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Every Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding a delay in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, writing to Chairman Chuck Grassley that "given the possibility of criminal wrongdoing by the President, doubts that Judge Kavanaugh believes a president can even be investigated, and the unprecedented lack of transparency regarding this nominee’s record, we should not move forward with hearings on September 4th."
"Over a dozen of the President's Cabinet members and senior aides have resigned, been fired, or withdrawn as a result of corruption, scandal, and allegations of criminal misconduct," they write. "The lack of due diligence that candidate and President Trump has displayed in selecting advisors and judicial nominees should give every Senator pause."
They point out that "he may also be called upon to decide whether this President should face investigation or possible indictment for criminal wrongdoing," since Trump is now officially an unindicted co-conspirator and everything. They also point out that "97 percent of Judge Kavanaugh's White House record is being withheld from the public and more than 94 percent is being withheld from the Senate."
Democrats are hoping that all this—and the news that Kavanaugh was a huge partisan who leaked like a sieve in the Starr investigations of President Bill Clinton—will help them make a dent in the united Republican front on Kavanaugh. Or nearly united: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski is sounding unenthusiastic.
But the remainder of Republicans seem still intent on steamrolling the unindicted co-conspirator in chief's Supreme Court pick through the confirmation process before that "unindicted" status changes. That's despite the fact that even a Fox News poll can't drum up support for Kavanaugh with the voting public, and he's got the lowest public support for a SCOTUS nominee since Robert Bork.
Mitch McConnell and Charles Grassley clearly feel the need to rush this precisely because of the bad news on the Trump criminal enterprise front this week—they've got to get this one done before the worst becomes public. Because they have absolutely no qualms about siding with the traitor.
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