"Much of Washington has spent the week focusing on whether Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. After the revelations of his confirmation hearings, the better question is whether he should be impeached from the federal judiciary." slate.com/news-and-polit…
"Kavanaugh was repeatedly asked under oath as part of his 2004 and 2006 confirmation hearings ... about whether he had received such information from Miranda, and each time he falsely denied it." #Kavanocchio 🤥
"Eventually, though, Kavanaugh went even further to help cover up the details of the theft." #Kavanocchio🤥
"Pesky documents keep surfacing to contradict the nominee’s claims about his past"—his role in accessing stolen documents, warrantless wiretapping, torture, two judicial nominations. #Kavanocchio 🤥
Of course, none of this should come as much of a surprise to anyone who saw Trump's reality TV show announcing Kavanaugh's nomination—he lied to the entire world that night on live TV #Kavanocchio 🤥
"If we expect judges to reach conclusions based solely on reliable evidence, Kavanaugh’s savage and bitter attack demonstrated exactly the opposite sensibility."
A 5-4 right-wing majority—installed mostly by minority popular vote presidents, in the face of solid progressive majorities throttled using illegitimate means—does not "perfectly reflect" anything. To the contrary, it is a starkly imperfect reflection of where we are politically.
Partial credit to @adamliptak for this shade at the end of the piece, but it's far too mild in relation to the actual scale of the Court's legitimacy crisis.
"We have differing views about the other qualifications of Judge Kavanaugh. But we are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that [he] did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court"
Over 900 signatories and counting, from over 150 law schools, as of this morning. lawprofessor.net