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Current hot mic discussion: They don’t seem to understand or agree upon whether a vote happened or what it was. This looks like pure chaos.
What I think I heard is that they voted to send #Kavanaugh to the floor for confirmation vote, HOPING that @senatemajldr waits for a week to vote, but with no assurance of any kind. If so, based on what he’s said, there’s no way McConnell waits and nothing to stop him if he won’t
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Is it petty of me to point out that if you zoom in on the top of the slats in his picture, the shape of the points is totally different from the inset image of the big points? Whoever made that graphic could have spent an extra 5 minutes to at least make it consistent
IT architects and engineers often deride “Design by PowerPoint.” In this case, I think it may have been literally true. And this person gets a D- in their Powerpoint skills
Here, @realDonaldTrump, I fixed it for you. I overestimated slightly... it took me 4 minutes 25 seconds in PowerPoint to at least make your design minimally consistent. Still totally useless and ineffective, but at least the shapes of the points actually match #DesignByPowerPoint
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This is a key point to jurists that I think many "civilians" don't quite get. We've gotten used to conflating ideology with party affiliation in the US, in an intellectually lazy way — but in the judicial branch, the distinction is CRITICAL. It's the only branch where ideas… /1
…still matter. Honest. Judges can range from liberal to conservative, or have philosophies of jurisprudence that fall into various recognized buckets, but they don't identify in a formal way as Democrats or Republicans. Leaning conservative in a way that supports GOP… /2
…policies, values, and initiatives is one thing. That's not what #Kavanaugh displayed last week. He identified the Democratic Party as his enemy, accusing it of orchestrating a campaign to sabotage him personally, even naming names (Clinton, incredibly) — and vowed payback /3
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Kavanaugh / Mark Judge & blackouts

"One of the trickiest things about blackouts is that you don’t necessarily know you’re having one. I wrote a memoir, so centered around the slips of memory caused by heavy drinking that it is actually called 'Blackout'"
nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opi…
Here is a lonely tweet diving into the issue of Kavanaugh's blackouts by looking at that calendar ...

Who Won, Anyway?

@notclimatebrad makes a great point with this tweet
The calendar and yearbook are referencing Kavanaugh attending an Orioles double header but for some reason ... Kavanaugh doesn't know who won.

A link to the tweet & the science behind blackouts with loss of memory after heavy alcohol consumption

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By raging he's being framed by a Clinton revenge plot conspiracy, Kavanaugh echoed Trump propagandists discrediting Mueller & Russia probe. That in itself is disqualifying from sitting on the Supreme Court. It also proves he won't be an impartial arbiter on those & other matters.
Forget the alleged sexual assault & lies for a moment. Kavanaugh's partisan rant about a left-wing smear conspiracy is so off-the-rails improper for someone whose job is literally to DISPASSIONATELY & fairly interpret facts & law before him. And he wants a promotion to SCOTUS??
Maybe #Kavanaugh's not a conspiracy theorist. But he is consciously echoing Trump. He altered strategy from choir-boy Fox interview b/c Trump didn't like it. Kav's already bending to the executive who named him, like the political operative he is at heart. And will be on SCOTUS.
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(1) My new #Kavanaugh thread, starting 9/28/18.

Long 9/22/18 thread:

Short 7/9/18 thread:

🦅"What is right will eventually triumph" -Reagan🇺🇸

#WomenForKavanaugh #WomenForTrump #VoteGOP #WalkAway
(2) So things have been clear as mud for a few hours. I will attempt to explain what I think is happening. I am not worried about eventually winning this thing. Not at all.

(3) The FBI is merely updating the file. It is not investigating a crime, bc no one has provided a date, time, place, or ANY substantiating or corroborating evidence. We already know that Ford's 4 supposed witnesses deny her *claims*.

Please remember: A claim is just a claim.
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Prepared Written Testimony of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh Nomination Hearing to Serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court September 27, 2018 (submitted September 26, 2018)
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Members of the Committee: Eleven days ago,
Dr. Ford publicly accused me of committing a serious wrong more than 36 years ago when we were both in high school. I denied the allegation immediately, unequivocally, and categorically. The next day, I told this Committee that I wanted to testify as soon as possible, under oath,
to clear my name. Over the past few days, other false and uncorroborated accusations have been aired. There has been a frenzy to come up with something—anything, no matter how far-fetched or odious—that will block a vote on my nomination. These are last-minute smears,
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Based on what I heard — and didn't hear — from Judge #Kavanaugh at his hearings, and having reviewed his writings and record as a judge, I believe any reasonable person would have cause to be concerned, even fearful, of his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

I will vote no.
My decision is based on:

1) his judicial track record
2) his equivocation on whether presidents should be investigated while in office, even though he investigated President Bill Clinton for Independent Counsel Ken Starr, and
3) what little we have seen of his White House record
Further, this whole process has been outrageous.

My request to meet with Judge #Kavanaugh before the hearings began was denied by the White House. I joined @JudiciaryDems in requesting a modest postponement so I had adequate time to review his full record – that was also denied.
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