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Also because this is how sexual assault victims get treated more often than not. Their life turned into a three ring circus and everything about them getting put under a microscope and gossiped about. And if you're assaulter is rich and/or powerful enough more often than not it gets swept under the rug and ignored, while you're stuck with harassment and abuse for years to come until America moves onto the next scandal.
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They interviewed several people that Ford said would be able to corroborate her story(including her long time friend); not only could they not corroborate her story but they had no clue what she was talking about. They did not question the people of lesser importance to the case. It doesn't matter how much they investigated this there would never be the evidence required to find him guilty. The dems may have succeeded in swaying a senate vote or two if the investigation was prolonged long enough, but I see no reason for republicans to shoot themselves in the foot over an unsubstantiated claim that had sufficient investigation.
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The "clock" was until the end of the year. Also, midterms aren't for another month. So no, that's not a real reason to not investigate. Especially when you have so many people going to the FBI itself with information.
Also, for a life time appointment, if "more dirt" can be found to convince an undecided, then maybe he shouldn't be given a life time appointment to the highest court in the country. And if they hadn't buried their heads in the sand, they might've actually found something from everyone who was trying to contact the FBI. And there's no "attempt to accuse him of perjury". He 100% committed perjury. If on nothing else, when he lied about calling his MMF threesome a "drinking game". FYI: it's not a bribe to give money to a political opponent if the current one doesn't vote the way you want. That's Citizens United in action. It's also what the GOP does to literally every member who doesn't vote in-line with them. It's how the tea party radicalized them in the first place. But please, tell me more about how it's bad for normal citizens to pool money together to influence politics, but totally cool for billionaires and shadowy shell corporations to do so. And yet another point: it doesn't matter if he's guilty or not. This was a job interview (not a trial, despite the GOP trying to put the first accuser on trial (and ignoring all the other accusers)) that, by all accounts, he failed. He lost his temper, lied to Congress, and had multiple allegations of sexual assault and/or rape. The bar was NEVER guilty, it was "does he seem qualified for the court". And the answer was a resounding No, but the GOP wanted a partisan yes-man who thinks the President is 100% above the law. That's why it HAD to be Kavanaugh. He was the only option that would shield Trump. |
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The people who were going forward with information were a bunch of college students who banded together to claim that Kavanaugh drunk more than he let on. Kavanaugh never denied that he sometimes drunk more than he should have; the argument is whether he drank so much that he blacked out. And honestly, there isn't evidence to know whether he knowingly blacked out and hid the truth; it never happened; or he never recalled an instance like that. Quote:
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He's a republican, he's not a yes-man but it's obvious he's going to side with the other republicans on most issues. Not Trump specifically. That's what the supreme court has always been. Dem judges voting one way, repub judges voting another and a moderate to break the tie. This isn't always the case, but that's generally how it works.
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Literally every republican nominee that made it into the supreme court is going to influence the country in the same way. The party with the majority makes the rules. Quote:
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I recall an instance of the same thing just a little while ago but with swapped sides. Funny how you're furious about one but perfectly fine with the other. Hypocritical some might say. |
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It is while the republicans control the executive and legislative branch. There is no law stating you need an equal number republican and democrat supreme court Justices. Quote:
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People were dumb to focus on his personal life and accusations that may or may not exist, and not enough on his lack of respect for the 4th amendment and work with the Patriot Act. Although I suppose that doesn't matter given how surveillance is very much loved by those in power.
At the same rate, the Supreme Court is cancer and has always ruled in favor of giving itself more power. I mean what do you expect when people have the power to do exactly that? The focus on the value of the Supreme Court and associated partisanship should have never been a thing and giving them lifelong terms is just subject to abuse No it doesn't mean they don't rule on the side of rights, but that doesn't excuse all the other stuff. Perhaps FDR was right in trying to pack the court. What we should be all to strive for is to either limit its power or get rid of it altogether. Unless you think a bunch of distant old men should decide your life. Doesn't anyone find that a problem? Could it lead to a dictatorship? Well, that's been the trajectory. tl;dr Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause Commerce Clause
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While I agree with that I would argue that rape is not a "stupid thing" but a crime. And that guy had enough accusation under oath against him that I would have liked to see a full investigation, which usually takes a couple months. Especially the gang rape accusation from that other woman. An investigation that questions neither the accuser nor the accused is just not a real investigation.
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If I can choose between 48 people who wanted the accusations cleared before confirming someone into the SCOTUS and 50 people who closed both eyes to entrench their power, I don't have to think long about my decision. Neither do you apparently. We both know that even if you don't literally write it that the only reason you think this entire circus is legitimate is because republicans were able to push their candidate through. |
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First, his appointment moved the "median justice" since the "swing" vote, Kennedy, was replaced by someone far to his right. That makes John Roberts the deciding vote in cases that fall along liberal/conservative lines. Second, Kavanaugh has been a committed, partisan warrior since his days working on the investigation into Clinton under then-Special Counsel Kenneth Starr. Kavanaugh's absurd claims about the Clintons being involved in the events during his confirmation was a red flag. Ending that tirade with the suggestion that he would somehow get even with his opponents exposes him as a partisan, not an "umpire," to use Roberts's term.
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