Kennedy to retire - USSC will swing even further right

biff17 · Sep 27, 2018

tallanvor said: ↑

Its the FBI's response. Not mine.

“The allegation does not involve any potential federal crime. The FBI’s role in such matters is to provide information for the use of the decision makers.”
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Why did they do a investigation during the Anita Hill hearings,

Answer.

because the republicans asked for one.

do some research.

tallanvor · Sep 27, 2018

biff17 said: ↑

Why did they do a investigation during the Anita Hill hearings,

Answer.

because the republicans asked for one.

do some research.
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I already answered. it was a federal crime. go read.

Mr.Scarface · Sep 27, 2018

They FEAR the FBI.

Bobbythegreat · Sep 27, 2018

LOL, "Demand that they delay this process till the FBI can come up with the same statements that we already have or you are guilty"

No Worries · Sep 27, 2018

The whole angry-privileged-white-man look is not a good look. Lacks proper judicial temperament for the USSC. Women who are at all sympathetic with Ford will see a nominee who is not and who is more concerned about himself.

I thought that the Senate Republicans taking the high road with Ford was good political strategy. If Kavanaugh acted more "judicial", that would leave the on-the-fence Senators with just a he-said-she-said decision.

DreamShook · Sep 27, 2018

How many times is Grassley going to white night Kavanaugh?

Mr.Scarface · Sep 27, 2018

He is DODGING.........WOW. This guy is LYING THRU HIS TEETH.

Bobbythegreat · Sep 27, 2018

Can you imagine if anyone was this unfair and shitty to Ford? Clearly Democrats are next level pieces of ****.

Ottomaton · Sep 27, 2018

Found this from 2010:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/the-intrusive-investigation-behind-supreme-court-nominations

The intrusive investigation behind Supreme Court nominations

WASHINGTON — Did you ever buy p*rn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times?

White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the Supreme Court, from the mundane to the intensely personal. In trying to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades — but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate.

Prospective justices are put through the nation’s most thorough background check, an invasive process where nothing is off-limits. After all, a surprise dredged up later could scuttle confirmation. So candidates’ taxes, writings, childhoods, business dealings, medical histories and, yes, love lives, are all scrutinized for potential red flags.

“The idea that you miss something that later torpedoed the nomination — that’s a nightmare,” said Jack Quinn, former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Just ask Judge Douglas Ginsburg. Nine days after President Ronald Reagan nominated him for the high court, it was revealed he had smoked mar1juana as a law professor at Harvard and he was forced to bow out.

For Obama, who has successfully nominated two justices, the vetting process is even more critical this time as he works to push a nominee through in his final year in office. Already, Republicans are threatening to not even hold a vote. If hearings get mired in a squabble over some late revelation, Republicans could find a fresh rationale for dragging the process out until Obama’s term ends in January 2017.

Traditionally, vetting takes weeks if not months, depending on how many candidates are being checked. But Obama isn’t expected to wait more than a couple of weeks to announce his pick.

The White House was jolted into action after learning of Scalia’s death, officials said, summoning administration lawyers over Presidents Day weekend to begin searching for a suitable replacement. Obama, traveling in California, has been working with top advisers on his list while aides feel out senators about their willingness to hold a vote.

Millions of Americans with security clearances or government jobs are asked probing questions about their loyalty, reliability and character in FBI background checks. But for Supreme Court contenders, the inquiry goes far deeper.

Justice Anthony Kennedy sat through 10-plus hours of FBI interviews — and a three-hour session with the attorney general and White House counsel in which all “conceivable no-holds-barred questions were asked,” according to a memorandum archived in the Reagan Library.

Among the questions Kennedy was asked: Have you ever engaged in kinky sex? Did you shoplift as a kid? What about any associations with groups like the Klu Klux Klan? Ever abuse a girlfriend? Engage in cruelty to animals? And tell us about sex in college: How often, how many women, and did you ever contract a venereal disease?

Typically, such a deep dive doesn’t take place until the “short list” has been winnowed to a few candidates being seriously considered. Some presidents keep a close hold on the names, wary of allowing opponents to start building a case against them. Others have floated potential names through the media to try to gauge the public’s reaction.

“I always tell clients that they should think long and hard about whether they want to go through the process at all,” said Robert Kelner, a partner at the Covington law firm who advises presidential appointees on Senate confirmation. “You give up any semblance of privacy. Your name may be floated, but then it might become publically known that the White House backed away because of something embarrassing.”

In the Obama White House, the investigation has been divided in the past into a “substantive vet” of work-related history, performed by White House and Justice Department lawyers, and the “personal vet,” handled by outside attorneys, current and former administration officials said. Memos on each area of inquiry then get melded into a single report for the president and top aides.

Obama, like the four most recent presidents before him, tends to interview his final candidates himself. George W. Bush interviewed five candidates to replace Sandra Day O’Connor before settling on Samuel Alito, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Candidates who have been Senate-confirmed before could be especially appealing to Obama because much of the painstaking work of collecting information is already done. This year’s short fuse also works in favor of younger judges whose thinner judicial records mean a shorter paper trail.

After the president’s nomination there’s a whole new round of questioning — this time by the Senate Judiciary Committee, in questionnaires and finally in televised hearings. Justice Sonya Sotomayor, nominated in 2009, was asked whether anyone in Obama’s office had asked her about cases currently before the court. She was also asked to list every opinion she’d authored, every time she’d recused herself and every legal event she’d attended since joining the district court.

All told, Sotomayor’s questionnaire response totaled more than 5,000 pages.
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Seems like it kinda would have been a good idea. Who'd have thought it?

mick fry · Sep 27, 2018

This is gonna get ugly

KingCheetah · Sep 27, 2018

Lindsey bringing the fire.

Os Trigonum · Sep 27, 2018

wow. I'm a big Lindsey Graham fan all of a sudden

Bobbythegreat · Sep 27, 2018

WOW Lindsey Graham just whipped his dick out and slapped every Democrat in the Senate Judiciary Committee with it. That was lit.

Hustle Town · Sep 27, 2018

Graham's finest hour. I hope the rest of the GOP benches Mitchell.

NewRoxFan · Sep 27, 2018

tallanvor said: ↑

they can pass it off to local police. They cant check into an accusation of a non-federal crime. thats what this is.

thats their position.
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I'd have to see a link to that, since according to this WSJ article they can perform background check as directed by the white house. The only limitation regarding federal crimes is if the FBI wanted to open up criminal investigations on their own,

Q: Can the Federal Bureau of Investigation look into the allegations by a California college professor that when the two were teenagers, she was assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh? A: Basically, it comes down to whether President Trump asks them to do so. The FBI can open criminal investigations on its own if it believes someone has or is going to violate federal law, said Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division, but the Justice Department has already said the allegation doesn’t involve a potential federal crime. In the case of a background investigation for a Supreme Court nominee, the FBI has a different role: It is providing information for the White House. Typically, those probes begin with the nominee’s adult life, but if the White House wanted more information on an earlier period, it could request that.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-the-fbi-investigate-the-kavanaugh-accusations-1537452001

justtxyank · Sep 27, 2018

Bobbythegreat said: ↑

That's not really a question that can be answered by him though is it? He can say that it didn't happen, but can he say that he's not the basis for the character that someone else wrote?
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Well he could say "That event never happened with me" or "I don't know who his character is based off of but I wasn't the person in the situation he described." Instead he kept saying "ask him."

If someone asked you "Bobby, are you the person referenced in this book that commits murder?" would you say "you'd have to ask them"? Or would you say you didn't commit murder.

DreamShook · Sep 27, 2018

What happened Lindsey Graham? he was supposed to be the new McCain, now he is firmly suckling from the teet of Trump.

JayGoogle · Sep 27, 2018

Graham really going to refer to Bill F'n Cosby?

The guy who got away with it for decades? Really?

KingCheetah · Sep 27, 2018

Lindsey was doing so well then he 'brought it to hell' ... too much Lindsey too much!

Bobbythegreat · Sep 27, 2018

justtxyank said: ↑

Well he could say "That event never happened with me" or "I don't know who his character is based off of but I wasn't the person in the situation he described." Instead he kept saying "ask him."

If someone asked you "Bobby, are you the person referenced in this book that commits murder?" would you say "you'd have to ask them"? Or would you say you didn't commit murder.
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If they clearly named the character after you then you'd have to explain that you can't say the character was based on you but that you didn't do it.

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