Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 17 2018 11:45am)

no. when the only thing we have is the word of the accuser, even after a thorough investigation into her allegations, then this should never ever be enough to derail something as important as a supreme court nomination, period.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 17 2018 10:45am)

no. when the only thing we have is the word of the accuser, even after a thorough investigation into her allegations, then this should never ever be enough to derail something as important as a supreme court nomination, period.

Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 17 2018 12:31pm)

this is a rather pathetic attempt to stall, but in a legal system where reading cook books has been used to stall decisions we can't expect much more. I simply wish there was more clap back from the far left media, instead of silence at this mockery of advocating for victims.

Quote (IceMage @ Sep 17 2018 11:37am)

Sexual assault and racism allegations are two things the MSM simply refuse to be nuanced about.

Quote (Goomshill @ 16 Sep 2018 16:25)

>liberal social professor at palo alto
>has no evidence of her story whatsoever
>claims to never have told anyone about a 1982 incident until 2012
>recalls almost no details about the night, doesn't know whos house it was, how she got there, who organized it
>said she was drinking at the time

oh boy this is going places
You know even if everything she said was true, and she somehow had evidence and got him convicted of whatever crime that's supposed to be at the time in 1982 (that's a whole lot of hypothetical reach right there), it would still go on his juvenile sealed record or get expunged

Quote (thundercock @ 17 Sep 2018 00:15)

Both parties need to get their act together when it comes to SCOTUS nominees. All nominees, excluding Thomas, should have been confirmed unanimously.

O'Connor (Reagan): 99-0
Scalia (Reagan): 98-0
Bork (Reagan): 42-48 (rejection)
Kennedy (Reagan): 97-0
Thomas (Bush): 52-48 (no filibuster was used)
Souter (Bush): 90-9
Ginsberg (Clinton): 98-0
Breyer (Clinton): 87-9
Roberts (Bush): 78-22
Alito (Bush): 58-42 (John Kerry filibustered, cloture vote was 72-25)
Sotomayor (Obama): 68-31 (9 Republicans voted for her)
Kagan (Obama): 63-37 (5 Republicans voted for, 1 Democrat voted against)
Garland (Obama): No hearing
Gorsuch (Trump): 54-45 (filibuster threatened so nuclear option was used)
Kavanaugh (Trump): Currently a partisan disaster right now

While the Republicans did the unthinkable with Garland, the Democrats have been playing politics with nominees for several decades. Scalia and Ginsberg (who represent the furthest right and left wing judges respectively when you exclude Thomas) were both unanimously confirmed so there's really no reason why all the others (including Garland) shouldn't have been unanimous.

Quote (IceMage @ 17 Sep 2018 08:13)

Good people can do bad things. I don't know why people can't understand that.

Quote (IceMage @ 17 Sep 2018 12:37)

Sexual assault and racism allegations are two things the MSM simply refuse to be nuanced about.

Quote (ThatAlex @ 17 Sep 2018 21:02)

Is the bolded true? It's short of being proof of sexual assault (rape kit, footage, police report, etc), but the timeline in which she presented the evidence lends it more credibility. She contacted the Washington Post and and a congresswoman before Kavanaugh was even nominated while he was on the shortlist. There's also some level of corroboration from 2012 and 2013 from her therapist.

It's obviously not full-proof evidence, but I wouldn't classify it as 'no evidence whatever'.



Agreed. That's why the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees was important. It forced compromise and cordiality.

Similar politics are now occurring with appointees like the FBI Director and cabinet members. Betsy Devos obviously deserved what she got, but most of Trump's cabinet picks were qualified and deserved more Democratic votes. I'm not certain a President could completely fill out his or her cabinet if the opposite party controlled the Senate anymore.





Word.

Quote (Helloween7 @ 17 Sep 2018 21:08)

Politics aside, why are republicans so bad at optics? In the time of our lord #metoo, why even nominate this man over the others on the shortlist? The fact thst the republicans had a letter attesting to his morals means they knew from the get go. Don't tell me the other picks had bigger skeletons than him? Did Trump love his no impeachment opinion so much that he was the only choice?

There's a reason why so many people say that Republicans are bad at governing and they prove it so very often.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 17 2018 03:10pm)

the letter was signed after the accusations came out, not beforehand. why do you, and others, keep insisting that they had a "preemptive letter" in the drawer?

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 17 2018 12:10pm)

the letter was signed after the accusations came out, not beforehand. why do you, and others, keep insisting that they had a "preemptive letter" in the drawer?