Why Kavanaugh, and why the rush? TRUMP will NEVER go to jail
Everyone needs to see Roland99's post on this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211170155
Hat tip to Roland99 - this is Trump and all of his criminal cronies' GET OUT OF JAIL strategy
So, why Kavanaugh, and why the rush? This guy is obviously a pig, and has been since the great Clinton Cock Hunt of the late 90s. (he bears a lot of responsibility for the rest of knowing every sordid and sad detail of the Lewinsky saga, rather than just that they had an affair, having written the Starr commission report that was the basis for the impeachment). The Gang Of Predators obviously knew they were going to have big problems with him, leading them to conveniently have letters from women who knew him in high school (he went to an all boys school) just ready to whip out of their pockets at the first sign of trouble.
At first glance, it looks like Trump could just appoint another corporate drone, forget Kavanaugh, and get on with the march to Gilead. There are any number of other horrible monsters who would be happy to ruin the Supreme Court for the rest of my life. But it seems as if Trump is just going to double down, and McConnell is just going to double down, and Kavanaugh is just going to double down. But why? The GOP looks like it may get a shellacking come November, and this will only make it worse. What is so important about getting K. on the court, and so quickly?
Kavanaugh has signaled his fealty to Trump from his opening statement (going on about how "no one" had ever researched a SC candidate so thoroughly - an utterly laughable statement) and many have speculated that Kavanaugh has cut a deal with Trump to vote against his being responsible or indicted as a President. Kavanaugh, in addition to being eminently blackmailable, has also had large debts mysteriously disappear. But here is the real kicker:
In the next Supreme Court session, which starts on the first Monday of October (the 1st, this year) there is a case coming up which is trying to decide whether the "separate sovereigns" exception for double jeopardy should be destroyed. This is the way that people can be charged for federal crimes, and again for state crimes. If this case, Gamble versus the US, ends that exception, that means that Trump can just pardon everyone including himself and never be held accountable at the state level. A lot of people have comforted themselves with the fact that Trump's gang of cronies can still be charged with state level crimes, New York state, for example for his criminal "charity". This case would change all of that. Orrin Hatch has already filed an amicus brief in support of overturning the exception. If I'm right, the GOP is desperate to have this sexual assailant on the court before October 1 so that he can overturn the last path we have of holding the Trump's criminally liable for any of their crimes. THIS is the ultimate get out of jail free strategy that these criminals are counting on, and they know that Kavanaugh - compromised, paid off, GOP apparatchik Kavanaugh - is the one person they can count on to abet their lawless criminality. And, being the GOP, they will probably get away with it. The midterms be damned.
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