Don't forget how Kavanaugh once wrote an opinion that a sitting President should not be indicted. I'm sure someone in the GOP inner circle noticed that.
Don't forget how Kavanaugh once wrote an opinion that a sitting President should not be indicted. I'm sure someone in the GOP inner circle noticed that.
Well, some people are arguing that if someone tried to rape someone in high school, that shouldn't affect them from obtaining positions as an adult (not even as a lifetime judge on the highest court in the country).
The idea of a Supreme Court with appointed, not elected, lifetime judges, is pretty anti-democratic and totally authoritarian. Partisan political puppets are given the privilege of dictating how our society progresses or, with the current state, regresses. It's really fucked up.
I wish people had understood the whole lifetime judges being appointed thing when they went, or didn't, to the polls in 2016.
I know the Supreme Court issue was on my mind when I voted, esp when Yertle the Turtle McConnell arrogantly refused to even have talks with Merrick Garland.
On another note, Judge Judy wannabe Justine Pirro pulls this "repressed memory" assertion out of her posterior in referring to the people coming forward about Kavanaugh's connection to "train" parties while he was at Georgetown Prep and Yale. I caught about 10 minutes of her show on Saturday night and that's 10 minutes is more than I can take of her. She also had tea party activist Katrina Pierson on and some random guy they could yell at who represented the opposing viewpoint. Intelligent discussions seem to be forbidden on that show and her M.O seems to be to just rag on any talking head that isn't a Fox News shill. I doubt if any legitimate expert appears on this harpy's show.
Team Mueller talked about the Steele Dossier for the first time publicly today.
Mueller makes rare mention of Trump dossier author. Prosecutors were responding to an indicted Russian company's complaint that the special counsel 'selectively' targeted the firm while giving Steele a pass.
“Acting as an anonymous source for media articles is not similar to conducting 'information warfare against the United States of America,'" was their main point.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
What you need to remember about Jeanine Pirro (besides her first name) is that she was supposed to run for the US Senate seat in NY against Hillary Clinton in 2000, but when the Republican Party of NY saw that Hillary was way ahead in the polls, they talked Pirro into running for Attorney General instead and prop up that stooge Rick Lazio instead to take one for the team against Hillary. Pirro lost the race for AG too, though and still hates Hillary and by extension, all Democrats for her defeat. She is a bitter, bitter woman.
My parent's cite her as an "expert" all the time.
I always ask then why isn't she practicing law now. Why didn't she win NY AG?
If she goes back, she has to answer New York about the Deskovic Case and why he was falsely convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl and then spent 16 years in prison until he was exonerated by DNA evidence. She refused to reopen the case 17 times when the DNA evidence came to her. If she went back to law, she'd probably lose her ability to practice.
Then my parent's scoff and don't know what to answer.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
The scary part is Pirro has been angling for the Attorney General for months now.
I don’t think that’s true. He’s a judge, he knows any real convictions against him are an uphill battle. He knows he has the Presidents backing and the Republicsns are terrified of failing him. He knows the GOP doesn’t want to wait until midterms and risk not getting a conservative on the court. He knows it’s a lifetime appointment once they confirm him. He also knows the Democrats won’t vote to remove him because they don’t want a shitshow with Republicans trying to remove liberal judges in retaliation. He’ll just pull a Clarence Thomas and call the allegations bullshit the rest of his life and Republicans will rally around him.
And the reward for that is he achieves the highest office in his line of work
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I'm curious to see what Avenatti's got. Like him or not he usually is right. There's no doubt he's got ambtions beyond this but IMO I wish some Democrats would get a little of his attitude and stop being nice to the GOP. Guys like the spineless Lindsay Graham, or jerks like McConnell, Nunes, are allowed to run amok and no one among the Dems really stands up to them.
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Cosby gets 3-10 years. Possibility for good behavior to serve closer to 3. Gets the "sexually violent predator" label, which is the highest it goes in the state.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium