Kavanaugh lied under oath
At Slate, Lisa Graves reports that Brett Kavanaugh received stolen emails and lied about it under oath.
Much of Washington has spent the week focusing on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. After the revelations of his confirmation hearings, the better question is whether he should be impeached from the federal judiciary.
I do not raise that question lightly, but I am certain it must be raised.
Newly released emails show that while he was working to move through President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees in the early 2000s, Kavanaugh received confidential memos, letters, and talking points of Democratic staffers stolen by GOP Senate aide Manuel Miranda. That includes research and talking points Miranda stole from the Senate server after I had written them for the Senate Judiciary Committee as the chief counsel for nominations for the minority.
Receiving those memos and letters alone is not an impeachable offense.
No, Kavanaugh should be removed because he was repeatedly asked under oath as part of his 2004 and 2006 confirmation hearings for his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit about whether he had received such information from Miranda, and each time he falsely denied it.
Under oath, in confirmation hearings for a position on an important Appeals Court. That’s bad.
And yet we have a phalanx of lawyers going “but it’s not perjury tho” for some reason, and a bunch of sycophants going “well if it ain’t perjury it ain’t a problem”
Doesn’t matter, but it’s good to know.
You’d think that a judge obstructing the very justice he’s supposed to uphold would kind of matter. Yeah, I know, cats living with dogs these days and all that but a judge gleefully doing something that undermines the integrity of the entire legal system seems, you know, bad.
I mean, I’d expect him to lie under oath but having been caught at it, I’d also expect important gigs to dry up for him. That kind of baseless optimism reminds me of the naive farm-boy that I obviously am.
I’ve seen it argued that congress shouldn’t even be considering one of his picks at the moment because the Supreme Court is likely to be making decisions on Trump in the near future, and having his own man on the bench really would be making a mockery of justice.
You can bet that the Republicans would be doing everything possible to block the hearings if Hillary Clinton was president.