially on federal financial disclosure forms if you hold or seek an office. The rules are pretty stringent. Failing to disclose is perjury.
It makes sense with big money owed and returned. Not so much if the guy down the streets pays me back the $20 that he owes me.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)The billionaires who backed his rise and his nomination. That's my best guess.
Lulu KC
(2,572 posts)I really love Adam Schiff and think his quiet persistence is going to go somewhere on this. He's someone I go to when I want to know what the smart people say.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Smells more than rotten fish.
triron
(22,019 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)If you do funny-money deals, theyll get ya!
Kavs sudden lack of debt looks like a slam dunk, eh? YEAH
triron
(22,019 posts)spanone
(135,862 posts)triron
(22,019 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)If someone were to make a list of all the corrupt acts by the GOP it would be long enough to go around the world a couple of times. I know Dems aren't saints either but there is no comparison.
lame54
(35,317 posts)brush
(53,840 posts)Wonder how much a SCOTUS seat goes for on the open market...er ah...under-the-table-and-into-Swiss-bank-accounts market.
MBS
(9,688 posts)And if Walter Shaub is still concerned, even more reason not to let this go.
kyburbonkid
(251 posts)Federalist society is nothing but a brainwash organization picking judges that support attack the liberties if the working class.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)His son, Deutsche Bank, loans and the tRUMP Crime Family....it's all connected.
disndat
(1,887 posts)Mercers, Putin, Russian Oligarchies, Koch.etc.
So scare!