The White House responded on Thursday to the news that Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) had turned over a mysterious letter about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI.
“Throughout his confirmation process, Judge Kavanaugh has had 65 meetings with senators—including with Senator Feinstein—sat through over 30 hours of testimony, addressed over 2,000 questions in a public setting and additional questions in a confidential session. Not until the eve of his confirmation has Sen. Feinstein or anyone raised the specter of new ‘information’ about him.
Throughout 25 years of public service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has thoroughly and repeatedly vetted Judge Kavanaugh, dating back to 1993, for some of the most highly sensitive roles. He has served in the Office of Independent Counsel, the White House, and on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, all before his nomination earlier this year to serve as Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Senator Schumer promised to ‘oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have,’ and it appears he is delivering with this 11th hour attempt to delay his confirmation.”
Yep blame the Dems.
Rest assured WH if there is nothing to it it will go away. But then again Trump could pardon him. So you still have a fall back.
No, an 11th hour effort to derail a deeply flawed nominee…
BTW, Donnie, your master’s have a suitable replacement SCOTUS nominee when Kavanaugh withdraws.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-praises-merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-during-hearing-hes-great-judge.html
Then there is this! This judge resigned because of sexual allocations against him.
If this White House were competent, this could be taken as ironclad proof that Kavanaugh has some big, nasty skeletons that were about to come out. Because if he didn’t, then the smart play would be some sort of mealy-mouthed statement like “oversight is important, and we respect the FBI’s investigation which we hope will proceed quickly in the interests of concluding the process”. Or something.
But this White House isn’t competent, so it’s entirely possible they are committing a foolish own-goal even if it turns out that the contents of the letter are unimportant or the concerns ill-founded.
Not laying odds, just saying you can’t treat them as sober, rational actors. More like bucket of blind, drunken snakes.