3259

I think it’s possible Conway may, in part, be alluding to having felt ignored by the press in 2017, following the Access Hollywood tape release, when she had her own “me too” moment. She seemed to be saying that she would not have been ignored had she not been Republican or connected to Trump.

Honestly, I don’t yet know what I think about that. There’s a lot to unpack there. But I am annoyed that she’s using that experience as leverage to defend Kavanaugh and to discredit his victims.

3260

QFT

3261

This scenario seemed unthinkable a month ago, but it’s now being privately discussed by sources involved in Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation: If Kavanaugh falls after the FBI investigation this week and Democrats flip the Senate in November, will Trump nominate a compromise Supreme Court justice who’s acceptable to Senate Democrats?

The answer: No way, according to sources with direct knowledge of the president’s thinking, both inside and outside the White House.

3262

Does anyone think Trump and Mitch wouldn’t ram someone through during the lame duck session?

3263

They would certainly try, but it’s not at all clear they’d have the votes.

3264

No problem. I can wait for two more years till we have a new judge on the supreme court. Republicans changed the rules, now they can live with them.

3265

It would be tough to ask the red-state Dem Senators to block all nominations for two years.

3266

She’s also ignoring Gretchen Carlson. The people who didn’t believe Carlson were… oh look conservatives.
Liberals believed her and still do. Conservatives are still sending her death threats.

3267

Trump probably wouldn’t be able to resist naming someone during the recess, regardless of what his administration or anyone else might want.

3268
3269

It’s a running theme. So he basically perjured himself in front of the Senate. While flipping out like an unstable drunk. Which he seems to be.

Seriously pick anyone else off the Federalist list and they’ll probably pass without issue.

Pushing through a guy that a Dem Congress have grounds to later impeach seems like a bad idea for conservatives.

3270

I hope you’re right, but despite the White House statement on the scope not being overly restricted, I heard on NPR this morning that that’s not necessarily so.

I bet even if they get a bunch of people saying he drank a lot in college and was a mean drunk, they’ll just say “Thanks for the input. We’re supporting him anyway because CONSERVATIVE SC MAJORITY.”

3271
3272

How about this? Let BK in, blue wave and get enough votes to impeach and then the Dems put one of their own guys in? At least they have a reason to impeach BK. They might not with some other guy.

3273

Because of the lifetime nature of SCOTUS appointments, impeachment there is really rare. It was possibly going to happen to Abe Fortas in 1969, but Fortas retired to deprive us of seeing that precedent.

3274
3275

A Federal judges also have lifetime appointments and can only be removed after impeachment, just like SCOTUS justices. It’s not exactly common, but a federal judge was impeached and removed from office as recently as 2010. Of the four articles (charges), two were for perjury.

3276

Yeah, the one and only time a SCOTUS member has been impeached was Samuel Chase in 1805… he was impeached on charges of partisan bias.

3277

Which begs the follow-up, what qualifies as a lie? He told plenty of catchable lies.

3278

And good LUCK getting anyone impeached on those grounds these days. Or even preventing someone from getting confirmed.