Trollminator wrote:
On that note, the Supreme Court picks under Trump will definitely be the most consequential relics of his presidency. The US has demographically shifted progressive over time and will undoubtedly continue on that path, while judicially we go the other way. This growing gap between public sentiment and the way the legal system serves the public can’t lead to anything good. Only more polarization to come.
That is absolutely true, and hardly confined to the Supreme Court. Republicans know the demographics are slipping away so they are desperately scrambling for every method to pack them. For example, Rick Scott as outgoing governor of Florida plans to appoint three new justices to the state supreme court on the morning the new governor is sworn in. The precedent and the practice has always been for the new governor to make those appointments. It is clearly the intent of the law. But swarmy Medicare Fraud Rick thinks he can pick his own judges before noon that day, due to the technicality that the new governor is traditionally not sworn in until noon.
It is now well beyond laughable, the steps that side will take to suppress votes or prevent a Supreme Court nomination and so forth. Then they wonder how they can have a 28% approval rating among millennials. Why can't they be as scared and gullible as old white people? Unfair.
Anyway, regarding the Kavanaugh hearing it is obvious one line of attack Republicans are currently testing out. The lady was assaulted but it wasn't Kavanaugh. I saw Orrin Hatch say that on CNN and likewise Ken Starr emphasized it to Wolf Blitzer an hour later: "False identifications happen all the time."
Oh sure. I make it at least 50% likely. Republicans need to be extremely careful pushing that type of theme, especially during the hearing itself. Woman after woman nationwide has had to endure that type of attack, and it can be life altering. The gender gap is already blowing open. If that side tries to pretend a woman would endure that type of assault and confuse who did it, they are rendering themselves to outright mockery and fewer votes.
Kavanaugh is a squirmy frat boy type, as evidenced by his shifty non-response to Kamala Harris last week, among other examples. The female accuser from Palo Alto is a huge favorite to be strong and decisive and articulate. Her friends have already come forward to describe her. Let's just say I don't like the opposition chances to make her out to be anything but incredibly impressive. In fact, with only a week to prepare I can almost guarantee she will have supportive anecdotes and emphasis that simpleton opposing senators have no way to anticipate or counter.
Should be fun