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‘I Said Things I Shouldn’t Have Said’: Brett Kavanaugh Wants You To Know You Can Trust Him Now
So Brett Kavanaugh is probably going to be confirmed, which should surprise exactly nobody.
It looks like Susan Collins is a "yes" and Jeff Flake looks like he's prepared to move ahead as well. The Senate will begin a test vote at 10:30 AM Friday and is aiming to cram this through on Saturday.
Of course Kavanaugh would have sailed through were it not for multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, and even after those allegations came to light, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee c
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard put the boot into Kavanaugh in the (UK) Daily Telegraph over contact he had with him when Kavanaugh was about 30 years old – that is, a practising lawyer and quite some years past teenagehood.
Here’s the intro:
Twenty-three years ago I crossed swords with a younger Brett Kavanaugh in one of the weirdest and most disturbing episodes of my career as a journalist.
What happened leaves me in no doubt that he lacks judicial character and is unfit to serve on the US Supreme Court for the next thirty years or more, whatever his political ideology
If I ever argue before SCOTUS, I will be sure to bring my Dad’s calendars and cry like a whiny little drunken B until I get my way.