U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

that's a lotta tickets

the classic problem all good baseball-loving americans can definitely relate to and absolutely should NOT question any further https://t.co/Akx14OuwW8 pic.twitter.com/zbHTTZQuBo

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 11, 2018

i do not understand the economics of admission to your yankee 'based ball' games but that seems... suspicious

Na na na, fuck anyone giving the same hiring parameters to a jewish woman who went to law school in the 1950s to a white man who got his JD in 1990.

White men need to feast on themselves before even thinking about it.

lol at the "friends finally paid him back" explanation. like hey guys no really....i know you're good for it anytime but i kinda need the cash right now....

who among us has not been super-chill about friends leaving us six figures in the hole for baseball tickets and just being all luck 'pay me back whenever dudes, nbd'

Na na na, fuck anyone giving the same hiring parameters to a jewish woman who went to law school in the 1950s to a white man who got his JD in 1990.

― Yerac, Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:54 AM (eighteen minutes ago

ok man

OK dude.

And yeah, I am too lazy to look it up what they are forced to disclose upon scotus start but it is relatively easy to track financial transactions between accounts, to include brokerage, although he doesn't seem financially savvy enough to have real investments.

Corey Robin suspects that Kav's fan club is embarrassed by his "poverty" (thread)

1/ The way we talk about money, debt, and wealth in this country fascinates me. This article about Kavanaugh's financial situation is a good example. https://t.co/QKXI5Ksn33

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 12, 2018

I was baffled that that was "breaking news" or even "newsworthy", like it has no bearing on anything wgaf

breaking news, Kavanaugh left bad tip at Noble Roman's in 1983

I think it's a little weird that he's so bad with money. On most background checks it is a red flag.

Good point, he should hold out for President.

Give him some time to rape someone first.

Are people really buying this bullshit baseball tickets excuse? gmafb

no not buying it

friends not buying them was the problem iirc

lol

We are all truly fortunate that Jeffrey Dahmer did not attend Yale Law School

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) July 13, 2018

He's prolly a ticket scalper. That seems about right for this administration.

schumer continues to showcase his LBJ-esque mastery of the Senate

“I’ll be 71 years old in August, you’re going to whip me? Kiss my you know what,” said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) when asked if Schumer can influence his vote.

...But it could prove impossible for Schumer to persuade senators like Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana to vote against Kavanaugh. All three supported Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year, and all three say that their decision won’t be swayed by Schumer no matter what he does this year.

“My decision won’t have anything to do with Chuck Schumer,” Donnelly said.

“I’m going to vote the way I’m going to vote regardless of what the leader says,’ Heitkamp said.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/13/schumer-supreme-court-fight-centrist-democrats-716654

please do tell us what mysterious leverage he has over these ppl that you know about but that Chuck Schumer doesn't

Senate of today is a v different place from the Senate of 1958

I mean that article isn't bad but it's got a sensationalistic headline designed to make him look as weak as possible. The reality is that if he's going to get any of those Red State Democrats' votes, they're not going to be protected in their home states by saying they were just doing what the Majority Leader told them too, they're going to frame their votes as being bold voices of independence/"the right thing to do" - because that's what will play better with their voters. Schumer can't help them win their elections by telling them what to do/cracking the whip, and he knows this. Everybody in the party knows this.

I think the most he can do to threaten them is withhold fundraising support for their elections, but that's not in his interest either, he needs those seats. If he has any other material that he can cut any deals with, it won't be done publicly, it'll be done behind closed doors - I guess he could promise them something based on the contingency that if they vote "no" and then they magically get back the Senate majority he could promise them something on bills, committees, etc. but that's a pretty empty promise at this point.

At this point Manchini voting YES for Kavanaugh would surprise me. He'll likely win re-election.

With the addition of Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court would have five reliable votes — also counting Gorsuch, Roberts, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas — to effectively overturn Chevron and complete the 30-year judicial assault on business regulation. In the future, even a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress would find it difficult to enact major new regulations. More than the travel ban and the tariffs and the tax cuts, that is likely to be Trump’s most enduring economic legacy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/11/how-this-supreme-court-pick-could-cement-trumps-real-economic-legacy/?utm_term=.e1704f94d00f

Can he just fucking die

oy

https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/alleged-russian-troll-farm-seems-to-be-one-of-brett-kavanaughs-biggest-fans/

kavanaugh once suggested that the court was wrong to force nixon to hand over the tapes that proved his guilt:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-watergate-decision-might-be-wrong/

The Hill reports:

The Democratic push to get documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s work in Bush administration ran into a new roadblock on Friday.

The National Archives, in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), said it will only respond to a request for documents under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) if they come from a committee chairman, who are all Republicans.

The National Archives and Records “remains unable to respond to PRA special access requests from ranking minority members,” Archivist David Ferriero wrote.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/400274-national-archives-rebuffs-democratic-request-for-kavanaugh-documents

wait I thought that happened last week

anyway this stuff is clearly a delaying tactic on the part of Schumer and Feinstein, can't blame them for trying. anything to push the vote to after the November election

This wouldn't have happened had Nino not died.

"He's a mainstream judge. He has a record of judicial independence and applying the law as it is written," Grassley said in a statement

Any matter of law that reaches the Supreme Court requires far more than reading the law and applying it. If it were that simple, it would not need adjudication at that level. Grassley already knows this, because if he doesn't know t he isn't even remotely qualified to be chair of the Judiciary Committee. He is knowingly spouting pure horseshit.

NB: US Senators are fond of calling themselves The World's Greatest Deliberative Body. Strange to say, no one else does.

A source close to Susan Collins' office tells me she pre-approved Kavanaugh before Trump ever nominated him. Don't count on her to be the savior of Roe v. Wade https://t.co/ZAdXNNju3P

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) August 31, 2018

Massive document dump on Friday and last night. So....why would the Dems show up today?

Rhetorical question about wimps

good luck usa

Sheldon Whitehouse is on fire right now.

"The Roberts Five" -- damn. The Dems have a campaign slogan for November. Whitehouse has framed the Roberts Five like they were the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse during the FDR era.

When he's approved and things get worse they'll have to come up with a new nickname. The Malevolent Six?

it's the Sinister Six, don't you know your spider-man villains

Kavanaugh looks pissed. I'm delighted.

Friends with Cruz for 20 years, that'll sure prove his independence.

Wow, here's Kavanaugh giving @fred_guttenberg a contemptuous look before turning his back on him. Guttenberg's daughter was killed in the Parkland gun massacre pic.twitter.com/Fz9e0gwytv

— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) September 4, 2018

Here's clip via @cspan. pic.twitter.com/bHvebCY2zc

— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) September 4, 2018

It's catching on:

Democrats already running FB ads on the Guttenberg-Kavanaugh moment. Am told there will be Instagram and Twitter ads too pic.twitter.com/0u6wjGyAeS

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 4, 2018

don't think that'll pick up too much steam in the places where it counts.

there's also plenty of footage of feinstein rolling her eyes at protesters all day

Also: Gorsuch is creepier looking than Kavanaugh.