Judge Kavanaugh Confirmation Debacle

Judge Brett Kavanaugh -  Supreme Court Nominee

This is an analysis from a FB friend 
which deserves broad viewership. 

It is a succinct and lucid summary 
of the Judge Kavanaugh Senate 
hearings and issues.

Facts:

1)  Six FBI background checks over 25 years:
     No Negatives found.
2) 1,325 written questions from US Senators:
    No Negative Comments
3) 65 meetings with US Senators:
    The allegations were never mentioned
4) 32 hours of public hearings:
     No mention of the allegations
5) In US Senate Judiciary Committee Executive session:
    No reference to the allegations

Booker: aka: Spartacus 

6) Senator Cory Booker
     Made no mention the allegations
7)  At the time of this post [18SEP2918], the accuser continued to refuse to appear before the Senate Committee.
     -- No other witnesses will be allowed to appear before the Committee.

8)  The Washington Post published a hit piece mentioning a single, uncorroborated, allegation from 36 years ago, during Kavanaugh's high school days, and the Senate Committee must now delay or defeat Judge Kavanagh's nomination to the Senate for confirmation to the Supreme Court.

9)  Click here for Kavanaugh's biography

This is a disgraceful, partisan debasement of the 

US Senate and the confirmation process, and the 

fact that it was held until the eleventh-hour is 

suspicious, at best, and nefarious at worst!

To clarify, here is the Democrats timeline:

Senator Feinstein

• Dianne Feinstein, a Senior Democrat member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a written statement in her possession from a woman accusing Kavanaugh of misconduct when they were both teenagers, weeks before Kavanaugh ever came before Congress for hearings.

• Feinstein did not turn the letter over to the FBI, which would then have had the authority to discretely interview those involved and assess the allegation's legal ramifications for a public figure.

• Feinstein (and other Senate Dems who presumably knew about the letter) did not ask Kavanaugh about the allegations they knew had been made against him during the hundreds of hours of closed and open testimony and thousands of submitted questions.

• Feinstein held the letter until Kavanaugh's hearing was concluded and a vote for him was all-but-sure to pass nomination, and then first mentioned the letter during a press release to reporters - where the case would be litigated in the public arena, and not within the halls of investigative or deliberative bodies whose job it is to assess these claims.

• Because Kavanaugh was never asked about the accusations or his relationship with the accuser in days of questioning by the Senate, the Judge presumably had no idea what the allegations even were.
   a) The accusations lack a time, place, and circumstances
   b) making them all but impossible for Kavanaugh's defense
   c) Such accusations would never be admissible in a court of law!

Senator Grassley

• Feinstein did not cooperate with Republicans in setting up follow-up calls with the Kavanaugh accuser who accuser continues to ignore requests from Senator Grassley for a hearing.

• Feinstein and Senate Democrats refused to speak with Kavanaugh and the Senate Judiciary staff Monday after the accuser had gone public and Kavanaugh had forcibly denied the allegations.

The accuser's lawyer says it is not her client’s job to corroborate her claims against Kavanaugh
[a normal process in a court of law]

Every legitimate accuser should be  heard -- after investigation and verification;  and such cases should be  litigated to the fullest extent. However, the way Democrats have handled this claim has in no way benefitted the accuser, accused, or the greater Me Too movement.  
A court would throw out such an accusation for lack of evidence as well as the fact that the event allegedly occurred 36 years prior. The fact that the accuser is linked to the Hillary campaign and to the Steele bogus accusation degrades the accuser and the accusation. 

It smacks of political weaponization!



EDITORIAL NOTE:
Who is the accuser?

Christine: Now  --                                           36 Years Ago

Here's a summary

Judge Kavanaugh's Accuser

Notably, Christine Blasey's brother, Ralph III, worked for Baker Hostetler, the Fusion GPS law firm, for 15 years.

She is affiliated with Indivisible, an Alinsky-style Anti-Trump "Resistance Group" in Silicon Valley [their Facebook page has now been taken down].

Katz

According to Michael Collesano, her lawyer, Debra Katz, a defender of Bill Clinton's assaults on women, to include Paula Jones ["a 'one-time' incident"] is a board member of POGO, a Soros-funded organization.  She is currently representing Irwin Reiter [a Harvey Weinstein company executive]

Obama Returns Gitmo to Castro

Obama is giving Guantanamo back to Cuba

Click here for related article [The Hill: Krisitna Wong]

While we're distracted with electioneering, President Obama has been busily negotiating away Guantanamo.

But, but, but that's unconstitutional!

Now, those educated in the Constitution [e.g., Senator Cruz] will leap to the fore to state that mean old Barack Obama had better not negotiate a treaty with Cuba to return Gitmo to the Cubans.

Why, that would be unconstitutional, and EVERYONE who knows the Constitution KNOWS that the Prez absolutely, positively MUST consult with Congress and seek its permission before he engages in negotiating a treaty, or any kind of diplomatic engagement.

But, in reality, Obama needn't bother Congress with his current maneuvering.

I got three right.

At the moment, he's pressuring the review board examination of Gitmo prisoners to release more prisoners.

Over the next few months, the board will have released the majority of them, leaving a minimum group to be dealt with; and Obama doesn't have to have any visibility in the process.

I am omnipotent!

The moment of truth, however, will come when Obama dons his Military Commander in Chief hat, when he

1) Orders the Military to transfer the remaining Gitmo prisoners to Leavenworth Military Detention Barracks, and

2) Orders the Marine Commandant to ship back all Marines currently stationed at Guantanamo.

3) After a few weeks, Castro will fill the facility with Cubans, and it will become occupied territory by Cuban squatters.

4) Obama can  ignore Congress' demands to retake the facility until he leaves office on 20 January 2017, and his replacement would have to literally declare war on Cuba to retake the facility.

And Obama will have pulled off still another end-run around Congress.

It's a shell game, but wait and see.

Gitmo by 20 January 2017

This is how it will play out, and the US will have no further control of Gitmo, and Obama will have the last laugh.

Obama Threatens Supreme Court

"Supreme Court:  An Unelected Group of People who would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law."

Click here for related story [Washington Post]

Obama, a self-proclaimed Constitutional Scholar and Professor of Constitutional Law, according to his campaign rhetoric, apparently dismisses the role of the US Supreme Court in the structure of the US Government.

I will destroy the Constitution and the Supreme Court

He refers to the Supreme Court as "... an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law."

"I'm pretty confident this court will recognize that and not take that step."

Sounds like a threat to us.
And, he is beginning to frighten even his former supporters on the Left.

Buried in the Post Partisan portion of the Editorial Page is Ruth Marcus' column about Obama's less-than-veiled threat to the Supreme Court.

Ruth Marcus comments:
"And yet Obama's assault on 'an unelected group of people' stopped me cold.  As the Constitutional Law Professor certainly understands, it is the essence of our governmental system to vest in the Court the ultimate power to decide the meaning of the Constitution -- even if, as the President said, it means overturning 'a duly constituted and passed law'."

House initiates Impeachment; Senate Tries

Mr Obama may have been on the golf course the week or month that his mail-order course covered the role of the Supreme Court as defined by the Constitution.

Had he attended US schools K-12, he'd have learned in a Civics class the three functional parts of the US Government designed as a System of Checks and Balances to ensure the Separation of Power, i.e, no single Branch of Government would be more powerful than the other two -- the Founding Fathers especially did not want a king or a dictator.
 

1) The Legislative Branch -- creates the laws by which the Government manages
            the country
2) The Executive Branch -- manages the country according to legislation in place --
           and which occasionally sponsors legislation and sends it to Congress for approval.

3) The Judicial Branch -- reviews the legislation to determine if it complies with the
           Court's interpretation of the Constitution.


Mr Obama, having spent so little time in the US educational system, may be unaware that the Supreme Court is appointed [although he appointed two of the Justices (Sotomayor and Kagan)] rather than running for office in the electoral racket.  He apparently feels that the Supreme Court should 'answer to the people' -- but, the Founding Fathers created a Republic, not a Socialist State - to which Mr Obama seemingly aspires.  Thus, the Supreme Court is comprised of individuals selected, approved, and appointed through a painstaking process; once on the Supreme Court, they are no longer subject to political pressure from either of the other two Branches.

The only aberration in that process was when FDR, a Socialist Democrat, tried to expand the size of the Court and pack it with Leftists who would support his New Deal -- thus subjugating the Judicial Branch to the Executive Branch -- and violating the principle of the US Consttitution.

All of my opponents are Racists!
(c) Jookos.com

Then again, Mr 0bama has appointed 55 judges to the Federal Courts of Appeals -- ensuring that challenges to his Executive Orders or to ObamaCare would be rebuffed before they reached the Supreme Court.

The Left is correct in fearing President Obama.

The ObamaCare legislation includes clauses which give the President extraordinary and dictatorial powers --  to include manipulating the concept of Interstate Commerce to force citizens, under Criminal Penalty, to purchase healthcare.  [Those who do not have healthcare are now subject to heavy fines and criminal penalties.]

But, while the Supreme Court is getting ready to reject ObamaCare as unconstitutional, Mr Obama's Brown Shirts have been busy trying to take over state law enforcement programs [e.g., DOJ's attempt to dictate to Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, as well as attempting to coerce law enforcement programs in Seattle, Portland (OR), East Haven (CN), Newark, and even in Puerto Rico].

You may recall that he announced in his campaign his intent to form his own paramilitary force -- separate from the Department of Defense.  The provisions for that lie in his ObamaCare legislation.
[ http://spookdblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/obamas-private-army.html ]

We've previously commented on Mr Obama's attempts to control the Internet and Cell Phone communications as well as control access to personal and business cloud computing data storage.

1)  http://spookdblog.com/2012/03/blocking-cell-phones-and-internet.html

2)  http://spookdblog.com/2012/02/us-doj-poised-to-destroy-megadata-files.html

Those who forget history
are doomed to repeat it

We are concerned that Mr Obama is attempting to create an authoritarian government, quietly, one step at a time.

1) Gun Control
2) National Paramilitary Police
3) Alliances with Narcotics Cartels
       [Fast & Furious]
3) Authoritarian legislation
4) Creation of a Police State
4) Supreme Court intimidation
5) Massive inflation [soon to come]



For those who feel we are blowing the indicators out of proportion, we refer you to a brief account of the Weimar Republic.  Wikipedia is a good place to start.


If Ruth Marcus reflects the discomfort of the Left with Mr Obama, it would appear the Left may finally be beginning to take notice of the "Slippery Slope" Mr Obama is preparing.

Footnote:  
Today [14 FEB 2016] Supreme Court Justice Scalia was murdered in his bed while on a hunting trip in Texas.  His host, the owner of the ranch [John Poindexter] stated:
"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head.  His bed clothes were unwrinkled."
US Marshals would not allow an autopsy.