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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 02:13 PM
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Durbin: Judge Misled Senate About Role In Forming Detainee Policy As WH Lawyer
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Durbin: Judge Misled Senate About Role In Forming Detainee Policy As WH Lawyer

Last year, when Brett Kavanaugh, a former White House lawyer, was sworn-in as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, President Bush said he chose him because of “the strength of his character.” That character has now come into serious question.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Kavanaugh yesterday, accusing him of misleading the Senate about his role in formulating detainee policies as a lawyer in the Bush Administration.

Durbin says a recent Washington Post article contradicts Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony:

In {the Washington Post} article, you are reported to have participated in a “heated” White House meeting in 2002 about whether U.S. citizens who had been declared enemy combatants should be given access to lawyers. The information in this article was confirmed today by a report on National Public Radio.

These reports appear to contradict sworn testimony you gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2006 at your nomination hearing. {…}

I asked: “What did you know about Mr. Haynes’s role in crafting the Adminstration’s detention and interrogation policies?”

You testified: “Senator, I did not was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants — and so I do not have the involvement with that.”

In the Post article, which is part of a series on Vice President Dick Cheney, Kavanaugh is said to have argued that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom he had clerked, “would never accept absolute presidential discretion to declare a U.S. citizen an enemy and lock him up without giving him an opportunity to be represented and heard.”

A spokesman for Kavanaugh claimed his testimony was “accurate.”

Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation testimony was accurate, and Judge Kavanaugh will continue to carefully address recusal issues based on the law and the facts of each case.

Durbin requested that Kavanaugh “provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with an explanation for this apparent contradiction” as well as recuse himself from “all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants.”
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 02:27 PM
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1. If you apply for a job and your employer finds that you were...
intentionally untruthful during the screening and hiring process, what usually happens? A judge should have an even higher standard of accountability to his employer,(the people or the people's elected representatives)since the fate of American citizens rests on his honesty and good judgment.

Since the guy was probably a loyal Bushie, I guess congress should make an exception in this case?
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youngdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-27-07 03:13 PM
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2. There are no consequences for fucking Congress over
Until that changes, they are a worthless organization as far as oversight goes.

They are gonna need to actually lock someone up due to contempt for a few months a couple of times and fine the shit out of someone personally before we see some appropriate behavior.

The Repukes have open disdain for oversight and will openly ignore authority if there is a way to do it.

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