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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:12 PM Sep 2018

Centrist Dems defend tough tactics at Kavanaugh hearing

Senate Democrats up for reelection in strongly pro-Trump states are defending the aggressive tactics their more liberal colleagues on the Judiciary Committee have used to shed light on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's record.

More moderate Democrats who hail from states that President Trump won by double digits in 2016 say they don’t like the lack of civility surrounding this week’s Supreme Court hearings, but they also don’t think liberal colleagues have done anything wrong.

One of those more liberal colleagues, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), caused an uproar on Thursday by making public an email thread that Kavanaugh wrote in 2002, which the Judiciary Committee deemed be "confidential" material.

When Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) warned that such a serious breach of Senate rules could be punished by expulsion from the Senate, Booker – a likely candidate for president in 2020 – responded: “Bring it.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/405485-centrist-dems-defend-tough-tactics-at-kavanaugh-hearing

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Centrist Dems defend tough tactics at Kavanaugh hearing (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
Looks like they are sticking together, good ... at least there's some coordinated opposition uponit7771 Sep 2018 #1
red state democrats are way better than susan Collins JI7 Sep 2018 #2
Which is why we must support Donnelly and Manchin GulfCoast66 Sep 2018 #3

JI7

(89,172 posts)
2. red state democrats are way better than susan Collins
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 10:06 PM
Sep 2018

i think many of them are personally more liberal but they need to appeal to right leaning types to win.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
3. Which is why we must support Donnelly and Manchin
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 10:12 PM
Sep 2018

Even if they are inclined to vote for Kavanaugh now, if Schumer were majorly leader the nomination would never even make it to a vote.

I hate it has come to the point where the president must have the Senate to confirm SC Justices. But McTurtle crossed that Rubicon. No going back for the foreseeable future.

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