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#Breaking: Senate Democrats are threatening to sue the National Archives to obtain documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughs career as a White House official during President George W. Bushs administration.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Huge and important
This should be on the news everywhere
The national media will not focus on this. They are too busy being distracted by trumps shiny object of the day.
triron
(22,011 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Cattledog
(5,917 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)talk is cheap especially now
threats mean nothing to trump or republicans
bluestarone
(17,018 posts)Get some blood flowing in our veins!!!!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,168 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)employed by a minority party who were denied the ability to stop this appointment by choice of the electorate. At least all those feckless asses on the left who decided not to vote power to them. .
But even a second's consideration suggests to me that, whoa, just maybe they wanted to delay for a week. That could be for a number of reasons, though, none of which I can name.
Can any of you? The assumed reason for not doing it last week seems to be their stupidity.
But back to my WHY? Can anyone her think of a compelling reason why they would have needed to do it last week?
And what dreadful failure will now be the result of missing that mysterious deadline that wasn't already determined by feckless asses in their great wisdom?
Delmette2.0
(4,168 posts)Schumer should have already submitted the FOIA request and started working on any lawsuit.
I don't think they are paying attention and anticipating any possible actions the R's could do. What is so hard about anticipating an early hearing date when the R's have been known to stall on issues then rush through hearings. Remember their healthcare bill?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)As for the assumptions on this thread that Schumer and the rest are all so profoundly less competent and knowledgeable than even the most clueless amateurs,... I truly cannot understand how anyone could come to that belief and even less why anyone would want to. But I'll leave those inclined to their thing.
old guy
(3,283 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,402 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)he cannot be allowed onto the court. just can't that's all.
Fullduplexxx
(7,868 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)gademocrat7
(10,665 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Bettie
(16,120 posts)even the ones I don't usually agree with!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)New Hampshire Man
(36 posts)will write a very strongly worded letter...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)triron
(22,011 posts)calimary
(81,432 posts)As they say in the Nike world: Just Do It.
DO it, DAMMIT.
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)LandOfHopeAndDreams
(872 posts)Meh
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)what are you waiting for...another tweet? Do something finally!
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)This is a critical moment.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)If not..........a whistleblower leak would sure be a boon for the country.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)bdamomma
(63,917 posts)we all need to fight back, or our children and grandchildren won't be living in a democracy no longer.