Bar Association Calls for FBI Investigation

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/28/bar-association-calls-for-fbi-investigation/

Bar Association Calls for FBI Investigation

September 28, 2018 at 6:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

CBS News: “The American Bar Association has urged the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate to slow down the confirmation process for President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, until the FBI has time to do a full background check on the claims made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and other women.”

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. No weight

Or to little to late.

[Blue_true]

19. It could give Flake, Murkowski and Collins backbone.

I really think that Machin is a No and is trying to nurse the others along to that position.

[john657]

21. Manchin said yesterday he is voting yes. n/t

[Blue_true]

22. When did he say that? The last statement I read from him was after the meeting

with Donnelly and three republicans. After that he said that no one had made up their mind and that things were fluid. That did not sound like a yes to me.

[john657]

23. He said last night that barring any new compelling evidence,

he would vote yes.

[Blue_true]

24. Ok. nt

[Achilleaze]

2. k and r

[PA Democrat]

3. Call your senators and cite this letter

An excerpt from the letter:

"The basic principles that underscore the Senate's constitutional duty of advice and consent on federal judicial nominees require nothing less than a careful examination of the accusations and facts by the FBI," said Robert Carlson, president of the organization, in a Thursday night letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

"Each appointment to our nation's Highest Court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote," Carlson wrote. "Deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senate's reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/politics/kavanaugh-american-bar-association/index.html

[FloridaBlues]

4. Let's hope this request had some weight with the republicans

No small request since Kav repeatedly said the Bar supported him.

[joshdawg]

10. It won't. ABA is concerned with the law,

republicans don't give a shit about the law.

[G_j]

5. mmm..

"For 12 years, everyone who has appeared before me on the DC Circuit has praised my judicial temperament. That’s why I have the unanimous, well-qualified rating from the American Bar Association." -- Brett Kavanaugh, yesterday

"Here’s my understanding, if you lived a good life people would recognize it. Like the American Bar Association has, the gold standard." -- Lindsey Graham, yesterday

[PA Democrat]

6. I hope the media confronts some of Kavanaugh's biggest defenders

on camera with this latest information.

I want to see Lindsay do another meltdown for all of America to see.

[watoos]

8. Keep hoping,

the M$M is complicit, it has been reich wing for a good many years. The M$M enabled Trump to become president, along with Russia, why would it desert him now? More tax breaks are on the way, taxes on capital gains are going to be lowered still more and the first tax breaks made permanent. Trump is creating a booming economy by printing money, by increasing our debt 1 trillion dollars a year. Party hearty.

[PA Democrat]

9. Actually, I plan to do more than hoping.

Volunteering, contributing, making phone calls and writing letters.

Yesterday was a huge setback, but giving up is no alternative.

[watoos]

11. Now you're talking,

I plan to do the same. Putting our hopes on the M$M to do unbiased reporting isn't going to happen. The M$M controls the narrative and the narrative that I saw last night was that Ford was winning the debate until Lindsey did his speel and now it's back to he said she said. That's not my take, that's what the M$M was saying.

If we had an unbiased M$M it should have deluged us with the many reasons why Kavanaugh should never be considered for the SC, without the sexual abuse claims.

I apologize if I wasn't clear enough in what I was saying to you. I expect this monster to be confirmed which will lead to an attempt to shut down the Mueller investigation, which leaves all of us patriots with one big option; vote the bastards out.

[we can do it]

12. My plan too. And I'm on the phone all day today about Kav.

[watoos]

7. The committee will handle that letter

like I handle my junk mail, never open it.

Clarence Thomas has someone to shoot the shit with over lunch.

It's my opinion that our society may be less civil than it was many years ago. Remember the bible story of the man who slipped into his enemy's camp, slipped into the tent of his enemy at night while he slept. Instead of killing him he stuck his sword in the ground next to him so that he knew what happened. My Ford, those were the good old days when men were civil.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Best idea yet, I saw on Twitter. ABA temporarily suspend Kav's license ! (until FBI investigation)

[llmart]

14. Maybe the ABA has some complaints on this guy from the past.

The more recent past.

[LiberalFighter]

15. It looks like the ABA is not qualified to assess their own members.

[malaise]

16. Wow!

Say no to Kavenaugh

[BeckyDem]

17. Good. I am guessing this is unprecedented?

[kentuck]

18. Republicans will need to wait and see how their Leader feels about the ABA before....

...making a comment about it. If the trump compares them to the FBI, then their call should be ignored.

[Blue_true]

20. Their leader will call the ABA fake news, a den of angry democrats.

Or some bullshit like that.