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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Frum: Delay the Kavanaugh Vote
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/kavanaugh/570409/Delay the Kavanaugh Vote
This Senate is singularly ill-equipped to assess the allegations against Trumps Supreme Court nominee.
4:28 PM ET
David Frum
Staff writer at The Atlantic
This post was updated on September 16 at 5:56pm.
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These surprise allegations against Kavanaugh are now to be assessed by people pre-committed to dismissing such allegations as irrelevant to public office. Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court nominee because Donald Trump is president. And what is alleged against Kavanaugh that President Trump has not already confessed?
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The Kavanaugh nomination will now be assessed by people all of whom voted for the presidential candidate who confessed to grabbing women. But assessed is the wrong word. On present indications, the allegations against Kavanaugh will not to be assessed in any meaningful sense at all. But assessed is the wrong word. They are not going to be assessed in any meaningful sense of that word. The Senate Judiciary Committee has already released a statement dismissing the allegations as unworthy of further attention, and in fact, as an abuse of the hearing process. The candidate has been vetted, there is nothing more to learn or say.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. So said Mitch McConnell about the Merrick Garland nomination nine months before the 2016 elections. Its now less than eight weeks to elections that may remake the Senate. Whats the case that this group of men should be the one to speak for the American people about this nomination?
It will be not be easy to ascertain what happened all those years ago. It will not be much easier to judge the relevance of those events, whatever they were, to a confirmation vote 36 years later. But we can judge the judgesand they are the wrong men in the wrong job at the wrong time. This vote should be delayed until more facts are in, and until a broader public has made its voice heard.
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David Frum: Delay the Kavanaugh Vote (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2018
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dchill
(38,532 posts)1. Trump and Kavanaugh. Two dicks in a pod.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)2. Of course delay. What's the hurry?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. K&R
Girard442
(6,084 posts)4. If you want a man who figuratively rapes women...
...what better choice than a man who literally rapes women?