Thread by @jedshug

Kavanaugh gets 3 Pinocchios for his Senate testimony from washingtonpost #Factchecker.
He has a severe credibility problem. I can see why Republicans are panic rushing his confirmation vote. 1/

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1042723876046872576

Kavanaugh’s “claims defy logic. An elite Republican lawyer who was immersed at the time in Washington’s inside baseball, Kavanaugh strains credulity by claiming this extraordinary window he had into Democrats’ thinking seemed aboveboard.“ 2/

”He received a steady stream of insider information over nine months from Miranda, according to the documents available. It reminds us of Sergeant Schultz in the 1960s TV show “Hogan’s Heroes” — ‘I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!’” 3/

4/ “Best-case is that Kavanaugh has a glaring lack of curiosity or a superficial level of discernment. Worst-case is that he has been feigning ignorance since his first confirmation hearing in the Senate in 2004,” after Senate sergeant-at-arms report on Miranda’s serial theft.

5/ “Kavanaugh’s response to Leahy this month — describing all this as “the usual kinds of discussions that would happen” — is not accurate. Neither was his answer to written questions in 2004: “These meetings, calls, and emails were typical...”

6/ “...of how judicial confirmations have been handled in past Administrations.” Neither was his response to Durbin at 2004 hearing: “There was nothing out of the ordinary of what Senate staffs would tell us or what we would hear from our legislative affairs folks.” #Kavanaugh

7/ ”All three statements merit Three Pinocchios,” concludes #FactChecker on Kavanaugh.
That’s really bad.
As I’ve written, Kavanaugh’s misrepresentations and non-credible statements have piled up.

8/ See this thread on Kavanaugh’s non-credible claims about being “shocked” by Kozinski’s harassment of female clerks. There is still a question about what he knew and when he knew it:

https://twitter.com/jedshug/status/1041804539123441665?s=21

9/ On his own jurisprudence: Kavanaugh: “I did not cast doubt on Humphrey’s Executor.”
False. And dangerous. He’d vote to expand Trump’s power to unprecedented levels. shugerblog.com/2018/09/06/kav…