McConnell issues Supreme Court ultimatum

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


The Senate GOP leader is vowing to squeeze Democrats with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh right before the midterms if they don’t back down on their demand for documents.

By ELANA SCHOR and BURGESS EVERETT 07/20/2018 05:00 AM EDT

Mitch McConnell has a warning for Democrats demanding copious documents on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Be careful what you wish for.

The Senate majority leader privately told senior Republicans on Wednesday that if Democrats keep pushing for access to upwards of a million pages in records from President Donald Trump’s high court pick, he’s prepared to let Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote slip until just before November’s midterm elections, according to multiple sources.

Delaying the vote past September would serve a dual purpose for McConnell, keeping vulnerable red-state Democrats off the campaign trail while potentially forcing anti-Kavanaugh liberals to swallow a demoralizing defeat just ahead of the midterms. Senators said McConnell believes the Democratic base will be “deflated” if they raise hopes of defeating Kavanaugh only to lose just days before the election.

Democrats have no intention of backing down in their call for maximum transparency about Kavanaugh’s record, but the GOP is betting that they’ll start to sweat the Supreme Court timeline as the summer wears on.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/kavanaugh-supreme-court-mcconnell-ultimatum-senate-democrats-734360

[Achilleaze]

1. Most Americans don't want to let republican traitors pick their own judge

so I got a feeling this will blow back in McConnell's lying face

[Justice]

2. I'd respond with this - what is Mitch trying to hide in Kavanaugh's records?

[raging moderate]

3. I will drag my deflated self to the voting booth this fall.

Mitch McConnell is truly deluded if he thinks that anything he can do will stop me from voting to support the Democratic Party. We all watched, for eight years and especially in 2016, as Mitch McConnell and his criminal gang violated the United States Constitution to block the duly elected President from appointing federal judges. We know it is pretty inevitable that Kavanaugh will be the next Supreme Court justice, and we know why. I will crawl over broken glass, if necessary, to get there. Tell the Democratic members of Congress that we can see they are doing all they can against this neo-feudalistic conspiracy, and Mitch McConnell's tricks will not lose any votes from real Democrats. USA! USA! USA! USA!

[kyburbonkid]

4. I agree. Those documents are important to an informed decision. Why rush it Mitch?

Or delay it? Does he think it matters at all? Seriously though, how can one even confirm a person picked by an illegitimate president.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Fuck you, Comrade Vladimir Turtle! You'll put forth a vote anyway!

[KPN]

6. Empty threat McTurtle. Pull your head back into your shell and STFU. We are the majority --

by far -- and we're coming after you.

[Calista241]

7. I think we're fucked.

From lower in the article:

"Even Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who's challenging endangered Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) this fall, cast doubt on the merits of forcing her to squirm over Kavanaugh's confirmation well into October. "I don't have any doubt in my mind that she's going to vote for him," Cramer said."

[Bayard]

8. Don't see a judge voted in

Who is nominated by an indicted president.

Come on Mueller!

[dalton99a]

9. I hope karma will give this traitorous pustulence what he deserves

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. Call his bluff!

Call his bluff!