Breaking Brett

[Nevilledog]

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/breaking Brett


LAST WEEK, the Texas State Legislature passed one of the most repressive antichoice laws in the history of our nation. The fine print is so hateful, so anti-woman, so infuriating—six weeks? $10,000 bounties? Enforcement by private citizens?—that one could be forgiven for believing the law was the dread work of the Taliban, not American citizens with degrees from the University of Chicago Law School.

The Supreme Court had the option to stay the enforcement of the law. It did not. After a day of excruciating silence, the Court voted 5-4 to let it be, citing some pusillanimous procedural technicality. Chief Justice Roberts sided with the three “liberal” justices, but the five other Federalist Society stooges on the bench—Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh—gave Texas the green light to go full Fascist, thus confirming what most of us feared all along: that Roe v. Wade is not safe, that the government is at war with women, that the radical Catholics who took over the Court are pro-tyranny.

As Moscow Never Sleeps detailed in these pages last year, there is nothing we can do about Barrett, Alito, or Gorsuch, and not much we can do about Thomas, unless various oversight committees have the stomach to make his wife Virginia Lamp Thomas’s life in the fundraising/non-profit world not worth the headache.

But Kavanaugh is different. There is a clear playbook to removing him from the bench. And this is what must be done. Not because we don’t like his politics, although we don’t; not because we think he’s an asshole, although he is; not because he had a hissy fit at his confirmation hearing, although he did. No, we must remove him because at least twice in his life, some unknown entity endowed him with major infusions of cash, and Kavanaugh lied, under oath, about the provenance of that cash (he said it came from his Thrift Savings Plan)—and about several other things besides. He’s compromised, six ways from Sunday, and we simply can’t have that on the Supreme Court, no matter which way he votes. Like the wife of Caesar, the Nine must be above reproach.

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[leftieNanner]

1. THIS - without question

He should absolutely be impeached and removed from the bench.

But how?

There are no "better angels" in Mitch McConnell's caucus, or in Mitch himself.

[gab13by13]

2. He certainly was not properly vetted and

information may have been deliberately withheld. It needs to be investigated, now.

[True Blue American]

12. They have proof Brett was not vetted

Many complaints against him not checked.

[Hortensis]

16. Absolutely. Democratic senators even presented proof in

the hearing and demanded it be investigated, but the Republicans held the majority. The people sowed in 2016, and this is what they reaped.

Over 100,000 pages of documents related to Kavanaugh's activities, mainly during W's presidency, were turned over by the Republicans/Bush to an attorney to legally keep hidden from investigators. Democrats explained this and the need to obtain those records before and during the hearings.

For years Kavanaugh was the kind of dirty agent the politicians at the top were kept carefully insulated from, "plausible deniability." When the Republicans were only very corrupt, Kenneth Starr's swiftboat activities didn't just ruin Starr's chances to be on the high court but his legal career; they shuffled him out.

Some years later corruption was so immense and so gotten away with that the Republicans hid and destroyed records and did whatever else was necessary to get his assistant Kavanaugh a lifetime appointment to the federal appellate court (Democrats blocked him twice and lost the third time.) And then continued the shuffle of their dirty agent to SCOTUS.

[2Gingersnaps]

28. Christopher Wray needs very close examination.

Speaking of Federalist Society stooges. It was like Al Capone getting elected and castrating Elliot Ness in front of God and everybody. The DOJ was turned into Roy Cohn and Associates, and the FBI was neutered.

[Wednesdays]

3. Yet another Hail Mary idea that will go nowhere.

[Budi]

4. Not with the odds stacked against us as they are.

Like the 2 Trump impeachments, the process should be brought forward regardless.

[empedocles]

15. Yes!

[gopiscrap]

17. agreed

[crickets]

18. Agreed. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Besides, it's the right thing to do. Kavanaugh was never properly vetted.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Or expand the Court, cupping our ears and paying no attention to the media blowback

The media was far too kind to Trump and his appointees and they would most definitely disfavor the expansion.

Take the bull by the horns and do it because fighting fascism isn't political, it's existential.

[lagomorph777]

6. We must expand SCROTUS or the fascist takeover will be completed.

[calimary]

13. Yes indeed, my friend!

YES INDEED!

It's absolutely URGENT that we start thinking strategically like the GOP does. And then ACTING ON IT. Gloves - OFF. Hesitation - GONE. Ruthlessness - a MUST.


Dems must STOP bringing feather dusters to gun fights.

[luvtheGWN]

21. In my humble Canadian opinion,

Democrats believe the best in people.

Republicans believe the worst in people.

I've had this conversation with several friends: Do you think people are inherently good, or inherently bad? My answer has always been this: People are inherently bad, because they need to be TAUGHT to be good, and kind, and thoughtful of others. You know -- the Golden Rule.

Over and over and over again, I hear/read Democrats saying they can't believe the crap and downright awfulness of Republican lawmakers. Well folks, get real! Repubs get away with it because they know they can. And they don't give folks a choice between the common good and the all-too-common bad. They appeal to the baser, selfish instincts, and that -- to me, at any rate -- is why they far too often win.

It's way past time for Democrats to wield a much stronger, louder voice. And yes, be RUTHLESS.

[2Gingersnaps]

29. Thank you!

Nailed it. You have your own regressives up there. May they never sink their fangs into your lovely country they way they did ours.

[Joinfortmill]

7. 👍

[Mr.Bill]

8. It would require 67 votes in the Senate to remove him from the court.

Just like removing the President. If you came up with a video of him raping five year old girls while he strangled them, not one republican would vote to remove him.

[soldierant]

9. Yes. Here we are.

How do we get out?
And, IF we get out (it's far from certain), how do we avoid getting beck?

[Bondor]

10. How about this option...

...instead of impeaching him, how about if we indict him for perjury? I understand there is good evidence of that. Then the question becomes whether it is appropriate to have a convicted perjurer on the highest bench in the land.

[lagomorph777]

14. It would at least damage him.

[crickets]

19. Another excellent idea.

[NJCher]

22. that would go through the DOJ?

?

[Demsrule86]

27. I doubt it is possible first of all and that would certainly cost us the midterms and likely allow

another righty judge to be seated.

[Casady1]

11. The last two SC justices are the worst.

Here is the problem. Almost all of the RW supreme court justices are private school kids. All raised in upper middle class families with no exposure to our society as a whole. Also, all worked at the large law firms who only represent big business. Most I bet didn't meet an African American until they were out of law school.

As far as Barrett we are talking David Koresh cult stuff. Who has to get permission to marry her "boyfriend" from the cult they are involved in that should have been an immediate disqualification. She is a freakin' nutjob.

[momta]

20. K and fucking R!!!!!!

And the sooner the better!

[czarjak]

23. His wife and daughters Must defend him publicly!

[oasis]

24. Put media pressure on his smug ass and keep it there. nt

[DFW]

25. Charge him with perjury, and hold a trial

He's not a sitting president. If the evidence is there, indict him and hold a trial. If convicted, I guess he could still render his opinions from a jail cell, but Roberts would get him off of there somehow rather than preside over a court with someone like that as part of his Court.

If the Republicans still want him on the court after a perjury conviction, let them say so out loud, and show themselves for what they really are (not that any of that would surprise anyone--it's just easier to point to in future arguments).

[Demsrule86]

26. We won't remove Kavenaugh...the time to be worried was in 2016 and sadly that ship

sailed. There has never been a Justice who was successfully impeached as far back as I can remember and we don't have the numbers to do this.

[2Gingersnaps]

30. True that. Sadly.