Could this turn into a problem for Republican’s efforts to get their guy to work with the Supreme’s?
Senate Democrats are gearing up to press Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on his decades-long relationship with former Judge Alex Kozinski, who was forced into retirement last year by a mounting sexual harassment scandal.
It’s not just what, if anything, Kavanaugh saw during his time as a Kozinski clerk in the early 1990s that’s on Democratic minds. They also want to know how President Donald Trump’s high court pick would address the judiciary’s ongoing internal reckoning with sexual misconduct that was sparked by Kozinski — one of Kavanaugh’s early mentors who introduced the younger appellate court judge at his Senate confirmation hearing in 2006.
“Sexual harassment and workplace misconduct in the federal judiciary is a matter of concern to all of us, including Chief Justice [John] Roberts, who convened a Judicial Conference working group to assess the problem and propose solutions,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said through a spokesman.
“Given Judge Kavanaugh’s close relationship with former Judge Alex Kozinski, the subject of numerous harassment complaints, we need to know what Judge Kavanaugh knew and his views on this serious problem,” added Hirono, who sits on the Judiciary Committee and will have a chance to directly question Kavanaugh at hearings planned for next month.
The topic is a particularly fraught one in the #MeToo era, and something the White House knew might be an issue going into the Supreme Court fight. Critics of Kavanaugh previously raised the Kozinski connection in an opposition research document passed around to try to persuade Trump not to nominate him to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy….
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This isn’t going to have any effect upon the confirmation vote in my view.It has become a litmus test issue.
Republicans are locked in on this.Any Republican who breaks ranks will guarantee themselves a serious primary opponent as well as total ostracism from the Republican media.
Probably NOT jack…
But?
Ya NEVER KNOW….
Hey Jack?
Question?
Would I be correct in thinking that you feel that Donald Trump will be fine for the next 6 1/2 years in office as President?
That the GOP will morph into whatever he wants to be?
The Russia will be the strongest US ally?
The even with a Democratic Congress it won’t matter?
You sign on to all of this?
No
Here’s a question for you..
Do you ever get tired of asking dumbass questions and showing yourself to be a complete goofball?
James thinks he stumped you and you just avoiding his questions by attacking his intelligence.
Sadly you’re probably right,so I might as well confess…
Hell yeah Trumps gonna be President but for a lot longer than six damn years,
Anddamn right…ev’ry damn House will have a Putin picture above the fireplace!
As fer the Demycrats?Hell with em!Trump says it,I believe it,
America is great again!
It took James to smoke me out.Hes a real smart man.
Actually it was straight up questions..
I take your first answer as the Answer….
Yeah sure.
If it was a legitimate question it sure was framed oddly .Then the accusatory,”you sign on to all this?”
Also, why were these questions aimed at just me?Why not ask everybody?
Once again, you think you’re clever.Youre not and your motive is as transparent as a plate glass window.
As your weird obsession with me continues.
Obsessions increasingly seem to be prevalent here now.
This by itself won’t sink Kavanaugh. But Republican Senators are not going to enthusiastically defend sexual abuse just before the election. Kavanaugh needs to answer some questions on this,