Brett Kavanaugh

Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings – Part Deux

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By soiling the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, the Democrats succeeded in soiling the rest of us.

From AP, “Showdown between Kavanaugh, accuser scheduled for next week.”

Republicans are forging ahead with plans for a Senate hearing they had hoped to avoid on a woman’s claims that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high schoolers, hoping to salvage the judge’s endangered Supreme Court nomination with a risky, nationally televised showdown between him and his accuser.

Republicans reversed course and agreed to the hearing in the face of growing demands by GOP senators to hear directly from Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, now a psychology professor in California. Their sworn testimony, certain to be conflicting and emotive, will offer a campaign-season test of the political potency of a #MeToo movement that has already toppled prominent men from entertainment, government and journalism.

**Part Deux

Democrats Borking At The Moon

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NPR reports, “Kavanaugh Looks On Path To Supreme Court Confirmation, After 4 Days Of Hearings.”

Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up four days of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The committee is likely to vote on Kavanaugh in about two weeks.

And nothing in this week’s often partisan-squabbling, protest-interrupted spectacle has changed the likely outcome: a party-line vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s elevation to the high court.

**bork [bawrk]
Word Origin
verb (used with object)
to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.

Origin of bork
1988, Americanism; after Judge Robert H. Bork, whose appointment to the Supreme Court was blocked in 1987 after an extensive media campaign by his opponents