SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh lied in his confirmation-hearing in 2006. About GWB torture-policies.

[DetlefK]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-senate-patrick-leahy.html

The need to vet Judge Kavanaugh’s full record is all the more urgent because the last time he testified before the Senate, he appeared to provide a misleading account of his work in the White House. At his 2006 confirmation hearing, Senator Dick Durbin and I asked about his knowledge of several Bush-era scandals, including warrantless wiretapping, torture and detainee treatment. Judge Kavanaugh testified that he had no knowledge of such issues until he read about them in the newspaper. But a year after his confirmation, press reports indicated that he had participated in a heated discussion in the White House over the legality of detainee policies.

The fact that a senior official in the Bush White House would be involved in such debates is not surprising. Indeed, Karl Rove recently described Judge Kavanaugh as playing a major role in reviewing and improving practically every policy document that made it to the president. Yet these accounts are impossible to reconcile with Judge Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony. Only with his full records will we know the truth.

Why are the Republicans so hell-bent on moving this nomination forward before Kavanaugh's full record has been scrutinized?

Was he involved in the attempts of the George W. Bush-administration to legalize some forms of torture?

[Achilleaze]

1. Of course he lied. He's a republican.

He'll work in nicely with the republican Perjurer General, and Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chier. They can all practice their republican lies together.

[ouija]

2. Vote to confirm

I honestly would, it would give cover to Red State Democrats. Then watch them scurry to dismantle Roe and the first chance we get, hopefully 2020, I would expand the court. The minute McConnell screwed Garland, any notion of any kind of fairness and decorum went out the window. We all need to realize there are no rules anymore.

[Achilleaze]

4. Vote to protect America. Deny this lying republican.

You confirm him, you are ratifying the KGOP russian-republican grip on the throat of American democracy.

You are also letting Comrade Dirty Donny* pick his own judge for his own impending cases of corruption and treason. That's just out and out unfair to the citizens of this great nation, and fundamentally unjust.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[joshdawg]

5. Absolutely agree!

kavanaugh believes that the president is above the law. That's the main reason trump nominated him.
They are both liars to the nth degree..............but then they are republicans who only lie, lie and lie some more.

[democratisphere]

3. redumbliCONS love habitual liars on the SCOTUS.

Liars act like them, so why wouldn't that support him?!

[monmouth4]

6. He strikes me as a worm/weasel. No redeeming qualities I can see...n/t

[JHB]

7. Why? Same reaso as Clarence Thomas, but with less smokescreen...

Their top priority is placing reliable conservative operatives on the court.

Ability and integrity are secondary concerns, mostly to get past the hearing, and with the presidency and senate in Republican hands they're not too worried about that.