Kavanaugh's path to the Supreme Court: The fix is on

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An American land speed record was set overnight on Tuesday -- not on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah but in corridors of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C.

Strategists behind Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court made a 42,390-page "document dump" late on Monday afternoon, on the eve of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on nomination of appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Immediately, Senate Democrats asked for time to study what was disclosed, and what key records of Kavanaugh's service in the George W. Bush White House were still being withheld.

They were thwarted.

"Majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages," Senate Republicans claimed in a Tweet early Tuesday. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, repeated the ludicrous claim.

The 42,390 pages are deemed "Committee Confidential," meaning the public may never see them. Democrats will be circumscribed in how much they can use the material in questioning nominee Kavanaugh.

The fix is on for Kavanaugh.

The nomination to life appointment on the high court is being rushed through, by the same Senate Republicans who refused even to hold a hearing on President Obama's 2016 nomination of fellow appellate judge Merrick Garland to the high court.

The Senate Republicans are using Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is using acquiescent members of his party.

The GOP gets to lock in a Supreme Court majority that will rule for its interests and uphold rule by the privileged.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP are at war with America and democracy. I hope most patriots will DEFY the illegal

decisions made by this illegal SC.

[AndJusticeForSome]

2. Fortunately, there's precedent for expanding the SC

Extreme times demand extreme measures.

[Recursion]

3. Easier to just impeach & remove Gorsuch & Kavanaugh (nt)

[AndJusticeForSome]

5. Is that true?

ETA: there being no precedent for how this election unfolded, how easy to impeach those guys?

[Recursion]

6. Impeachment just takes a majority of the House

Removal is harder, it takes 67 Senate votes

[AndJusticeForSome]

7. You don't mean removal, do you?

Adding justices takes 67, is that what you mean?

[Recursion]

8. Removal from office after impeachment I believe requires a supermajority of the Senate (nt)

[AndJusticeForSome]

9. What about adding 2 judges? n/t

[Recursion]

10. Simple majority to pass, but it's subject to filibuster

So in effect 60 votes in the Senate

[AndJusticeForSome]

11. Is "the nuclear option" an option?

Thanks for answering, I know Google is my friend, but DU is my lover.

[Recursion]

12. Ending the legislative filibuster is always possible by a majority vote

That's been true since the cloture vote was introduced. But the filibuster is such a crucial safeguard that I don't think anybody would do it.

[Recursion]

4. I mean, it's not really "a fix", is it?

He's been appointed by the President and the President's party controls the Senate.