A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans in a nice Chianti. Activity Activity Annotations Notes Edits. Sort Newest Best. Permalink Edit Editors Share Share this annotation:. Photos Media Bookmark. Flake's change of heart probably had a lot to do with this remarkable moment earlier in the day, which came just minutes after his office said that he would vote for Kavanaugh.
I have two children; I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl. What are you doing, sir? That they should just stay quite because if they tell you want happened to them, you're going to ignore them. That's what happened to me and that's what you're telling all women in America. We don't know, but the Supreme Court is meant to be an impartial, a political body.
After Kavanaugh's broad side against the democratic members, Deputy Chairman Dianne Feinstein questioned whether his kind of justice could indeed be blind? While republicans just wanted to get the vote over with. This was someone who was aggressive and belligerent. I have never seen someone who wants to be elevated to the highest court in our country behave in that manner. And I just have to say, let's be fair about this.
Let's vote whichever way we want to and let's - let's move on this. I personally am tired of all the games and all the gamesmanship that's been going on around not just this nominee but others as well. So, with me to discuss this from Washington is Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. She was in the room during Christine Blasey Ford's testimony yesterday.
And at one point broke in to tears. David Kaplan, certainly Senator Feinstein and a lot of the democrats obviously were completely - they expressed outrage at what Judge Kavanaugh said in his testimony yesterday. And he, they say, was unprecedentedly political in his self defense. I'm going to play you a little bit of what he said in his denial of all these allegations. Fueled with apparent pin up anger about President Trump and the election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons, and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.
But I - I think Judge Kavanaugh does protest a little too much. He may have needed to be as belligerent and as political as he was yesterday to win over the most important watcher of the day which was the president. He needed the president's support, and the president tweeted thereafter, and I think Kavanaugh did himself good with some republican senators who wanted to see Kavanaugh come out swinging.
But that is not judicial temperament, that is not what it looks like. And I think he did himself at that end a lot of harm. We tend to forget that stuff. Clarence Thomas has been a functioning member of the court for a quarter century. It hasn't done him a lot of institutional damage within the court itself. But the court does take a hi,t and I think Kavanaugh at least short-term takes a hit. But if the name of the game is getting confirmed, Kavanaugh was in a much better position after his testimony than beforehand.
Do you think he's in a better position now after his testimony? Yes, there was a whole sort of relief from his side of the aisle.
But after today, do you think that he can count on being confirmed? It was the most partisan statement I have ever heard from any nominee to any court. He sounded more like he was on the campaign trail as a political trying to get elected than someone who was being moved to the highest court of our country that is going to be confronting some of the most important decisions that affect the lives of millions of -- and rights of millions of Americans.
I was astonished by his - his demeanor. It was certainly not the demander of a courter that you would ever - you think that they're going to be balanced - or you hope. And look at the - at the issues, it was sort of - it was incredibly, incredibly partisan. And - and I thought incredibly inappropriate. And one of the reasons why you are seeing such a - a deep feeling across the country and during this confirmation process, the feelings are deep, they are strong and they are deeply divided.
And it is not good for the country. And about the women's rights, not just to be heard but also not to be ignored as the senator says. So, it's clear why women are very very concerned about this.
But that's why I want to ask David Kaplan again, because you seem to say that if he got on to the Supreme Court like Clarence Thomas, he may be - he may - this may not have any effect on his judicial thinking and processes.
But talk to me a little bit about how this justice is very different than Gorsuch, for instance. Gorsuch took over from like minded, Scalia. But Kavanaugh would take over from what's been considered a swing vote, and that is Anthony Kennedy.
Isn't it very very consequential who sits on the court and whether his temperament and his nonpartisanship can be vouched for, David Kaplan? He - he's been a part of the conservative political movement for several decades, worked in the Bush White House. He often was - was in effect the hatch man within the party.
Don't mistake him for someone who's lived in the ivory tower his whole life. And assuming he takes Justice Kennedy's seat, the court is going to shift right. Those predictions are correct. Chief Justice Roberts, a conservative as well will pass for the middle of the court. He'll become the swing justice.
But Kavanaugh will move the court to the right. I'm not so sure that he will explicitly vote to overturn Roe. Wade, but he will surely look to cut back on federal power, agencies like the EPA.
And that's really the holy grail for many conservatives. It's not social issues so much like abortion. Now, I think - I don't think Roe v. Wade will find a friend in Brett Kavanaugh to be sure. But they didn't really have one n Anthony Kennedy except for a couple of decisions a few years ago, and then back in when Justice Kennedy voted in the Casey opinion to uphold Roe v.
But I don't think Kavanaugh will necessarily vote to explicitly overturn Roe. I think he will nearly approve of a lot of anti-abortion regulations that various states pass. I'm not sure. Justice Thomas is still angry over his hearings. And I report in the book 30 years later, he's enraged over it. But he was a conservative when he went on the court, and did he turn further to the right as a result of his hearings?
I don't think so. I think Kavanaugh's judicial views; his ideology is pretty much set in stone now. Very few of Kavanaugh's have been put toward.
FBI investigations used to be proforma. But for the allegations against him, they have not been investigated, and all these allegations coming in from women that - they're not being listened to. They're not being looked at, they're not being investigated. They - I thought - I thought Dr. Ford's testimony was incredibly moving, especially when she talked about why she couldn't understand why she needed two doors in her house.
She and her husband had to go to someone to help her think it through and it came back to Brett Kavanaugh and feeling that she was going to be killed by him and running out of the door and needed another door to run in to. So, I think that a lot of women have had these types of experiences and no one has listened to them. And when they do talk, they are rewarded like she is.
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