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Dems Find Their Spine at the Kavanaugh Hearings. But will it last?
Joan Walsh, the Nation. Great article! Read it all.
https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-find-their-spine-at-the-kavanaugh-hearings-but-will-it-last/
With savvy protesters also disrupting proceedings, the GOP plot to fast-track his confirmation could run into real trouble.
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Republican Senator Chuck Grassley had just begun to politely railroad Brett Kavanaughs wildly unpopular Supreme Court nomination through the Judiciary Committee he chairs, when a womans steely voice, off camera, interrupted him.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed.
The camera eventually turned to the speaker, California Senator Kamala Harris.
The committee received just last nightless than 15 hours agomore than 42,000 pages of documents that we have not had a chance to read or review or analyze, Harris told the chair. We cannot possibly move forward. Harris was referring to an unexpected wave of Kavanaugh documents released hours before the hearing, late Sunday night, by attorneys hired by the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
Grassley ignored her, so Amy Klobuchar continued. When Grassley ignored Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal moved to adjourn the hearing. The cranky Iowa senator ignored him, too. We are rushing through this process in a way that is unnecessary, Cory Booker then implored. I appeal to your sense of fairness and decency.
Predictably, that appeal failed too. Grassley gave up on fairness and decency a long time ago, when he refused to hold a hearing on President Barack Obamas Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, keeping the seat warm for über-conservative Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed last year, thus depriving our first black president of one of the most important decisions of his second term.
But Grassley was rattled. He let all of the Democrats get in early hits at both Kavanaughand at the sneaky GOP process in confirming him. Those hits stung. All hell broke loose from the audience: chanting and poster-waving from dozens of Kavanaugh opponents, followed by their noisy removal. One demand was repeated: Cancel Brett Kavanaugh. Adjourn the hearing.
...
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley had just begun to politely railroad Brett Kavanaughs wildly unpopular Supreme Court nomination through the Judiciary Committee he chairs, when a womans steely voice, off camera, interrupted him.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed.
The camera eventually turned to the speaker, California Senator Kamala Harris.
The committee received just last nightless than 15 hours agomore than 42,000 pages of documents that we have not had a chance to read or review or analyze, Harris told the chair. We cannot possibly move forward. Harris was referring to an unexpected wave of Kavanaugh documents released hours before the hearing, late Sunday night, by attorneys hired by the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
Grassley ignored her, so Amy Klobuchar continued. When Grassley ignored Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal moved to adjourn the hearing. The cranky Iowa senator ignored him, too. We are rushing through this process in a way that is unnecessary, Cory Booker then implored. I appeal to your sense of fairness and decency.
Predictably, that appeal failed too. Grassley gave up on fairness and decency a long time ago, when he refused to hold a hearing on President Barack Obamas Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, keeping the seat warm for über-conservative Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed last year, thus depriving our first black president of one of the most important decisions of his second term.
But Grassley was rattled. He let all of the Democrats get in early hits at both Kavanaughand at the sneaky GOP process in confirming him. Those hits stung. All hell broke loose from the audience: chanting and poster-waving from dozens of Kavanaugh opponents, followed by their noisy removal. One demand was repeated: Cancel Brett Kavanaugh. Adjourn the hearing.
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Dems Find Their Spine at the Kavanaugh Hearings. But will it last? (Original Post)
sharedvalues
Sep 2018
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. Good lord everyone is so invested in this narrative.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)2. I thank everyone who is protesting this confirmation.
0rganism
(23,960 posts)3. "I appeal to your sense of fairness and decency."
i believe the technical term for that is "a dry hole"