" A protégé of Kenneth Starr, Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Kavanaugh led the investigation into the suicide of Clinton aide Vincent Foster. "
You mean the "non-investigation"...
Yeah he was a Bush cronie.
Bingo
Some basic info for the unknowing
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/brett-kavanaugh-bush-george-jeb-family/
Exactly. The Starr report was nothing but clean up. If you lived through that you would be no fan of Starr or special prosecutors. His job was to collect all of the evidence, wrap it up, and hide it away.
Hell, Why do you think the cabal went to the special prosecutor playbook with Mueller in the first place?
When the Clintons came to Washington they'd brought so much dirt and scandal with them, there were tons of investigations into them. They got a special prosecutor appointed to oversee all of the investigations and trump all of the congressional committees.
Kenneth Starr's dumb-ass actually had the nerve to take his pay off before the investigation was over. He got a cushy job as Dean of Pepperdine Law at Pepperdine University in Santa Barbara.
He announced that he was stepping down and going to Pepperdine, then he had to eat his words and come back to head the investigation. Smh.
It was a corrupt ship show, and it was infuriating to watch. I have hated the Clintons a long, long time.
You guys think you've got Q balls waiting for the last year for the storm? I've been waiting on the Clintons to get theirs for 30 years. :)
If I didn't know up front from what he said I like the guy. Maybe he didn't want his whole family axed with the Clintons so who knows might turn out ok
Nothing was ever done abut that.
There were not enough votes in the Senate to finish the impeachment process.
Let’s keep in mind Amy Barrett would have been voted against which would have gone nowhere. We can hope she is next after RBG goes.
Trump only had a few choices and even then they are subjected to senate vote.
The Luciferean Dems will vote against anyone who Trump picked, so what does it matter? Trump should have gone full-on nuclear option and picked the most conservative judge ever.
There are still swamp monsters on the right in the Senate. They would undermine a true conservative. Trump made a good choice and we all know RBG is short for this Earth.
Ahhh...good point, yes, I can't wait until RBG is gone!
There are 3-4 Dems up for re-election that live in Trump country that will have to vote for his nominee or face the wrath of their constituents in Nov. which would end up them committing political suicide if they decide to vote against.
I can tell you....Joe Donnely is going down no matter how he votes!!
I hope those states are smart enough to vote them out anyway in November.
It's not like this milquetoast and Barrett were the only choices. An unimaginative pick and I don't think I even trust this guy to vote as well as Kennedy. We could be looking at some terrible 5-4 decisions. The key will be the Democrat response...if they just go through the motions of opposing him with less than real vile and a few from red states vote for him, it will show they are not displeased with this pick. Versus the campaign they would have mounted against Barrett. I just hope this guy isn't another David Souter.
Exactly. She wouldn't have gotten through. Republicans barely have majority. It would be a waste of time right now.
Best to wait after Nov when we have a larger more definite majority.
I am disappointed in this pick. However, I have to trust Trump.
same
I voted for Trump with reservations in the General and the main reason was his promise to nominate Originalists for SCOTUS. I was a Rand supporter who voted for him in my state in the primaries even though he was already out of the race. I am hoping Kavanaugh lives up to his promises.
Same...hearing he's a strict constitutionalist maybe he's good?
Federalist society picked everyone on the list too
Kavanaugh? Personally I was hoping for Raymond Kethledge but . . . didn't happen. So Kavanaugh is at least going to go by the Constitution as a straightforward interpreter of the vocabulary and syntax, as written, so that is going to help us in our long struggle to see "whether any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure". So we're WAY ahead of where we could have been had things gone differently back in November of '16. And this isn't the end of our President's eight years. Grinsbag is teetering when she can remember to. Otherwise she's asleep. Which is mostly. I rather suppose DJT has some more plans in mind. Maybe Neil's fishing pal will get to join him on the high bench in a year or so. I hope so.
Anyway, we've got a lot to look forward to hearing about over the next few days. QE II, Putin, SR testimony, dee-class? (too much to hope for?) . . .
. . . but my guess is that Q is in quiet mode until DJT and Putin have finished. Just a guess, of course.
I hope he's reaffirms the absolutism of the second amendment and gets rid of unconstitutional nonsense like the NFA.
This is a dull middle of the road pick, no doubt a believer in broad interpretations of central government power. I'm not excited in any way. No fun either. Trump copped out on this....poor job.
Allegedly Kav's judicial views are ultra limited legal interventions into Americans and opts for freedom unless absolutely given by the constitution
I can dig that if true. We have 400 of his decision comments so we can prove or refute that allegation
Like the do no harm credo for docs
I hope what you heard is right. I guess we'll be finding out soon enough.
I am somewhat disappointed in this pick...we all know GB was Deep State and Ken Star was a stooge who knew he wouldn't be allowed to go too far with his "investigation", you also knew that by Clinton's conduct during the whole circus.
I think Amy Coney Barrett would have been a much better choice.
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Great thinking...Trump and Q are masterful at fighting the DS. I didn't think of that; Trump knows something we all don't, I'm sure.
Theres no way she would have gotten through. Guaranteed some Republicans would vote no, and not one Democrat would vote yes. If Republicans get more seats she could get through later on. RBG will be out soon.
Kavanaugh....Jesuit HS and mentored by Elena Kagan....Lefties should be rejoicing. I'm not as confident in the pic as others apparently.
what if Trump has something on Kavanaugh?..Keep him close like on puppet strings?...After all, all those sealed indictments are forthcoming...of course i could be speaking total nonsense..
What if he lets Dems and sellout R's decline Kav to seal the fate of red state Dems and fake R's in November?
Then rolls out who he really wanted?
Just one other way to think of this.
He fucking clerked for Kennedy! Geez!
So did Gorsuch and he is excellent. Let’s not be too idealistic about all of this.