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  1. 22 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The scary part of kavanaugh is that he and his temperament are 7 days away from a 30 year job.  He answers to no one at that point.  Not even the Chief Justice.   He never has to speak to Congress, the WH or the general public unless he wants to.

     

    Well, he's still subject to the impeachment process

  2. 12 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    If you asked me what “boof” meant under oath, I would have told you what it meant to me - pigging out at an all you can eat buffet like Gatti’s or Lucky Village. I should be strung up for perjury. Never heard of the others phrase before

    FWIW... That WOULD be perjury, as you would be giving testimony you knew to be false. You're supposed to be truthful, even if "I don't know" is your answer.

  3. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Well, that looks like another point to argue.

    Certainly expect another doozy of a week.

    Agreed. Seems sloppy from Grassley to not tighten up the language unless this is a tactic to distract more about what is and isn't credible while trying to run out his (again) arbitrary clock.

  4. Just now, Incredulity said:

    Anyone know what the "scope" of the FBI investigation is?  

    I would assume to be limited to one week there are specific instructions.  Anyone?

    I haven't read the doc yet but CNN reported that it is constrained to "current credible allegations", so there's quite a bit of gray area on whether or not it's just Dr. Ford's allegations or if it includes Avenatti's which DOES have a signed affidavit by the alleged victim who is a federal employee, but has not been recognized by the judiciary committee republicans.

  5. 4 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    if he didn't do this, he handled it all wrong yesterday.  I do not want a guy spouting things about democratic conspiracies, etc. on the supreme court.  He's a partisan hack that would make Scalia and Kagan blush. 

    Well see now, you're just making chrispy and sacky and all the red hats want him more

  6. 1 minute ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Sexual assault is a state crime. The President has no pardon power there.

    Unless there's a supreme court case coming up that Hatch even wrote an amicus brief on, that would extend presidential pardon power down to the state level?

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    The Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a 44-page amicus brief earlier this month in Gamble v. United States, a case that will consider whether the dual-sovereignty doctrine should be put to rest. The 150-year-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause allows state and federal courts to prosecute the same person for the same criminal offense. According to the brief he filed on September 11, Hatch believes the doctrine should be overturned. “The extensive federalization of criminal law has rendered ineffective the federalist underpinnings of the dual sovereignty doctrine,” his brief reads. “And its persistence impairs full realization of the Double Jeopardy Clause’s liberty protections.”

     
     

    Within the context of the Mueller probe, legal observers have seen the dual-sovereignty doctrine as a check on President Donald Trump’s power: It could discourage him from trying to shut down the Mueller investigation or pardon anyone caught up in the probe, because the pardon wouldn’t be applied to state charges. Under settled law, if Trump were to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, for example—he was convicted last month in federal court on eight counts of tax and bank fraud—both New York and Virginia state prosecutors could still charge him for any crimes that violated their respective laws. (Both states have a double-jeopardy law that bars secondary state prosecutions for committing “the same act,” but there are important exceptions, as the Fordham University School of Law professor Jed Shugerman has noted.) If the dual-sovereignty doctrine were tossed, as Hatch wants, then Trump’s pardon could theoretically protect Manafort from state action.

    Nah no reason he'd want Kavanaugh, who has written many opinions and papers in favor of expanding executive powers on the supreme court.

  7. 1 minute ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Someone can press charges against Kav at any time. SCOTUS justices arent unreachable in criminal or civil trial. 

    They are if the president pardons them, and then the recipient of said pardon was in a position to rule on the legality of a pardon.

  8. Just now, Buzzrock said:

    Fuck whoever leaked her identity.

     

    Yeah you're right, the guy who caused lifelong psychological damage to it is completely in the right. Fuck you for not believing her extremely credible testimony and not even giving her the dignity of a full fact-finding effort.

  9. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    And now I'm seeing the far right conspiracy sites running with a "Christine Blasey had over 50 sexual partners before college" slut shaming angle.  It will be here soon, just give the usual suspects an hour or so for the word to get out.

    Fucking troglodytes.

    That poor woman. She said in her opening statement that most feared stepping out in front of this freight train, and then getting splattered anyway. I can't imagine what she must be going through. Probably handling it more maturely than kavanaugh.

  10. Theory: Trump has been encouraging Kavanaugh to forcefully fight back. Kavanaugh will try to do so, and because he's a milquetoast pissant, will show his ass in the process. I think there's more shit to hit this particular fan, wouldn't be surprised if a formal investigation into perjury comes from this.

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