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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpen Letter from 220 Yale Law Students, Alumni, and Educators Regarding Brett Kavanaugh
One excerpt:
Entire letter here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUrOBy5sPzw1VGusbYr2VqVqPiNmO5adNdo8mIcsryvgOfrw/viewform
empedocles
(15,751 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt
bucolic_frolic
(43,192 posts)There is hope!
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Yale's grad Kavanaugh.
Go bulldogs!
bagimin
(1,333 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)even blue state ones. Also call the Judiciary Comm. Here is their contact info.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
The DC Senate phone directory is (202)224-3121
Please call...JUST DO IT! Thanks!
PatSeg
(47,510 posts)becoming cautiously optimistic right about now.
proglib217
(88 posts)But, sadly, optimistic I'm not. Not cautiously or otherwise. The pigs will ram their fellow pig down our throats.
I hope I'm wrong. Nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong.
PatSeg
(47,510 posts)have been on a roller coaster the past two years, so I'm prepared to be disappointed or even outraged yet again. But at least for today, I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.
If life ever becomes normal again, I'm not sure we'll be able to adjust, though I'd like to try.
spanone
(135,846 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Thanks for posting this, dixiegrrrrl.
That letter makes compelling arguments even without considering signatures and the Yale press release that seems to have spurred these folks to action. Anyone not quite up to speed on why Kavanaugh should not be confirmed can use that letter as Cliff's Notes.
Time to make an emergency call to the Senate:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112572
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you to all these signatories! They are true patriots.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)And still end up an idiot?
Neema
(1,151 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)being a legacy (parent/grandparent/uncle graduated from Yale) played a bigger role than it does today. Both W's father George HW Bush, and his grandfather Prescott Bush, graduated from Yale. His family being wealthy is also a help as well. (I had heard that W was rejected by the University of Texas in Austin before enrolling at Yale. UT-Austin is a very good school, but it's not a top 5/10 school like Yale. However, I don't know if the UT rejection story is true?)
Being the son and grandson of wealthy and well known alums can still play a role at many colleges, but I don't think it's quite as important as before.
Back then, Bush was also able to skate by with what was called the Gentleman's C - he could screw up royally in class and/or rarely attend, but because he is the son of wealthy alums (a gentleman), they would still give him a C. (It's not just Bush - supposedly, FDR was similar back in college as well over 100 years ago) That practice is not really around anymore, AFAIK.
Neema
(1,151 posts)and idiot and this still fits.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You know what they call the student who finishes last in his class at law school?
A lawyer.
Cha
(297,323 posts)you can be intelligent in some areas and a fucking moron in others.
Farmer-Rick
(10,190 posts)My brother in law a doctor and very orthodox Jew, reminds me of Carson. Smart about medicine but really dumb about people. See, in a capitalist society, compassion and sympathy are a fault.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)calimary
(81,323 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)funny how a good education can inform the worst instincts.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)efilon
(167 posts)The date on this document is dated July 10 and final update is July 18th of this year.
Why is this just now coming to light or have I just missed it?
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)True Blue American
(17,986 posts)I guess, as Chairman he could with hold the info, just like McConnell did when President Obama informed him of Russian interference.
Finally, after 2 years the truth of the corruption of the Administration and Republican Congress is exploding like a pus filled boil.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sovereignty and equality of all individuals, and with them the freedom and wellbeing of all. Of course some are in more immediate danger of targeted oppression, a grave concern, but in calling out danger they need to make clear: the anti-democratic, authoritarian threat he is part of is to all Americans.