Bernie Sanders Predicts Supreme Court is Headed for a Crisis

[Uncle Joe]

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Wednesday that he believed the Supreme Court was headed for a legitimacy crisis after Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh accused Democrats at a hearing last week of seeking revenge on behalf of the Clintons and of animus toward President Trump.

In an interview with Alexander Burns of The New York Times, Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said Judge Kavanaugh had exposed himself as a “right-wing Republican” who “thinks the Democrats are against him.”

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Mr. Sanders spoke candidly about that concern and others in a wide-ranging interview at the University of Maryland, where he also repeatedly urged college students in the audience (and watching on live streams) to register and vote in the midterms. The conversation was part a series called Get With The Times, which aims to inspire students to become involved in issues that matter to them.

“The times are too dangerous for you to sit it out,” Mr. Sanders said. “You’ve got to get involved, and you have to participate in any and every way you possibly can.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/politics/bernie-sanders-midterms-voting.html

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Glad to see Bernie out front on these issues... not bad for a guy who's not a Democrat.

[Bluepinky]

2. I know! Love his style.

[dlk]

3. The Supreme Court Has Been Heading in this Direction for Awhile

Kavanaugh is the latest development in a decades- long game plan.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I agree dlk but Kavanaugh is absolutely blatant about his partisanship, his statue

of Lady Justice is wearing no blindfold and the scales are arrogantly tilted.

He doesn't even pretend to be an honest broker.

[StevieM]

5. Well said. The problem at the Supreme Court goes well beyond Kavanaugh. (eom)

[BeckyDem]

6. Yes. That is what is so terrifying about this latest confirmation.