Red state Democrats can easily oppose Beltway Brett Kavanaugh

By Paul Begala @ CNN.com, Updated 11:55 PM ET, Mon July 9, 2018

Senator Corey Booker (J.D. from Yale Law; Rhodes Scholar in history, not to mention maybe presidential candidate in 2020) on Maddow last night. Clearly, he thinks the presidential immunity/ constitutional crisis issue should be the main first line of attack:

interesting point that Tim Mullaney @ Marketwatch makes, he's a "live paycheck to paycheck" kinda guy:

[....] Kavanaugh’s financial disclosure report was only noted in passing by legal eagles, but left personal-finance mavens scratching their heads. Already an appellate-court judge — with a Yale Law degree, no history of bad health or unemployment and a working spouse — he has $15,000 to $50,000 in the bank, no reported stock, bond or fund holdings, and a 401(k) retirement account held by his wife that holds less than $15,000. He’s miles behind where a normal person’s finances should be at 53.

Based on his report, Kavanaugh will be the only non-millionaire on the court, with a net worth, excluding his house, of less than $100,000 — or about the cost of a year at Yale Law, an estimated $76,000 all-in.

Kavanaugh isn’t alone in living close to paycheck to (in his case) $8,500 pretax biweekly paycheck, not including side gigs teaching at Harvard Law School ($27,490 in additional income in 2017). According to the Federal Reserve, 47% of Americans would have trouble meeting an unexpected $400 expense. Of course, the median household income of about $57,000 is a quarter of the Kavanaugh family nut.

Unlike many Americans, however, Kavanaugh has no debts, excluding any mortgage on his 2,472-square foot house in Maryland, which he isn’t required to report. (Zillow.com values the home at $1.39 million and lists the last reported sale at $1.23 million in 2006. The return on that investment? A paltry 1.05% annually.) [....]