Juan Williams: Trump, the Great Destroyer. Ed Krassenstein sur Twitter : "To all the Democrats who are attacking @MichaelAvenatti as being the cause for Kavanaugh's confirmation, just shut up! Avenatti is an attorney and Julie Swetnick is an alleged victim who has a right to an attorney. Stop divi. Yahoo fait désormais partie dâOath. From ELLE After Republican Senator Susan Collins announced she would vote "yes" to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice, plans were already in motion to find her replacement in the 2020 election.
According to Rolling Stone, a crowdfunding campaign created by the Maine's People Alliance raised more than $2 million in funds for the future Democratic opponent, prior the senator's speech. The Crowdpac was created in hopes to sway Collins' vote. Once it was clear that Collins would be voting "yes," the site was inundated with donations. Yahoo fait désormais partie dâOath. On Friday afternoon, Senator Susan Collins of Maine finally (officially) revealed that she intends to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
During a nearly 50-minute speech on the Senate floor, the Republican not only went on at length about the many reasons she wanted to confirm Kavanaugh — his judicial record, his tendency to refer to certain decisions as “settled precedent” — but she also betrayed the interests of the women and sexual assault survivors she professed to support.
Collins opened by discussing the Senate’s role in considering judicial nominees. Its job, Collins said, is to “focus on the nominee’s qualifications as long as that nominee’s philosophy is within the mainstream.” Then came the matter of the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, as well as Christine Blasey Ford’s recent testimony about the assault she says she endured during high school. User Data and Cookie Consent. This Will Be Susan Collins' Legacy. It took Susan Collins almost an hour of bullshit, disingenuous, pandering blather before she revealed, less than shockingly, she would betray Mainers, women and decency with her Kavanaugh vote - this, after thousands of heartsick, enraged Mainers endlessly wrote, called, visited, protested, chanted outside her office and otherwise pleaded she grow a spine and do the right thing.
Instead, wrote faith leaders here, "She has bartered her soul for a 'mess of pottage'....wielding her power against the very people who needed her to fight for them. " Now this, it is widely agreed, will be her shameful legacy. For many, as disturbing as her cowardice was her craven hypocrisy. From Twitter: "If I understood Susan Collins correctly, it's important to listen to women, then avoid eye contact and back away slowly until nothing changes...' 'I feel outraged, exhausted and betrayed': Kavanaugh nomination – the feminist response. Weeks of protest and dramatic days of testimony and speeches on Capitol Hill have brought the US to the point where ultra-conservative federal judge Brett Kavanaugh is now poised to join the supreme court.
Even Donald Trump said the woman who accused him of attempted rape, California university professor Christine Blasey Ford, was credible when she gave her raw but precise testimony to Congress, although he later mocked her at a rally. As Republicans voted on Saturday to confirm Kavanaugh, leading US feminists reacted to the development and talk about what’s next for America’s women. Explosion of Anger, Promises to Oust Her in 2020 After Susan Collins Says "Yes" to Brett Kavanaugh. Why are Republicans ramming Brett Kavanaugh on to the supreme court?
They blocked Barack Obama’s pick for the supreme court.
They threw in their lot with Donald Trump, a political neophyte and TV celebrity facing multiple sexual harassment allegations. It is entirely unsurprising that the Republican party seems ready to ram through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. Their logic: the end justifies the means. Republicans are aware that presidents, senators and representatives come and go, but supreme court appointments are for life. They aim to capture the court – with its power to shape abortion rights, worker protections and who gets to vote – for a generation.
President Donald Trump's winning streak. Only a re-election party on the night of November 3, 2020, could possibly offer the same vindication for America's most unconventional commander in chief as the 36 hours in which two foundational strands of his political career are combining in a sudden burst of history.
On Friday, Trump had celebrated the best jobs data for 49 years as the unemployment rate dipped to 3.7%, offering more proof of a vibrant economy that the President says has been unshackled by his tax-reduction program and scything cuts to business regulations. While his 2016 election campaign was most notable for swirling chaos and shattered norms, Trump's vows to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and to fire up the economy were the glue for his winning coalition. Eu.usatoday. Trump news: Jean-Claude Juncker MOCKED in attack on EU by President at Mississippi rally. Trump made the scathing remarks at the MAGA event in Southaven, where thousands of his core base turned out in support.
During the rally Trump launched a seething rant against Jean Claude-Juncker, citing the vast amounts of money the US has “lost” to the European Union as a result of trade tariffs. He said: “The European Union, we lost $151billion - with a B! - to you. Educated white women were already recoiling from Trump. Then came Kavanaugh. But Ford's detailed allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could allow Democrats to solidify an unprecedented advantage among those women, who represent one of the few steadily growing components of the white electorate.
Coming even as many professional white women are already recoiling from President Donald Trump's definition of the Republican Party, and Democrats have nominated an unprecedented number of professional women for Congress, the collision between Kavanaugh and Ford -- a professional herself -- has the potential to reinforce a lasting shift in loyalties that could tip the partisan balance in white-collar suburbs around America.
"College-educated white women have identified very strongly with Dr. Ford and relate to her as a person, and will be turned off by the angry diatribes of Brett Kavanaugh," says Democratic pollster Ben Tulchin. "This dynamic will likely further boost college-educated women's engagement in this election. " Lindsey Graham’s Brett Kavanaugh rant, and history with Trump, explained. After hours of emotional testimony from both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was ready to take a stand — and become Kavanaugh’s most impassioned Republican defender. In a lengthy, often-shouted statement, Graham declared that Democrats wanted to “destroy this guy’s life” and put him through “hell,” called Kavanaugh’s treatment “crap,” dubbed the hearing “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” and said Republicans who vote no would be “legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen.” As for Ford — of whom Graham said, 11 days earlier, “I would gladly listen to what she has to say” — he dubbed her a “victim.”
That is, a victim of Democrats, who weren’t “protecting” her. And in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show afterward, Graham went even further, saying he’s “convinced” Kavanaugh “didn’t do it” and that “Ms. American Politics Is Boofed. There have been other days—lots of them, actually, when you stop to count—over the past generation when Washington has had the nation gaping at its screens, squirming at the sight of private lives sliced open for public judgment while simultaneously thrilling to the spectacle of it all.
Those earlier are-you-watching-this?! Moments, when politics and culture collided on live television amid revelations and recriminations, were inevitably accompanied by furrowed-brow commentary gravely asking, “Where will this all lead?” Adam Best sur Twitter : "This Lindsey Graham temper tantrum is one of the most inappropriate things you will ever see from a Senator. Flipping out to try to shut down both accusers and his Dem colleagues was unsafe and unprofessional. #KavanaughHearings… Sen. Flake: Trump pleased with Kavanaugh testimony, White House says. Twitter Users Roast Donald Trump Jr.'s Attack On Christine Blasey Ford. HuffPost is now part of the Oath family. We (Oath) and our partners need your consent to access your device, set cookies, and use your data, including your location, to understand your interests, provide relevant ads and measure their effectiveness.
Oath will also provide relevant ads to you on our partners' products. Learn more. 'We're very confident:' Trump, GOP growing more bullish about Kavanaugh's survival. President Donald Trump is growing more confident that his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, can weather a charge of sexual assault and will be confirmed, according to two sources familiar with the confirmation process. The feeling is shared by some of Trump’s key Republican allies, even as controversy continues to rage over a sexual-assault allegation against the conservative judge. The White House and its allies have taken no steps to line up a new nominee, according to four people familiar with the confirmation process. Story Continued Below "We're very confident," one Republican in touch with the White House said when asked whether Kavanaugh will survive the firestorm.
Reaction Pours In After Trump Questions Kavanaugh Accuser Credibility. Trump stands up for men accused of abusing women (opinion) Trump calls new Kavanaugh accusations ‘totally political,’ stands by nominee. President Trump stood foursquare behind Brett Kavanaugh on Monday in the wake of new sexual misconduct allegations against his Supreme Court nominee, calling the uncorroborated claims “totally political” and “unfair.” The president addressed the latest twist to jolt the most chaotic Supreme Court confirmation process in modern times on the sidelines of the United Nations meeting in New York. “I am with Judge Kavanaugh,” Trump declared. “For people to come out of the woodwork from thirty-six years ago, and thirty years ago, and never mentioned it, all of a sudden it happened … totally political.”
The president, signaling the White House would dig in and defend Kavanaugh amid the onslaught of allegations, called the situation “one of the single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate.” The allegations at this stage have gone well beyond the sexual harassment claims leveled by Anita Hill against now-Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. Trump says allegations against Kavanaugh 'totally political' "And for people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago and 30 years ago and never mentioned it and all of a sudden it happens, in my opinion it's totally political," he said. "It's totally political. " Trump made the comments as he made his way into the United Nations building in New York for this week's UN General Assembly. The President's comments come at a perilous time for Kavanaugh and once again insert him into a controversy that many Republicans fear could jeopardize their standing with women ahead of the midterm elections.
Brett Kavanaugh: Trump’s nominee threatens the Supreme Court itself. The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination has become a crisis of conscience for America: a test of whether sexual assault allegations against a powerful man are taken seriously by the Senate, of just how real the broader post-#MeToo awakening is. But for the Supreme Court, it’s a sign of a different kind of crisis on the horizon: a crisis of legitimacy. The American public has long had a deep and abiding faith in the Supreme Court as the last say in our public legal disputes. This faith survived controversial cases, like Roe v. Getting to Know You: Brett Kavanaugh.