Brett Kavanaugh may have lied to Congress about stolen Democrat memos - Polidicks

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/judge-brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached-for-lying-during-his-confirmation-hearings.html?__twitter_impression=true Much of Washington has spent the week focusing on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. After the revelations of his confirmation hearings, the better question is whether he should be impeached from the federal judiciary. I do not raise that question lightly, but I am certain it must be raised. Newly released emails show that while he was working to move through President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees in the early 2000s, Kavanaugh received confidential memos, letters, and talking points of Democratic staffers stolen by GOP Senate aide Manuel Miranda. That includes research and talking points Miranda stole from the Senate server after I had written them for the Senate Judiciary Committee as the chief counsel for nominations for the minority. Receiving those memos and letters alone is not an impeachable offense. No, Kavanaugh should be removed because he was repeatedly asked under oath as part of his 2004 and 2006 confirmation hearings for his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit about whether he had received such information from Miranda, and each time he falsely denied it. For example, in 2004, Sen. Orrin Hatch asked him directly if he received “any documents that appeared to you to have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” Kavanaugh responded, unequivocally, “No.” In 2006, Sen. Ted Kennedy asked him if he had any regrets about how he treated documents he had received from Miranda that he later learned were stolen. Kavanaugh rejected the premise of the question, restating that he never even saw one of those documents. Back then the senators did not have the emails that they have now, showing that Miranda sent Kavanaugh numerous documents containing what was plainly research by Democrats. Some of those emails went so far as to warn Kavanaugh not to distribute the Democratic talking points he was being given. If these were documents shared from the Democratic side of the aisle as part of normal business, as Kavanaugh claimed to have believed in his most recent testimony, why would they be labeled “not [for] distribution”? And why would we share our precise strategy to fight controversial Republican nominations with the Republicans we were fighting? Another email chain included the subject line “spying.” It’s hard to imagine a more definitive clue than that. Another said “Senator Leahy’s staff has distributed a confidential letter to Dem Counsel” and then described for Kavanaugh that precise confidential information we had gathered about a nominee Kavanaugh was boosting. Again, it is illogical to think that we would have just given Miranda this “confidential” information for him to use against us. But this is precisely what Judge Kavanaugh suggested in his testimony on Wednesday. He is not that naïve. In the hearing this week, Sen. Leahy also noted that the previously hidden emails showed that Miranda asked to meet Kavanaugh in person to give him “paper” files with “useful info to map out [Sens. Joe] Biden and [Dianne] Feinstein, and others.” The promised information included “Biden-speak.” Again, this would not have been a normal information exchange. In response to Leahy’s questions this week, Kavanaugh made the outlandish claim that it was typical for him to be told what Democrats planned to ask at these combative hearings over controversial nominees, and that this was in fact the “coin of the realm.” As a Democrat who worked on those questions, I can say definitively that it was not typical at all. Kavanaugh knows this full well. At the time, Kavanaugh was working with Miranda and outside groups to try to force these nominees through the Senate over Democratic objections, and it would have been suicide to give them our research, talking points, strategies, or confidential letters. The GOP senators, their staff, the White House, and outside groups were working intensively to undermine the work of Democratic senators to block the most extreme of President Bush’s judicial nominees. There's more shit about how the aide who stole the memos was never prosecuted. The article writer was "the former chief counsel for nominations for the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice."

https://twitter.com/jwlarrabee/status/1038285083491356672

The more the days go by. The more i hate this man's guts. Denying confrontation to a father of a school shooter victim, being a smug ass prick when confronted with his bullshit, talking down other women in politics, denying LGBT individuals the rights of normal people, the list goes on.

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"but Bret Kavangaugh coaches my son's little league team so I know he's a swell guy and deserves a supreme court seat."

He really is the new Robert Bork. Both served in previous administrations (Bork did the Saturday Night Massacre for Nixon) and are fairly massive assholes (Bork wanted to undo the civil rights gains of the court under Earl Warren) Bork's defeat gave us Kennedy

So whats the rules for this? Can you actually be a justice while under a criminal investigation?

ultimate revenge

Christ I hope the complaints pan out, would Republicans be so stupid as to confirm a justice under an ethics investigation?

Please tell me he hasn't been confirmed yet.

Under this political climate? I'm absolutely sure they would, as long as those libtards were being owned!!

If you need to ask “would Republicans be so stupid as to-“, just expect the answer to be “Yes” then just continue drinking yourself into a stupor. That’s what I’ve been doing.

The Dem Coalition is filing another complaint, this time to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (which Brett serves on) https://twitter.com/jwlarrabee/status/1039889713006567425 https://twitter.com/jwlarrabee/status/1039895732407476225