1650
1651

See, if this was the case, then Harris should have had a lot of those people and had him look at it and say if he had talked to anyone in the list

1652

Yup that would have been the better questions. Oh and by the way, and back in 1980, I was intern in the fledging IT department of Kasowitz Benson Torres, so you all would be lying, since youā€™ve discussed Mueller with me.

1653

Lying? knowingly and to the best of my knowledge seem to make the statements truthful. The problem is he couldnā€™t use those dodges, because he canā€™t convince anyone he didnā€™t know Ed McNally works at that firm.

1654

ā€œfuckmuppettingā€ - two thumbs up, would add to my personal lexicon again - right next to ā€œsnort my taintā€.

1655

Sheldon Whitehouse submitted additional written questions to BK. It will be difficult to avoid answering all these questions, since some pertain to BKā€™s finances, or his prior work in the Bush administration ā€¦ in fact, these questions cover a lot of ground. I hope Whitehouse releases the responses too.

1656
1657

Justice Scummy McScumbag.

Bill Burck produced to the committee a document from your tenure in the White House
Counselā€™s Office that references a ā€œgame of dice.ā€ After a reunion with friends in
September 2001, you emailed: ā€œApologies to all for missing Friday (good excuse), and
growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice (donā€™t recall). Reminders
to everyone to be very, very vigilant w/r/t confidentiality on all issues and all fronts,
including with spouses.ā€

Donā€™t worry people, nothing to see here. Heā€™s just asking them to not tell their wives about his upcoming date in a totally normal and non-suspicious way, thatā€™s all.

I was referring to my upcoming first date with my now-wife, Ashley, which was
scheduled to take place that evening (September 10, 2001). Over the course of the preceding
weekend, I had discussed Ashley at some length with my longtime friends. In the email, I was
asking my friends not to share my interest in and upcoming date with Ashley with their spouses.

As an aside, I just realized that if Obama, or someone else of dubious birth in GOP minds, had written something about confidentiality on all issues and all fronts the day before 9/11, heā€™d be fucking crucified right now.

1658

Welp.

1659

Also, thisā€¦

So, likely course of events for the next two years: Kavanaugh is confirmed, we eventually learned he harassed women in the workplace, and Roe gets eroded into meaningless.

Imagine the gender splits in the 2020 vote.

1660

Evertyhingā€™s being rebooted, inluding Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas, except the early 1990s were A LOT more civilized than today. And we didnā€™t have the scourge of social media.

1661

I donā€™t recall that Thomas hearing being all that civilized.
((Tangentially, SCOTUS nomination hearings used to be pretty interesting (for anyone interested in legal reasoning anyway). Not so much any more.))

Anyway, conjecture/theory post from reddit. Canā€™t imagine even angry Democrats thinking a high school incident should be referred to the FBI.

So two things are noted, one that it involves a woman and an incident in high school and the other that this has been referred to the FBI. Since statute of limitations will have run out on any high school crime short of murder, how about this for a hypothesis:

The lady made her intentions to go forward with a harmful story known to Kavanaugh, sometime after he was on the DC circuit. Knowing that the $10k bank withdrawal limits are what got Hastert, Kavanaugh uses his credit card and ā€œbaseball ticketsā€ to effectively launder payoff money to the woman.

Somehow this surfaces and thus the crime referred to the FBI would be financial/blackmail/bribe related. This would be a relatively recent crime, on inside itā€™s own statute of limitations.

1662

Itā€™s all relative.

1663

I certainly never looked at a Coke can the same way after it was over

1664

I donā€™t know - seems pretty important if a future member of the SCOTUS has paid off someone to prevent an incident from being known by the general public. What would prevent him from being blackmailed in the future? Is it known for certain that itā€™s a woman from high school or is that just Reddit conjecture also?

1665

The Intercept was reporting it, not sure if anywhere else has said that.

1666

Pure speculation:

Anything that happened when Kavanaugh was in HS would be well past the statute of limitations. If there is a related FBI referral, that would require something more recent. Threats? Bribes? It seems likely to be a potentially unlawful attempt to keep it hidden.

1667

Kavanaugh grew up in the DMV (DC/MD/VA) area. If he picked up a date in his hometown of Bethesda, drove a blocks into DC, had sex there, he could be prosecuted for crossing state lines under the Mann Act. Since it would involve crossing state boundaries, that could rise to the FBI.

That is the most likely scenario that matches the rumors, and explains why itā€™s been sat on. A hearsay rumor that he had consensual sex in HS probably wonā€™t be met with much public approval.

Releasing the rumors like this is political gold.

1668

Yeah because what woman doesnā€™t think to herself, I had consensual sex with a supreme court nominee as a teenager. Iā€™m going to tell my congresswoman about it. Bet we can get him on the Mann act!

1669

I agree theyā€™ve been boring pretty much for the last 20 years. This century it is all been political theater. In part, because the nominees are boringly predicable. They went to Harvard, or Yale (Kavanaugh shifts the all important Harvard Yale from 6-3 to 5-4). The intern for either a Supreme Court justice or appellate court. They spent some time in private practice, got a judgeship pretty young, got elevated to the appeals court.

Honestly the diversity due to sex, or skin color, or even conservative or liberal views, pales in importance to that fact that every justice learned law at the same two law schools.