As Democrats and Republicans brawled over obtaining possibly millions of pages of records related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Democratic leadership withheld one-on-ones with most of its members as a punishment.
According to a Friday Washington Post report, now, they’ll end the boycott in the hope that the Senators will be more successful in getting the documents they want in a face-to-face meeting with Kavanaugh.
However, not all Democrats were beholden to the boycott — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has already met with Kavanaugh, and Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) have meetings planned.
Republicans have so far only agreed to request documents from Kavanaugh’s days as White House counsel under George W. Bush; Democrats are pushing for the records relating to his time as Bush’s staff secretary as well.
As of now, even though the White House counsel documents alone will reportedly take at least until October to be released, Republicans are planning to force the confirmation hearing in September.
Republicans are shameless.
What is the over/under on how many Dems fold and vote for Kavanaugh?
So if I were going to play hardball later on, and had the votes, I would impeach Kavanaugh for being a party to the subversion of the senate’s duty to advise and consent.
This, and other dreams.
Dear Dems:
MERRICK F*CKING GARLAND.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
To restate the obvious, this would be a lifetime appointment for the 53 year-old Kavanaugh. Every effort needs to be taken to learn and make public significant examples of his work record and work product to ensure that he is competent, capable, and will bring honor to the court, and that he is not just another conservative shill like Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito.
Senate Dems need to do everything they can to 1) insure Brett Kavanaugh is thoroughly vetted – “extreme vetting” to parrot Trump, and; 2) Do everything possible to delay his confirmation until after the November elections.