Over the weekend, several 2020 Democratic candidates called for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be removed from the bench following a new allegation of sexual misconduct against him.
After the New York Times published a previously unreported account from a former Yale student alleging that Kavanaugh had pushed his penis into a female classmate’s hand, Julian Castro was the first candidate to advocate for Kavanaugh’s impeachment.
“It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath,” Castro tweeted on Saturday night. “He should be impeached.”
It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath. He should be impeached.
And Congress should review the failure of the Department of Justice to properly investigate the matter. https://t.co/Yg1eh0CkNl
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) September 15, 2019
Other Democratic candidates followed suit the next day.
“Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted (D-MA). “Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who participated in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings with Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford last fall, also called for Kavanaugh’s impeachment.
“I sat through those hearings,” she tweeted. “Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people.”
South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg said that Kavanaugh ought to be impeached if he doesn’t resign, according to a statement released to CNN reporter Dan Merica.
While Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t explicitly endorse impeachment, he did say he supported “any appropriate constitutional mechanism to hold [Kavanaugh] accountable.”
President Donald Trump responded to the Times report and Democrats’ subsequent calls for impeachment with fury.
“Now the Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again, talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment,” Trump tweeted. “He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY.”
I shudder to think of the degree of lawlessness we will learn about (assuming we are allowed to find out) this “administration” and the Republican Party engaged in once Trump is gone.
The fact that this is a good thing tells us about who we are up against.
The Kavanaugh Confirmation was a joke, because Trump corrupted the FBI pre-vote Investigation on him, and the chickens are coming home to Roost.
This topic needs to be at the front of the Dem campaign, along with all the mis- and malfeasance of the current administration. I need someone to run that will push back on the whataboutism against Bill and Joe and point out that the whole damned Republican Party is nothing but a bunch of sexual deviants that should never hold the keys of power and diminish half the nation’s population with their deviance.
Who is strong enough to do that and make it stick every damned day of the campaign?
Kavanaugh is going to be one more chain around the ankles of the GOP as they drown in the maelstrom.
Somewhere, from an undisclosed location in Maine, an unnamed US senator is said to be “concerned” and perhaps even “disappointed.”