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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere Things Stand on Kavanaugh
September 27, 2018 at 6:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook: Based on our reporting, it seems slightly more likely than not that Brett Kavanaugh will be a Supreme Court justice. Not by that much, but by a smidge.
Senior Republicans told us that a lot of attention is being paid to Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, but there are other serious wild cards like Jeff Flake of Arizona and others, depending on how todays hearing goes. GOP leadership has good situational awareness on Collins and Murkowski less so on Flake and no ability to predict how this hearing will go, and how viscerally people will react.
But today, we find ourselves at a moment where culture is a much more powerful force than conventional politics. The vote counting and partisan messaging that is the normal stuff of Capitol Hill and Washington is almost irrelevant compared to the way this episode is exposing sharp differences among Americans, based on their own life experiences, the prevalence of sexual assault and the notions of fairness in society.
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https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/27/where-things-stand-on-kavanaugh/
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Where Things Stand on Kavanaugh (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2018
OP
They need him on the bench to be the 5th vote in the gop's favor on the 1st case scotus takes
Fullduplexxx
Sep 2018
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bench scientist
(1,107 posts)1. I fear he will be confirmed
Locrian
(4,522 posts)3. so do I ....
The "win" is to great: a LIFETIME appointment. For that - they're willing to do anything by hook or by crook: there is no limit to what they're willing to burn.
underpants
(182,829 posts)4. He will
They can't miss this chance to put an operative on the court and they know it
Fullduplexxx
(7,864 posts)2. They need him on the bench to be the 5th vote in the gop's favor on the 1st case scotus takes
That's why all the talk of 11th hour sht