Senate committee delays vote on Kavanaugh nomination until next week

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Seung Min Kim

September 13 at 10:55 AM

The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed its vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh until next week, as the deeply bitter fight over his confirmation intensified and a handful of moderate senators continued to deliberate privately over whether to support him.

The move was expected — senators routinely delay committee business for one week, which is allowed under the panel’s rules. The Judiciary Committee voted 11 to 10 on Thursday to hold the vote at 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 20, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to set full Senate votes on Kavanaugh’s confirmation for the final week of September.

The vote occurred as Democrats complained about the confirmation process and pressed for more documents from President Trump’s nominee.

“It has been rushed through to judgment in a highly partisan and failed way,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-committee-delays-vote-on-kavanaugh-nomination-until-next-week/2018/09/13/726bdb7e-b758-11e8-b79f-f6e31e555258_story.html

[DavidDvorkin]

1. That's slightly hopeful.

[olegramps]

9. Perhaps the letter forwarded the FBI by Feinstein is the reason.

[DownriverDem]

13. Where

did you find the story?

[DownriverDem]

10. I wish

One thing for sure is the repubs will pay for this. Vote in November!

[babylonsister]

2. Excellent!! nt

[Leghorn21]

3. Well OKAY THEN!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "highly partisan" is not the sort of thing you want attached to lofty judicial circles

and every Republican knows it's the absolute truth, and moreover the citizenry does too. Republicans have torn bipartisanship asunder, and the origins go far back from Trump to GWB to Newt 1994 to Reagan to the groups that supported him that formed during the Nixon administration.

Confirming Kavanaugh may be the final act that causes Republicans to lose control of the Senate. It would be an unjust world indeed where they got both.

[torius]

5. Confirming him would also help Democrats win state races

Each state will have to make its own rules about health care, abortion and other issues. The Red states will suffer from his rulings the most, until they go Blue. They are already suffering, but it can get worse.

[DownriverDem]

11. Exactly

Before Roe v Wade, states did decide to allow abortions or not. A woman I know had to travel to New York from Ohio because it was not legal there. She had to travel alone, because she and her boyfriend could not afford for him to go. Going backwards is disgusting.

[ffr]

6. Keep calling your senators. The pressure is on!

[idcdu]

7. Kavanaugh has lost his nomination

Criminal referral was made to the FBI today from Ms. Feinstein.

It's over for Kavanaugh. Nobody's gonna confirm a moron now under investigation that is currently nominated by a moron under investigation.

Repukes - vote at your own risk - your seats will be gone anyway for even considering Kavanaugh and Gorusch.

[DownriverDem]

12. Link

Do you have a link about the Criminal referral that was made to the FBI today from Ms. Feinstein. I couldn't find it using google.

[duforsure]

8. He's a corrupt criminal and liar

And all those Senators that vote FOR him will face a backlash like they've never seen before , and regret what they've done to this county, and to the rule of law, and to women's rights. Many will lose their races this Nov. .