Kavanaugh Won’t Say Whether He Believes There’s Widespread Voter Fraud

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Asked by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) if he believed there was widespread voter fraud, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh deferred and said he’d prefer to stick to what’s in the record of a case in front of him.

“There’s discussion of this issue and I would want, as a sitting judge, I would I want to see a record before me of what’s going on in a particular case,” Kavanaugh said. “I hesitate to opine on something based something I read in the law review article or a blog. I think you have a better sense of what is going on there. I would want a record in a particular case to determine what the evidence in the particular case was.”

In the exchange, Kavanaugh also said that he read UC-Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog — something that he alluded to Wednesday evening.

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  1. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    Kavanaugh: I have no thoughts, I have no feelings. I know nothing about current events or about history. I don’t remember the past, even my own, and I have no plans for and can’t predict the future. I won’t answer questions about hypotheticals, and I won’t answer questions about existing cases.

    Now put me on the Supreme Court!

  2. Question: If he refuses to answer any questions, why are we even holding hearings?

  3. Jesus on a Allosaurus, this is a no-brainer. It’s a statistical fact that voter fraud is a miniscule occurrence out of total votes cast.

    THE COURTS AGREE!!

    Courts Agree: Fraud by Voters at the Polls is Nearly Non-Existent

    The verdict is in from every corner that voter fraud is sufficiently rare that it simply could not and does not happen at the rate even approaching that which would be required to “rig” an election. Electoral integrity is key to our democracy, and politicians who genuinely care about protecting our elections should focus not on phantom fraud concerns, but on those abuses that actually threaten election security.
    https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth

    Boy’s either a wise guy or a bag of shit.

  4. How does Kavanaugh’s avoidance of any substantive answers compare to other recent Supreme Court nominees?

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