Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh is, quite simply, unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.  The fact that Trump hasn't pulled his nomination demonstrates Trump's utter lack of integrity (try to contain your surprise).  The fact that McConnell and other Senate Republicans haven't publicly expressed their intention to reject his nomination demonstrates theirs.

Again, try to contain your surprise.

What MAY surprise you is that I'm not (yet) talking about the allegations made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Kavanaugh.  No, I'm talking about the multiple instances where Kavanaugh committed perjury --- something it seems that no one is discussing.  In particular, when the Bush administration was working to confirm judicial nominees early this century, a Republican aide named Manuel Miranda stole some strategy memos from Democrats, and

. . . [Kavanaugh] was repeatedly asked under oath as part of his 2004 and 2006 confirmation hearings for his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit about whether he had received such information from Miranda, and each time he falsely denied it.

He repeated these lies during his recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings.  Perjury is a felony, and while it seems that legal experts agree Kavanaugh's lies don't meet the high bar for actual prosecution, it's a slam dunk that no one who brazenly commits perjury multiple times has any business serving as a judge, much less sitting on the Supreme Court.

Note: But the Republicans don't care.  Not even one out of 51, apparently.

Now the allegations of attempted rape made by Dr. Ford are an entirely separate matter, but Kavanaugh's checkered history with the truth puts him at a disadvantage in terms of credibility.  While Dr. Ford has passed a polygraph, and experts in sexual assault deem her story credible, there is no reason to give much weight to Kavanaugh's denials.

Note: But the Republicans don't care.  Not even one out of 51, apparently.

Kavanaugh's Republican supporters aren't doing themselves any favors, either.  While they correctly point out that the concept that one is 'innocent until proven guilty' is the bedrock of our legal system, they are also blocking an FBI investigation that might exonerate Kavanaugh.  This is a neat trick to make sure Kavanaugh is never proven guilty, even if he is.

Or maybe they're blocking such an investigation precisely because they're concerned it might incriminate him instead.  Or quite possibly, they don't want anyone looking too closely at Kavanaugh's formative years because he might have still other skeletons in his closet.

In the end, it's clear that Kavanaugh doesn't belong on the Supreme Court, and it looks like even the Senate Republicans recognize that fact.

Note: But they seem determined to put him there anyway.