Rand Paul breaks with Republicans as he doubts Trump supreme court pick

[turbinetree]

Source: The Guardian

Republican senator concerned by Brett Kavanaugh’s views on privacy but he has flip-flopped on a Trump nominee before

Breaking with many Republican colleagues, the Kentucky senator Rand Paul has revealed his concern over Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the supreme court.

Paul told Fox and Friends on Sunday he was worried Kavanaugh, a judge on the DC circuit court of appeals, could cancel out supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch’s vote on fourth amendment cases and allow the federal government to collect the phone records of millions of Americans.

Kavanaugh’s confirmation rests on a knife edge. Republicans hold a 51-49 advantage in the Senate. They need a simple majority or a tie broken by Vice-President Mike Pence to confirm Kavanaugh as Trump’s second supreme court pick, after Gorsuch.

With John McCain absent through illness and Democrats promising all-out opposition to a pick that could tilt the court to the conservatives for a generation, public attention has focused on three Democrats facing re-election in Republican states and two moderate GOP senators. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are considered possible opponents of Kavanaugh, based on his position on abortion rights.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jul/15/rand-paul-trump-supreme-court-pick-brett-kavanaugh

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Lets not forget that this same person decided with his other jerks to vote on a person that should not have been given squat or consideration to sit on the bench because a prior man was denied due process in the advise and consent of the Constitution by a president.....................so this coming out on privacy............is a smokescreen in my opinion...............and what he has been saying as of late on Russia.............

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/07/us/politics/gorsuch-confirmation-vote.html




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote

[theaocp]

1. Red meat to his idiot followers.

Nothing more. He'll bow his head. Just another beta from the conservative side.

[aggiesal]

2. This is just his strategy to ...

get some concession or legislation passed, for his vote.

Rand Paul Standard Operating Procedure.

[LonePirate]

3. Ignore this nonsense. Paul will vote yes to confirm him.

[thesquanderer]

17. Of course he'll say yes. He just wants to be taken out to dinner first. (n/t)

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Ayn Rand Paul Ryan are all in the same bed

This is just like McCain waffling, then going hard right over the years

[nevergiveup]

5. The odds of Paul not voting for Kavanaugh are

one in a gazillion.

[BigmanPigman]

6. No one buys your BS anymore Paul!

[dawg day]

7. Rand Paul also says he's going to Russia.

Presumably to help tie up a few loose ends for Trump?

[groundloop]

8. Sorry Rand, I don't believe you. We've seen this song and dance numerous times.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Fuck you Paul! You're just whining for attention and taxpayer dollars. You'll vote to confirm him.

[Calista241]

10. I think this is a giant fake out.

Designed to put pressure on red state Dems.

[turbinetree]

13. My guess is your right....................after all this was a vote of constitutional hypocrisy

at its finest.......................in full display...............they didn't need any stinking constitution, they just made up there own.........

all the yea's, every last one of them............................

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/07/us/politics/gorsuch-confirmation-vote.html

[cstanleytech]

11. Paul wants something then and as soon as he is given it he will vote for the guy, nt

[lagomorph777]

12. Yeah yeah yeah

Sure, until it's voting time.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

14. His usual attention seeking BS. We've seen this movie before. nt

[kimbutgar]

15. He's just doing his usual grandstanding

And Then if the vote occurs he will be in lock step with his fellow repukes.

[dchill]

16. What, again?

He'll come around.

[ancianita]

18. Rand Paul, the doubting sellout.