Re: Kavanaugh, in 2021 the Dems must...

[edhopper]

He will probably get the 51 votes he needs, but when the Dems have the House, Senate and Presidency in 2021, they MUST open an investigation and impeach this corrupt, lying mother fucker!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If we are still around, maybe we can do something.

Putin has no intention of letting go now, so expect MAJOR turmoil out of him and the WH.

[brooklynite]

2. On what legal basis would you Impeach Kavanaugh or any other Judge?

On what political basis would you convince 2/3 of the Senate to remove him?

And are Republicans allowed to do the same to our Judges?

[edhopper]

8. He has lied before Congress

and he is lying now in his confirmation hearings.

[brooklynite]

11. You have evidence of that?

[haele]

13. Sen. Leahy just came up with some evidence from his work in the Bush White House....

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/090518kavanaughday2questions

Seems the GOP didn't "redact" some of that document dump as well as they should have...
Lying under oath at the very least.
On edit - also participating in the use stolen/hacked information to prep another nominee at a conformation hearing on questions that were coming up that could sink that nomination if answered truthfully.

Haele

[edhopper]

14. Thank you

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He has to have done something criminal himself, not just have been appointed

as the result of a corrupt process. Only one Supreme Court justice, Samuel Chase, has ever been impeached - that was more than 200 years ago, in 1805 - and he was acquitted by the Senate because his impeachment was considered to have been politically motivated. Lower federal court judges have been removed from office but in those cases they had committed crimes like bribery and fraud. The chances of ever impeaching Kavanaugh range somewhere from vanishingly slim to none.

[Varaddem]

4. Lying under oath?

[edhopper]

9. Bingo!

[Jake Stern]

5. It would actually be simpler for a Dem congress and president

to add more seats to the court. All that would take is amending the Judiciary Act of 1869 while impeaching Kavanaugh would take 67 Senators making it impossible without GOP help.

[onenote]

10. And how simple do you think it will be to get 67 Democratic Senators?

Heck, amending the Judiciary Act would take at least 60 votes unless the Democrat decide among themselves to scuttle the filibuster altogether, something that I wouldn't bet on, at least not in connection with a court packing proposal.

[seaglass]

6. Add 2 seats to the USSC. n/t

[Trust Buster]

7. Replacing Thomas will be our next opportunity. There will be no impeachment's.

[FiveGoodMen]

12. The Dems' only record on impeachment is taking it off the table.