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Inside Kavanaugh's hearing prep: Mock hearings and faux protesters
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The White House is making last-minute preparations for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings next week, holding final prep sessions and setting up a pair of rapid-response war rooms.
Kavanaugh, a Washington veteran who worked for President George W. Bush and helped write the Starr Report, has called on his vast network to help him get ready for the hearings. His former clerks, lawyers from the conservative Federalist Society and even Republican senators have participated in nearly a dozen practice sessions designed to mimic the conditions of the often grueling hearings, according to a White House official.
On Monday, Kavanaugh participated in his last full moot court session, which lasted nearly the entire day. Sitting in a large office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, he took questions from aides who played key members of the committee, mimicking their style of questioning. The mock hearing room has been outfitted with a dais, nametags, microphones and a clock with red and green lights meant to keep his answers within the allotted time limit.
The sessions, which are often referred to as “murder boards,” have also featured faux protesters to make sure Kavanaugh stays cool in the event of a midhearing outburst.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolinia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska have all helped Kavanaugh practice and critique his performance, according to people familiar with the sessions. Another source said that Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah — a former Judiciary Committee chairman — played the role of chairman in a mock hearing, which included GOP senators standing in for Judiciary members and zeroing in on topics that Democrats are expected to grill Kavanaugh about.
It’s not uncommon for senators to help Supreme Court nominees of their own party prepare for confirmation hearings. Graham, for example, has participated in practice sessions for John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first nominee for the high court, while Sullivan also helped with Gorsuch’s preparations.
The White House is organizing a war room in the Senate near the committee room that will be staffed by administration officials, Senate leadership aides and Judiciary Committee staff. A second war room is being set up in Vice President Mike Pence’s Senate office. Staffers will be ready “in case there’s a surprise,” the White House official said.
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Kavanaugh’s prep work for the confirmation hearings began in earnest soon after President Donald Trump nominated him in July. Staff from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy and the White House counsel’s office, along with Kavanaugh’s former clerks, prepared dozens of binders packed with information and suggested answers about everything from the establishment clause to environmental law. Kavanaugh took one or two binders home each night, the official said.
The prep work largely mirrored the process Gorsuch underwent before his largely noncontroversial confirmation hearings last year. Gorsuch was confirmed in a 54-45 vote, and Trump has subsequently described the confirmation as one of the high points of his presidency.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/30/kavanaugh-senate-hearing-prep-supreme-court-white-house-805490
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good.
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'Sparks will fly' at Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON – For eight weeks since President Donald Trump nominated him for the swing seat on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh's judicial record and legal philosophy has gotten lost amid disputes over his partisan past and withheld documents.
But when the Senate Judiciary Committee holds four days of hearings this week, those controversies probably will take a back seat to issues affecting millions of Americans: Abortion. Guns. Health care. And, inevitably, the president himself.
Kavanaugh, 53, will be questioned for 17 hours or more about the conservative views he espoused in more than 300 opinions and dissents over 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – a traditional steppingstone to the Supreme Court.
For half that time, Republicans who have fawned over Kavanaugh since his nomination July 9 will call attention to his pedigree and character: Yale University and Yale Law School, three prestigious federal court clerkships, nearly a decade of public service and a reputation for open-mindedness and collegiality.
Explainer: Five reasons Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court is controversial
For the other half, Democrats whose opposition is all but assured will highlight the Washington native's rulings and writings on controversial issues and seek assurances on how he would rule in future cases – questions Kavanaugh will parry without making any promises.
“There will be sparks at this hearing. Sparks will fly," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "And there will be a lot of heat.”
There already has been a lot of money spent on both sides of the Kavanaugh nomination, nearly all of it in the few states from Maine to Alaska where senators' votes are in play. Conservative groups including the National Rifle Association have spent more than $4 million on television ads alone, outpacing liberal groups concerned about abortion rights, health care and the financing of election campaigns.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/03/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-gets-senate-test/1180524002/
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Obstruction: Democrats Begin Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing with 62 Interruptions
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Senate Democrats threw a tantrum on Tuesday during the opening of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Abandoning decorum, Senate Democrats interrupted the proceedings 62 times, without waiting for proper recognition from the chair, and many of them spoke out of turn.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal led Senate Democrats by interrupting the proceedings 21 times, and Corey Booker interrupted 13 times while his staff sent out fundraising letters based on his performance.
Here is the current count of interruptions, according to the Republican National Committee, during the first two hours of the hearing:
INTERRUPTIONS:
Richard Blumenthal 21
Cory Booker 13
Christopher Coons 2
Dick Durbin 0
Dianne Feinstein 0
Kamala Harris 9
Mazie Hirono 8
Amy Klobuchar 5
Patrick Leahy 2
Sheldon Whitehouse 2
TOTAL 62
NBC reported that Senate Democrats planned the disruption over the phone with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. But the protests did not have their intended effect as the hearings continued.
Republican senators condemned the interruptions as Democrats trying to enact “mob rule” over the serious nature of the confirmation hearing.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/04/brett-kavanaugh-obstruction-democrats-begin-confirmation-hearing-62-interruptions/
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Actress Piper Perabo Arrested for Civil Disobedience During Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing
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Taking a stand. Piper Perabo was arrested after joining in a protest at Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, August 4.
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Video from the hearing shows United States Capitol Police removing multiple women from the hearing room as they objected to the 53-year-old circuit judge’s Supreme Court nomination. Perabo, 41, is briefly seen in the footage posted to Twitter by NBC News off-air reporter Frank Thorp.
“I was just arrested for civil disobedience in the Kavanaugh hearings,” the Notorious actress tweeted on Tuesday. “Many citizens before me have fought for the equal rights of women. I can’t be silent when someone is nominated to the Supreme Court who would take our equal rights away.”
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Politico reports almost two dozen protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Separately, protestors dressed in Handmaid’s Tale costumes stood outside the hearing room.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/piper-perabo-arrested-during-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing/amp/
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@KamalaHarris that was the biggest case of hypocrisy I’ve ever heard “Justice is blind and everyone should be treated equally under the law” are you f**king kidding me? #KamalaHarris - Me on Twitter
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Actress Piper Perabo Arrested for Civil Disobedience During Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing
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Taking a stand. Piper Perabo was arrested after joining in a protest at Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, August 4.
Celebrity Activists
Video from the hearing shows United States Capitol Police removing multiple women from the hearing room as they objected to the 53-year-old circuit judge’s Supreme Court nomination. Perabo, 41, is briefly seen in the footage posted to Twitter by NBC News off-air reporter Frank Thorp.
“I was just arrested for civil disobedience in the Kavanaugh hearings,” the Notorious actress tweeted on Tuesday. “Many citizens before me have fought for the equal rights of women. I can’t be silent when someone is nominated to the Supreme Court who would take our equal rights away.”
Celebrities’ Political Affiliations
Politico reports almost two dozen protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Separately, protestors dressed in Handmaid’s Tale costumes stood outside the hearing room.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/piper-perabo-arrested-during-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing/amp/
Piper is shape-shifting into Robin Wright.
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Liberals have absolutely zero dignity
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Besides the 70 interruptions (also the number of arrests made) and violations of due process the "resistors" engaged in during that hearing, one shouldn't overlook their meltdown outside the steps of the Supreme Court minutes after Kavanaugh's nomination was announced. In many cases, their picket signs had a blank space where his name was penciled in, as they were basically preparing to oppose any candidate the White House announced. Shameless and opportunistic to the last breath, that's the Left.
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Liberals have absolutely zero dignity
Yes and zero brains as well. All of these leftists and their crazy actions just drive more people away from the dems.
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Shapiro: Dear Democrats, screaming and whining aren’t strategies
Ben Shapiro · September 5, 2018
This week, Democrats pulled out all the stops in their attempts to stop President Trump’s pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, from gaining a seat on the Supreme Court. Now, Democrats have no power to stop Kavanaugh’s ascension; thanks to former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Democrats invoked the so-called nuclear option in order to reduce the burden for approving judicial nominees down to a simple majority. This has left Democrats and their allies with two options and two options only: screaming and whining.
First, the screaming.
Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., both of whom have already announced they will not support Kavanaugh’s nomination, attempted to shut down the Senate Judiciary Committee Kavanaugh hearing. Harris immediately called for an adjournment so that she could supposedly review more of Kavanaugh’s documents. Then Booker jumped in. By the end of the first 40 minutes of the hearing, Harris had interrupted eight times; Booker 10 times; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., 13 times; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, six times; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., three times; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., twice; Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., once; and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., once. Apparently, all were acting at the behest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was attempting to run out the shot clock … or something.
That was just the beginning. Women’s March activist and terrorist sympathizer Linda Sarsour showed up to scream at Republicans; she was arrested. Several more feminist protesters showed up dressed as cast members of “The Handmaid’s Tale”; other feminists simply screamed at the top of their lungs during the hearing, forcing their ejection. Planned Parenthood Action tweeted, “This is what the resistance looks like, and we’re going to fight like hell to #StopKavanuagh.”
The screaming, needless to say, did not work.
And so, the Democrats deployed the next prong of their attack: whining. First, a bevy of leftist commentators on Twitter deployed to inform Americans that Zina Bash, a former Kavanaugh law clerk, was secretly utilizing a white supremacy signal while sitting behind Kavanaugh. Amy Siskind of The Weekly List tweeted, “What fresh hell is this!!!??? Kavanaugh’s assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!!” Eugene Gu, a Twitter celebrity doctor, called the supposed sign a “national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law.” Video of Bash earned millions of views on Twitter within a few hours.
There’s only one problem: Bash is half-Mexican and half-Jewish, and her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Oops.
But more whining was in order. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland shooting victim, stated that he tried to introduce himself to Kavanaugh but Kavanaugh wouldn’t shake his hand. Again, there was only one problem: That never happened. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah explained: “As Judge Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened.”
Here’s the truth: Judicial hearings are largely useless at this point. Thanks to the destruction of Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork in 1987, judicial nominees know not to answer direct questions about judicial rulings and philosophy, and senators know to only ask questions most likely to land them on television. With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should simply bring up Kavanaugh for a vote and end this circus.
But he won’t. The circus will continue. Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.
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Timeline seems to be a Senate vote next week and Kavanaugh seated when the Supreme Court reconvenes October 1.
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All the left did with that ridiculous conduct was show they are no better than the right.
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Shapiro: Dear Democrats, screaming and whining aren’t strategies
Ben Shapiro · September 5, 2018
This week, Democrats pulled out all the stops in their attempts to stop President Trump’s pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, from gaining a seat on the Supreme Court. Now, Democrats have no power to stop Kavanaugh’s ascension; thanks to former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Democrats invoked the so-called nuclear option in order to reduce the burden for approving judicial nominees down to a simple majority. This has left Democrats and their allies with two options and two options only: screaming and whining.
First, the screaming.
Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., both of whom have already announced they will not support Kavanaugh’s nomination, attempted to shut down the Senate Judiciary Committee Kavanaugh hearing. Harris immediately called for an adjournment so that she could supposedly review more of Kavanaugh’s documents. Then Booker jumped in. By the end of the first 40 minutes of the hearing, Harris had interrupted eight times; Booker 10 times; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., 13 times; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, six times; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., three times; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., twice; Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., once; and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., once. Apparently, all were acting at the behest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was attempting to run out the shot clock … or something.
That was just the beginning. Women’s March activist and terrorist sympathizer Linda Sarsour showed up to scream at Republicans; she was arrested. Several more feminist protesters showed up dressed as cast members of “The Handmaid’s Tale”; other feminists simply screamed at the top of their lungs during the hearing, forcing their ejection. Planned Parenthood Action tweeted, “This is what the resistance looks like, and we’re going to fight like hell to #StopKavanuagh.”
The screaming, needless to say, did not work.
And so, the Democrats deployed the next prong of their attack: whining. First, a bevy of leftist commentators on Twitter deployed to inform Americans that Zina Bash, a former Kavanaugh law clerk, was secretly utilizing a white supremacy signal while sitting behind Kavanaugh. Amy Siskind of The Weekly List tweeted, “What fresh hell is this!!!??? Kavanaugh’s assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!!” Eugene Gu, a Twitter celebrity doctor, called the supposed sign a “national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law.” Video of Bash earned millions of views on Twitter within a few hours.
There’s only one problem: Bash is half-Mexican and half-Jewish, and her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Oops.
But more whining was in order. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland shooting victim, stated that he tried to introduce himself to Kavanaugh but Kavanaugh wouldn’t shake his hand. Again, there was only one problem: That never happened. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah explained: “As Judge Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened.”
Here’s the truth: Judicial hearings are largely useless at this point. Thanks to the destruction of Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork in 1987, judicial nominees know not to answer direct questions about judicial rulings and philosophy, and senators know to only ask questions most likely to land them on television. With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should simply bring up Kavanaugh for a vote and end this circus.
But he won’t. The circus will continue. Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.
And to think some of the senators acting a fool want to be POTUS.
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All the left did with that ridiculous conduct was show they are no better than the right.
It was just Ridiculous Conduct.
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Shapiro: Dear Democrats, screaming and whining aren’t strategies
Haha!
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It was just Ridiculous Conduct.
it was..
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All the left did with that ridiculous conduct was show they are no better than the right.
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The left has been acting that way for years, like this is some sort of new behavior for the crybabies. ::) ::) ::) ::)
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The left has been acting that way for years, like this is some sort of new behavior for the crybabies. ::) ::) ::) ::)
Should I trot out some Republican examples? Or would that just be wasting my time. It was wrong that they were disrupting the hearing, doesn't matter if similar behavior was done by the opposing party. But to pretend the left is somehow worse than the right... come on..
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Should I trot out some Republican examples? Or would that just be wasting my time. It was wrong that they were disrupting the hearing, doesn't matter if similar behavior was done by the opposing party. But to pretend the left is somehow worse than the right... come on..
Actually that would be funny. Can you show me the last time the right disrupted a hearing and had a bunch of their protesters arrested? :D
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Actually that would be funny. Can you show me the last time the right disrupted a hearing and had a bunch of their protesters arrested? :D
I stand corrected, I found rallies and assorted other venues but not specifically a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. This appears to be a first.
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I stand corrected, I found rallies and assorted other venues but not specifically a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. This appears to be a first.
I don't recall seeing any protests when Obama appointed far-left SCOTUS judges like Sotomayor. Sure, they trashed her on conservative radio and news outlets, but you didn't see an avalanche of unemployed, shower-impaired, green & blue-haired autists with picket signs outside the Supreme Court the day of the nomination or inside the committee hearings. There's something fundamentally anti-American about muzzling due process and stifling free speech, and these unauthorized protests are just that. That's why the Right would come off as hypocritical if they had Duck Dynasty-style survivalists bursting into the chambers and waving their flags in the air to demonstrate against liberal appointees, while the Left has no such scruples since in their narrow universe anything that doesn't fit their agenda is fair game, fuck the rules.
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Should I trot out some Republican examples? Or would that just be wasting my time. It was wrong that they were disrupting the hearing, doesn't matter if similar behavior was done by the opposing party. But to pretend the left is somehow worse than the right... come on..
Actually that would be funny. Can you show me the last time the right disrupted a hearing and had a bunch of their protesters arrested? :D
I stand corrected, I found rallies and assorted other venues but not specifically a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. This appears to be a first.
Agnostic that’s why you are one of the very decent posters
You made a statement & couldnt back it up
And came right out and Said you were Wrong.
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We cross swords often on subjects & it’s generally
In good nature & I appreciate most of your replies.
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Agnostic that’s why you are one of the very decent posters
You made a statement & couldnt back it up
And came right out and Said you were Wrong.
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We cross swords often on subjects & it’s generally
In good nature & I appreciate most of your replies.
I appreciate that. One thing I know for sure is through out the years I have been wrong more than I care to recall, many times when I thought for sure I was right. So I'm getting used to admitting it these days.
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Agnostic that’s why you are one of the very decent posters
You made a statement & couldnt back it up
And came right out and Said you were Wrong.
Top Man -
We cross swords often on subjects & it’s generally
In good nature & I appreciate most of your replies.
Then he isn't liberal, because liberals never admit fault or work within the framework of the system and rules we have in place.
Meanwhile, more communists melting at the hearings, without actually knowing why they're doing it:
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We cross swords often.
Outed.
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At least 8 liberal getbiggers melted today at the hearings since this morning. It's amusing how the Left's most radical exponents think shouting loudly and being dragged out wearing backpacks and novelty t-shirts by the police while normal people with jobs and responsibilities go about their business is somehow moving their agenda forward. It just reminds people why November 2016 went the way it did. That's what they were doing back then, too.
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At least 8 liberal getbiggers melted today at the hearings since this morning. It's amusing how the Left's most radical exponents think shouting loudly and being dragged out wearing backpacks and novelty t-shirts by the police while normal people with jobs and responsibilities go about their business is somehow moving their agenda forward. It just reminds people why November 2016 went the way it did. That's what they were doing back then, too.
Right? They are accomplishing nothing. All it does is expose how dangerous a disproportionate number of liberals can be.
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Self ownage. Booker is such a drama queen.
‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh emails posted by Cory Booker were cleared, despite dramatic claim of defying rules
Alex Pappas By Alex Pappas | Fox News
In yet another bizarre turn of events at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Republicans have revealed that documents Democratic Sen. Cory Booker published Thursday morning in supposed defiance of Senate rules had already been cleared for release.
“All of this drama this morning apparently was for nothing and it’s unfortunate,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters after a chaotic start to the third day of Kavanaugh’s hearing.
Earlier Thursday, Booker dramatically said he would “knowingly” violate Senate rules to release emails marked "committee confidential" that showed Kavanaugh discussing racial profiling as a White House lawyer in 2002. Booker referred to his actions as an act of “civil disobedience” and said he was prepared to face punishment.
“I am going to release the e-mail about racial profiling and I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” said Booker, a possible 2020 Democratic candidate for president.
At another point, Booker said, “This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
But it turns out, Booker didn’t actually break any rules. The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee said they worked with the George W. Bush library and the Justice Department overnight to clear the emails. The restrictions were waived early Thursday morning.
Senator Kamala Harris asks Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh if he discussed Robert Mueller's investigation with anyone at law firm founded by President Trump's personal lawyer.
Therefore, Booker’s act of defiance was not an actual violation of the rules because nothing that he released was marked committee confidential at the time of its release.
"Apparently, some just wanted to break the rules and make a scene, but didn’t check their email," a spokesman for committee Republicans said in a statement. The committee posted the same documents.
"Clearly, he is running for president," GOP Sen. John Thune later told Fox News, speaking of Booker.
The emails appeared to be cleared in part because of the involvement of Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will happily work with any of my colleagues from across the aisle to go through the necessary steps and processes to try and get specific classified documents released to the public,” Utah Sen. Mike Lee tweeted.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I will happily work with any of my colleagues from across the aisle to go through the necessary steps and processes to try and get specific classified documents released to the public. #Kavanaugh #SCOTUS
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Booker released 12 pages of emails – which had been marked “committee confidential” – online for the public to read. The emails included internal post-9/11 discussions surrounding issues of racial profiling.
In the 2002 email, Kavanaugh, who was working as a lawyer in the Bush White House, said he “generally” favored race-neutral security measures, but said they need to “grapple” with the “interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented.”
Kavanaugh wrote that the “interim question” is of “critical importance to the security of the airlines and American people in the next 6 months or so, especially given Al Qaeda’s track record of timing between terrorist incidents.”
The episode began a day earlier when Booker first implied Kavanaugh had been open to racial profiling tactics, citing the email exchange between Kavanaugh and a colleague.
However, Booker at the time did not provide Kavanaugh a copy of the emails to review while questioning him about it, prompting an objection from Lee, who charged that it was inappropriate to “cross-examine” Kavanaugh about documents that he “can’t see.”
The emails had been marked "committee confidential." But Booker said Thursday he would release them anyway, saying the document is a “great illustration of the absurdity of the process” because there’s nothing in it that’s “national security-related.”
Top Republicans mocked and denounced Booker for the move.
“Running for president is no excuse for violating the rules of the Senate or of confidentiality of the documents that we are privy to,” Cornyn told Booker.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, dinged Booker for repeating his point.
“Can I ask you how long you’re going to say the same thing three or four times?” Grassley asked.
“I’m saying I’m knowingly violating the rules,” Booker replied. “Senator Cornyn has called me out for it.”
“How many times are you going to tell us that?” Grassley replied.
Cornyn, at one point, read the Senate rule that said senators who disclose confidential business could suffer expulsion from the body.
Booker replied, “Bring it.”
A number of Democrats, including Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, threw their support behind Booker’s move.
“I completely agree with you. I concur with what you are doing…So if there is going to be some retribution against the senator from New Jersey, count me in,” Durbin said.
“We support what Sen. Booker is doing here,” Klobuchar said.
Meanwhile, outbursts from protesters continued to interrupt the proceedings, as they have all week.
“Confirmation hearings are supposed to be an opportunity for the American people to hear from the nominee," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said. "Unfortunately, it seems that some on the political left have decided to try to turn this hearing into a circus.”
It came as Kavanaugh entered the final stretch of questioning in his confirmation hearing Thursday with Democrats springing a series of cryptic questions – in an apparent attempt to box the nominee into an embarrassing admission or at least throw him off what has been a relatively steady performance.
Under questioning, Kavanaugh denied that he once suggested the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights is not settled law. Kavanaugh has repeatedly described the abortion ruling as important Supreme Court precedent difficult to overturn.
Kavanaugh was asked about a 2003 email which was disclosed Thursday, where he wrote: "I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so."
Kavanaugh said he was not discussing his views, but rather "what legal scholars might say."
Other lines of questioning from Democrats have been more mysterious, suggesting an effort to lay a trap.
In an especially combative moment late Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., asked Kavanaugh whether he ever had discussed Special Counsel Robert Mueller or his Russia probe with anyone at Kasowitz Benson Torres, the law firm founded by Marc Kasowitz, a former personal attorney to President Trump.
“I don’t recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm… I haven’t had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone,” Kavanaugh said Thursday, when given the chance to elaborate on Harris' question from a day earlier.
He added, “I’ve never given anyone any hints, forecasts, previews, winks, nothing about my view as a judge or how I would rule as a judge on that or anything related to that.”
For the most part, the hearings have focused on Kavanaugh’s writings and, in particular, key opinions he authored while serving on the nation’s most prestigious appellate court.
The confirmation hearing has been chaotic at times, with Democrats trying to delay the proceedings as they complain they haven’t received enough records from Kavanaugh’s past work.
Kavanaugh served for more than a decade on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and, before that, for five years as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office in the George W. Bush administration. He also worked for independent counsel Ken Starr for three years during the probe that led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.
Kavanaugh’s elevation from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court would mark a generational rightward shift on the Supreme Court, raising the stakes beyond those of last year’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
The judge’s nomination, though, will ultimately succeed or fail depending on a handful of swing-vote senators, including vulnerable red-state Democrats and moderate pro-choice Republicans who have all said that they would withhold judgment on the nominee.
Republicans command a narrow 51-49 Senate majority. Party leaders have said they hope to have Kavanaugh confirmed by a floor vote by early October, when the next Supreme Court term begins.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/06/kavanaugh-questioning-enters-final-stretch-as-dems-seem-to-lay-traps.html
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Three Texas Doctors: We Saw Protesters Paid In Cash To Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Hearing On Line To Enter
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Author and commentator Adam W. Schindler interviews three Texas doctors who traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. While waiting on line, they say they witnessed protesters being paid in cash to cause trouble in the hearing and in the public line to get in, Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
TRANSCRIPT:
ADAM W. SCHINDLER: We are here in the line for the public tickets at the Supreme Court hearing in Washington D.C.... day one... there has been a little bit of chaos here, some interesting things were going on on the line... These are not random protests, and we've got some eyewitnesses here to tell you what happened in line this morning in D.C.
TOM SCHLUETER, TEXAS: Hello, I'm Dr. Tom Schlueter from Texas, we came here to participate in the hearings, to get in the line. They told us to be here at 8:00, 8:30 at the latest, to get in line to go inside and hear the hearings. We got here at about 8:15 and there was already 100 people in line, and most of them would be probably classified by me as 'opposing everything going on with Judge Kavanaugh,' and so we began to see a process of things unfolding as we were standing in line that kept the line from going ahead.
One thing was there were people who had come along... who had a bag of money, and people would hand them a piece of paper, and then they would give them money. So we know money was exchanged for some of the people to be here, just to protest.
There was no depth to what their understanding, they were just here to be a disruption, protesters. They were actually told, we heard them say this, 'when you go in, we want you to yell, to scream, and even possibly to get arrested.' So that was some of the processes we saw happening...
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DOCTOR CHRIS DUNDAS, CORPUS CHRISTI: Hey guys, I'm Dr. Chris Dundas from Corpus Christi in Texas, we're up here for these hearings. I gotta tell you, it was very sad. This is a very time-honored institution in the past, and these young people (mostly young people, but some old people) they seem to have no heartfelt convictions about why they are here. If you have to pay somebody to protest, that's a good tell... Being arrested and being proud of it. Some women came back from these hearings and they seemed disappointed they were not arrested...
DOCTOR BURTON PURVIS, ARLINGTON: Good afternoon, I'm doctor Morton Purvis from Arlington. This experience I shared with these other three guys was quite an enlightening one. I took off my credentials and walked among the people to get more information and be more acceptable to those around us. It was quite interesting as we listened to their attitudes and actions about why they were here and what they wanted to do.
The most telling thing was listening to them giving names and addresses, so when they were arrested, they were keeping a record and celebrating who got arrested, without any regard for any open discussion or even the possibility of being convinced of anything, it was just for the purpose of disruption and to have some kind of disruption of the process.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/04/texas_doctor_i_saw_people_handing_out_cash_to_protesters_in_the_line_for_kavanaugh_hearing.html
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Three Texas Doctors: We Saw Protesters Paid In Cash To Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Hearing On Line To Enter
(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmQRLGwUUAATHwF?format=jpg&name=large)
Author and commentator Adam W. Schindler interviews three Texas doctors who traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. While waiting on line, they say they witnessed protesters being paid in cash to cause trouble in the hearing and in the public line to get in, Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
TRANSCRIPT:
ADAM W. SCHINDLER: We are here in the line for the public tickets at the Supreme Court hearing in Washington D.C.... day one... there has been a little bit of chaos here, some interesting things were going on on the line... These are not random protests, and we've got some eyewitnesses here to tell you what happened in line this morning in D.C.
TOM SCHLUETER, TEXAS: Hello, I'm Dr. Tom Schlueter from Texas, we came here to participate in the hearings, to get in the line. They told us to be here at 8:00, 8:30 at the latest, to get in line to go inside and hear the hearings. We got here at about 8:15 and there was already 100 people in line, and most of them would be probably classified by me as 'opposing everything going on with Judge Kavanaugh,' and so we began to see a process of things unfolding as we were standing in line that kept the line from going ahead.
One thing was there were people who had come along... who had a bag of money, and people would hand them a piece of paper, and then they would give them money. So we know money was exchanged for some of the people to be here, just to protest.
There was no depth to what their understanding, they were just here to be a disruption, protesters. They were actually told, we heard them say this, 'when you go in, we want you to yell, to scream, and even possibly to get arrested.' So that was some of the processes we saw happening...
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DOCTOR CHRIS DUNDAS, CORPUS CHRISTI: Hey guys, I'm Dr. Chris Dundas from Corpus Christi in Texas, we're up here for these hearings. I gotta tell you, it was very sad. This is a very time-honored institution in the past, and these young people (mostly young people, but some old people) they seem to have no heartfelt convictions about why they are here. If you have to pay somebody to protest, that's a good tell... Being arrested and being proud of it. Some women came back from these hearings and they seemed disappointed they were not arrested...
DOCTOR BURTON PURVIS, ARLINGTON: Good afternoon, I'm doctor Morton Purvis from Arlington. This experience I shared with these other three guys was quite an enlightening one. I took off my credentials and walked among the people to get more information and be more acceptable to those around us. It was quite interesting as we listened to their attitudes and actions about why they were here and what they wanted to do.
The most telling thing was listening to them giving names and addresses, so when they were arrested, they were keeping a record and celebrating who got arrested, without any regard for any open discussion or even the possibility of being convinced of anything, it was just for the purpose of disruption and to have some kind of disruption of the process.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/04/texas_doctor_i_saw_people_handing_out_cash_to_protesters_in_the_line_for_kavanaugh_hearing.html
That if it’s correct is outrageous
And should be investigated & those behind organising & paying people to protest
And disrupt proceedings held accountable.
Regardless of political persuasions anyone saying / thinking this is good or acceptable
Clearly have some issues & need help.
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"Update 9/6/18: Adam Schindler, who questioned the men who said they witnessed payments, has told Law&Crime that he spoke with a protest organizer about alleged payments. He stated that the organizer told him that her organization paid people’s fines that they incurred for protesting, but did not pay people in order to protest."
This has been my experience at some protests. It is planned in advance that people will be arrested and arrangements made to pay the bail or the fine. I don't know for a fact this is the case here, but it does align with past practices
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Three Texas Doctors: We Saw Protesters Paid In Cash To Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Hearing On Line To Enter
(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmQRLGwUUAATHwF?format=jpg&name=large)
Author and commentator Adam W. Schindler interviews three Texas doctors who traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. While waiting on line, they say they witnessed protesters being paid in cash to cause trouble in the hearing and in the public line to get in, Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
TRANSCRIPT:
ADAM W. SCHINDLER: We are here in the line for the public tickets at the Supreme Court hearing in Washington D.C.... day one... there has been a little bit of chaos here, some interesting things were going on on the line... These are not random protests, and we've got some eyewitnesses here to tell you what happened in line this morning in D.C.
TOM SCHLUETER, TEXAS: Hello, I'm Dr. Tom Schlueter from Texas, we came here to participate in the hearings, to get in the line. They told us to be here at 8:00, 8:30 at the latest, to get in line to go inside and hear the hearings. We got here at about 8:15 and there was already 100 people in line, and most of them would be probably classified by me as 'opposing everything going on with Judge Kavanaugh,' and so we began to see a process of things unfolding as we were standing in line that kept the line from going ahead.
One thing was there were people who had come along... who had a bag of money, and people would hand them a piece of paper, and then they would give them money. So we know money was exchanged for some of the people to be here, just to protest.
There was no depth to what their understanding, they were just here to be a disruption, protesters. They were actually told, we heard them say this, 'when you go in, we want you to yell, to scream, and even possibly to get arrested.' So that was some of the processes we saw happening...
...
DOCTOR CHRIS DUNDAS, CORPUS CHRISTI: Hey guys, I'm Dr. Chris Dundas from Corpus Christi in Texas, we're up here for these hearings. I gotta tell you, it was very sad. This is a very time-honored institution in the past, and these young people (mostly young people, but some old people) they seem to have no heartfelt convictions about why they are here. If you have to pay somebody to protest, that's a good tell... Being arrested and being proud of it. Some women came back from these hearings and they seemed disappointed they were not arrested...
DOCTOR BURTON PURVIS, ARLINGTON: Good afternoon, I'm doctor Morton Purvis from Arlington. This experience I shared with these other three guys was quite an enlightening one. I took off my credentials and walked among the people to get more information and be more acceptable to those around us. It was quite interesting as we listened to their attitudes and actions about why they were here and what they wanted to do.
The most telling thing was listening to them giving names and addresses, so when they were arrested, they were keeping a record and celebrating who got arrested, without any regard for any open discussion or even the possibility of being convinced of anything, it was just for the purpose of disruption and to have some kind of disruption of the process.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/04/texas_doctor_i_saw_people_handing_out_cash_to_protesters_in_the_line_for_kavanaugh_hearing.html
Is that Linda Sarsour, the Sharia supporter, to the left?
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"Update 9/6/18: Adam Schindler, who questioned the men who said they witnessed payments, has told Law&Crime that he spoke with a protest organizer about alleged payments. He stated that the organizer told him that her organization paid people’s fines that they incurred for protesting, but did not pay people in order to protest."
This has been my experience at some protests. It is planned in advance that people will be arrested and arrangements made to pay the bail or the fine. I don't know for a fact this is the case here, but it does align with past practices
Here is one of the protesters getting paid:
(https://i.redd.it/sq2ud496mfk11.jpg)
Liberalism is a mental disorder
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Here is one of the protesters getting paid:
(https://i.redd.it/sq2ud496mfk11.jpg)
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Like I said.. fines being paid or bail isn't really "getting paid"
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Like I said.. fines being paid or bail isn't really "getting paid"
You don't know for sure either way what's going on in that pic. He could be paying her for a handy or a BJ for all we know.
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I stand corrected, I found rallies and assorted other venues but not specifically a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. This appears to be a first.
Well now you've peaked my interest. What official government meeting/venues have been protested by the right where they lashed out and interrupted to the point they were arrested and removed from the building ???
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Well now you've peaked my interest. What official government meeting/venues have been protested by the right where they lashed out and interrupted to the point they were arrested and removed from the building ???
I'd like to know that too.
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I'd like to know that too.
besides the one during the current Supreme court nominee hearing Energy and commerce hearing with a right winger getting arrested?
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besides the one during the current Supreme court nominee hearing with a right winger getting arrested?
Link?
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Wasnt supreme court hearing it was House energy and commerce committee but a government hearing nonetheless
Washington (CNN)As a woman interrupted a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who's a former auctioneer, took the microphone to talk over her in characteristic auctioneer style.
The moment came at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, when far-right activist Laura Loomer began speaking up in the audience. Loomer ignored calls for order and harangued Dorsey, accusing him of political bias in running the social media site.
As she continued, Long started listing off imaginary bids, eventually drowning out what she was saying.
Capitol Police were called to escort her out, and Long finished to applause after she left the hearing room.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/billy-long-auction-protester/index.html
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Wasnt supreme court hearing it was House energy and commerce committee but a government hearing nonetheless
Washington (CNN)As a woman interrupted a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who's a former auctioneer, took the microphone to talk over her in characteristic auctioneer style.
The moment came at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, when far-right activist Laura Loomer began speaking up in the audience. Loomer ignored calls for order and harangued Dorsey, accusing him of political bias in running the social media site.
As she continued, Long started listing off imaginary bids, eventually drowning out what she was saying.
Capitol Police were called to escort her out, and Long finished to applause after she left the hearing room.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/billy-long-auction-protester/index.html
That's it? Lol A 25 year old kid? Who is described by CNN as a "far-right activist"? And this is your proof that Republicans and conservatives disrupt meetings and try and shout down opposing viewpoints?
Weak. Incredibly weak.
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Wasnt supreme court hearing it was House energy and commerce committee but a government hearing nonetheless
Washington (CNN)As a woman interrupted a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who's a former auctioneer, took the microphone to talk over her in characteristic auctioneer style.
The moment came at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, when far-right activist Laura Loomer began speaking up in the audience. Loomer ignored calls for order and harangued Dorsey, accusing him of political bias in running the social media site.
As she continued, Long started listing off imaginary bids, eventually drowning out what she was saying.
Capitol Police were called to escort her out, and Long finished to applause after she left the hearing room.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/billy-long-auction-protester/index.html
One chick? Come on.
As a matter of fact, there has to be some stats out there showing the number of leftists arrested at these protests for violence, destruction of property, refusal to disperse, etc vs the number of right wingers in the same time period. That would be great to see.
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Trying to one-up us illustrating far-left lunatics/paid agitators in video and articles by posting some of your own allegedly showing right-wing people doing it is tantamount to trying to match stories about young black males running away from the police or shooting people with analogous articles of white men doing it. You're literally pushing at a very fast-moving avalanche to keep it from sending you back to the base of the logic mountain.
Meanwhile, back in Washington:
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CONFIRMED: Organizer Vinay Krishnan Who Was Caught Paying Off Kavanaugh Protesters — Works for Soros-Linked Organization
Vinay is an “organizer of civil disobedience” who works for a Soros-funded group — Center for Popular Democracy.
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/vinay-krishnan-organizer-.jpg)
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/vinay-krishnan-soros-protesters.jpg)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/confirmed-organizer-vinay-krishnan-who-was-caught-paying-off-kavanaugh-protesters-works-for-soros-linked-organization/
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Wasnt supreme court hearing it was House energy and commerce committee but a government hearing nonetheless
Washington (CNN)As a woman interrupted a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who's a former auctioneer, took the microphone to talk over her in characteristic auctioneer style.
The moment came at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, when far-right activist Laura Loomer began speaking up in the audience. Loomer ignored calls for order and harangued Dorsey, accusing him of political bias in running the social media site.
As she continued, Long started listing off imaginary bids, eventually drowning out what she was saying.
Capitol Police were called to escort her out, and Long finished to applause after she left the hearing room.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/billy-long-auction-protester/index.html
Laura Loomer is a would-be journalist w/ Alex Jones. Good Example!
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Laura Loomer is a would-be journalist w/ Alex Jones. Good Example!
Yeah she's the one who got in Maxine Waters grill that one day.
That's kind of her M.O.
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Libfags still cant accept reality.
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Like I said.. fines being paid or bail isn't really "getting paid"
Liberal logic at work. If you believe in something strongly enough you shouldn't need to get paid to do it. No code of ethics on the left...it's always the goal and then whatever story fits.
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Liberal logic at work. If you believe in something strongly enough you shouldn't need to get paid to do it. No code of ethics on the left...it's always the goal and then whatever story fits.
uninformed opinion at work. Unions are organized for a reason. Some protests are organized for similar reasons.
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uninformed opinion at work. Unions are organized for a reason. Some protests are organized for similar reasons.
Uninformed eh... You are drawing a comparison of union assemblage to this stunt at the Kavanaugh hearings.
They have nothing in common and once again nothing but the political goal matters - no matter the behavior. That is radicalism.