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By Avi Selk @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 28
[....] Late Thursday evening, the ABA called for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on his Supreme Court nomination. The warning was all the more remarkable, because just hours earlier, Kavanaugh and his Republican defenders had cited the ABA’s previously glowing endorsement of the nominee — “the gold standard,” as one leading Republican put it.
Flash back to the mid-2000s and another fight in the Senate over Kavanaugh’s nomination to a federal court:
Democrats for three years had been blocking President George W. Bush’s 2003 nomination of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. They argued he was biased, as shown by his work as a lawyer for Bush’s presidential campaign, for an independent counsel’s investigation into President Bill Clinton and for other conservative causes.
Republicans kept pushing to make Kavanaugh a judge on the powerful appeals court, year after year. In his defense, they cited multiple reviews by the ABA’s judicial review committee that found him “well qualified” — the big attorney association’s highest possible endorsement, meaning Kavanaugh had outstanding legal abilities and outstanding judicial temperament.
But in May 2006, as Republicans hoped to finally push Kavanaugh’s nomination across the finish line, the ABA downgraded its endorsement.
The group’s judicial investigator had recently interviewed dozens of lawyers, judges and others who had worked with Kavanaugh, the ABA announced at the time, and some of them raised red flags about “his professional experience and the question of his freedom from bias and open-mindedness." [....]
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The above was the # 1 most popular story @ WaPo until a few minutes ago; by the time I finished reading it it had been knocked down to #2 by this new headline story:
FBI reaches out to 2nd woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. It was unclear whether agents had yet interviewed Deborah Ramirez, who was a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale. President Trump said Saturday the FBI investigation “will be a blessing in disguise. It will be a good thing.”
I note with interest the detail that this story has been filed by WaPo under the category "National Security."
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 9:14pm
Compare with the article that Peracles posted on a previous thread that reminds of Sen. Feinstein's statement at the committee's meeting.
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 9:23pm
Again, it's the non-judicial temperament after being accused of assault, stupid:
Kavanaugh’s evasive testimony probably wouldn’t have been allowed in his own courtroom
By Deanna Paul @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 29
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 9:38pm
Dean of Yale Law School endorses ABA request for further investigation @ USAToday, Sept. 28
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 9:45pm
In reply to Comey's small lies matter tweet, Benjamin Wittes translates into legalese from case law: the well-settled principle that false exculpatory statements are evidence - often strong evidence - of guilt:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 9:57pm
Nate Silver & Josh Marshall on the "small lies matter" meme; click on the post date and you'll get 2 more comments by Silver, it's a thread:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 11:15pm
Silver posts, "But he's very comfortable with lying (under oath no less). He doesn't even bother coming up with good, believable lies." Yeah, we all see it. Are they going to just confirm him anyway?
by ocean-kat on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 12:58am
John Dean:
John Brennan:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 3:32pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 3:37pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 3:43pm