A watchdog group filed a Senate ethics complaint Monday against Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren for sending out fundraising emails asking for donations to support their votes against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — even before they cast their votes against him. While voting and then asking supporters to back that decision with cash is common, the watchdog group, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), says asking for money ahead of time crosses the line into vote-buying.
FACT asked the Senate ethics committee to probe fundraising emails sent by Ms. Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, and Ms. Harris, California Democrat.
Ms. Warren’s email said she was demanding a delay on the judge’s confirmation vote and asked for donations for her 2018 election campaign, while Ms. Harris’s emails detailed several of her actions as a member of the Judiciary Committee, including her questioning of the president’s pick for the high court, and asking for contributions.
The Senate’s rules prohibit senators “cashing in” on using their official positions for personal gain.
FACT said that linking a promise of official action with campaign contributions violates that principle.
“This is a clear violation of the Senate Ethics rules which safeguard against the appearance or actuality of elected officials ‘cashing in’ on their official position for political purposes,” said Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT.
Spokespersons for Ms. Harris and Ms. Warren didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
CBF is still in "hiding", using her $1m+ in donations to survive.
“William O. Douglas, the influential liberal justice was a shameless liar and, as a Post review of one book about him put it, ‘something of a monster’ toward women.” Veteran criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield observed: Douglas was a “disgusting sexual harasser” who committed criminal acts. Indeed, Douglas was “a compulsive sexual harasser, who repeatedly assaulted women, as any number of court employees attested. … Justice Douglas would show up to judicial conferences and grope even the wives of federal judges, triggering fistfights with men whose wives he sexually assaulted.” The late U.S. district judge Larry Lydick described such incidents of groping and the altercations that ensued: Apart from being a flagrant liar, Douglas was a compulsive womanizer, a heavy drinker, a terrible husband to each of his four wives, a terrible father to his two children, and a bored, distracted, uncollegial, irresponsible, and at times unethical Supreme Court justice.
Douglas also propositioned the wives of law clerks, and groped unsuspecting female visitors to the court. His colleague Felix Frankfurter, who was appointed by the same president who picked Douglas, called Douglas “one of the two completely evil men I have ever met.”
He was married four times, each time to progressively younger women. As the alimonies added up, he needed cash and ended up relying on secret payments from a shady businessman. People said that Douglas loved humanity and hated people. Such was his obsessive hatred of [his colleague Justice Felix] Frankfurter that he dubbed the Austrian-born Jewish justice “Der Fuhrer” — during the Holocaust. Frankfurter called Douglas “one of the two completely evil men I have ever met.”
As long as he voted for the progs, they loved him of course.
Few law professors are admirers of the work of Justice Douglas. His opinions were terse and lacking in legal argument, such as analysis, extension of precedent, or any search for the ‘original intent’ underlying constitutional provisions. Worse, “Douglas’s opinions were often obscure in their reasoning and even their holdings. Many were drafted in twenty minutes. Some were written on the bench during oral argument. His published opinions often read like rough drafts.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, USA MSM/academia is not calling for the myriads of buildlings/wilderness named after him to be renamed in his wake...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-shouldnt-assail-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy/2018/10/09/be3ca22e-cc0a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.htmlBrett's plan to pocket the $600K GoFundMe was stopped by Judicial Ethics!
https://sports.yahoo.com/justice-kavanaugh-declines-600000-raised-gofundme-campaign-204550626.html
Georgetown Prep after the Smear
On the afternoon of Thursday, September 13, as parents arrived at our school to pick up students, a journalist from a major network camouflaged herself among them, avoiding identification at our front gate. She was subsequently found snooping around the halls of our main building and was escorted off campus. She later apologized.
But others soon followed. One reporter from a national newspaper deceived his way into our library so that he could rummage through old yearbooks. Some of our alumni had news crews staked out in front of their houses. Reporters were even harassing their elderly parents, tracking down home addresses and banging on doors, demanding interviews.
Journalists phoned us by the dozens, mostly demanding to know how long we had presided over a circus of drug and alcohol abuse, misogyny, and criminality. At least these reporters gave us the courtesy of a call. Many other national media outlets simply ran archly critical stories without bothering to contact us at all.
This was all necessary for American democracy, some of them explained, since one of our graduates had become a Supreme Court nominee…
If there has been any self-reflection from the press in the aftermath of their barrage, it has been hard to find. We’ve seen no contrition for the harms caused to many wholly innocent people, no apparent concern for how the haranguing may have affected our community or the young people in our care.
The Supreme Court says new Justice Brett Kavanaugh won’t take the traditional walk down the courthouse steps after his ceremonial installation on the court because of security concerns.
Kavanaugh’s investiture ceremony is scheduled for Thursday morning in the courtroom. It is customary for a new justice to walk down the 44 marble steps in front of the building, accompanied by the chief justice. The moment provides a chance for news organizations to photograph the justice, since the courtroom event is closed to cameras.
Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Friday that the change is being made “out of an abundance of caution due to security concerns.”
Grassley Criminally Refers ANOTHER Kavanaugh Accuser to DOJ – Woman ADMITS Rape Accusation Was a “Ploy”
Brett Kavanaugh was previously questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee after an anonymous letter signed ‘Jane Doe’ alleged he and a friend raped an Oceanside, CA woman in a car.
The accuser, Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton, now admits it was a “ploy” and she just wanted to “get attention.”
Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms. Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original “Jane Doe” letter.
Ms. Munro-Leighton confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”; (2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Munro-Leighton%20Referral)%20with%20redacted%20enclosures.pdfThis is but one example of the high-pressure techniques used, that ultimately failed of/c.
“I’d worked late til 9:30 p.m., and there was a man who had been waiting for me at my townhouse in the rain in the dark for hours. And that, I will tell you, really scared me.” - Susan Collins
Fear is the greatest Fear wrote:
This is but one example of the high-pressure techniques used, that ultimately failed of/c.
Some other examples.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/10/19/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senators-death-threats-supreme-court/1696347002/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/man-threatened-senators-over-kavanaugh-916306She's a known figure in lib-publicity circles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401615.htmlJudy Munro-Leighton of Louisville began organizing protests three years ago (2002), before the war even began. The Louisville Peace Action Community staffed a booth two years ago at the Kentucky State Fair, she said, and supporters of the war stopped to berate them. That rarely happens now, she said.
"We get much more support," said Munro-Leighton, a history teacher who was among 100 people who traveled from Louisville on two protest-bound buses. "We even started an impromptu petition to end the war."
Wow, it's almost like with Anita Hill, when only 26% of USA women believed her! Of course, the history re-writers will try to change the narrative over the next decades.Majority U.S. Women: Democrats Used Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Accusations for Political Gain
The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that the majority of American women and men say Democrats were not genuinely concerned with the accusations of sexual assault made by Christine Blasey Ford, but instead were using the allegations and the accuser to score political points.
When asked, “Do you think Democrats were genuinely concerned about Dr. Christine Ford and her allegations towards Judge Kavanaugh, or were they just using the allegation for political purposes in order to block Kavanaugh’s nomination?” about 55 percent of all U.S. voters (including 55% of USA women voters) say the Democrats were “just using the allegations” to stop Kavanaugh from getting on the Supreme Court.
Despite the establishment media (MSM) and Hollywood’s “Believe Women” campaign, the vast majority of American voters — including 84 percent of women and 85 percent of men — say when it comes to sexual harassment allegations, the standards of the legal due process should be applied
https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HHP_Oct2018_Crosstab_Memo_RegisteredVoters.pdfThe Senate Judiciary Committee released its full and final report Saturday into the allegations of sexual misconduct against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, finding “no evidence” to corroborate them. The report is 414 printed pages long, of which 28 are the report itself and the rest are 53 exhibits. The report declares:
After an extensive investigation that included the thorough review of all potentially credible evidence submitted and interviews of more than 40 individuals with information relating to the allegations, including classmates and friends of all those involved, Committee investigators found no witness who could provide any verifiable evidence to support any of the allegations brought against Justice Kavanaugh. In other words, following the separate and extensive investigations by both the Committee and the FBI, there was no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault made against Justice Kavanaugh.
The report notes that the committee has referred several individuals to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation who seemed to have made false statements against Kavanaugh to the committee.
The report also notes that the committee is investigating former FBI employee Monica McLean for allegedly urging accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s best friend to change her statement disputing Ford’s account of an alleged sexual assault:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf414 pages to read wrote:
Committee investigators found no witness who could provide any verifiable evidence
Since they hid from the witnesses.
Ummmm ok
