Flake & Coons on 60 Minutes: If Kavanaugh lied, he's done
Scott Pelley: If Judge Kavanaugh is shown to have lied to the committee, the nomination is over?
Sen. Flake and Sen. Coons: Oh, yes. I would think so.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-flake-lindsey-graham-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-inside-the-decision-to-delay-confirmation-hearing/
Flake says this is tearing the country apart. Sounds to me like he's looking for a way to stop the nomination. Since he's not running for reelection, he can do this without fearing party retaliation. Granted he was practically forced into this by the woman who confronted him in the elevator, but maybe he's going to stand firm provided the FBI confirms Flake lied under oath, a federal crime.
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Ya think? Republicans, in their desire to put a Trump yes man on the court, are in fact tearing the country apart.
VOTE EM OUT!
He said he got into Yale on his own, with no help from any connections, but his grandfather was a student there. Excerpt follows; full article is here.
By MOLLY OLMSTEAD
SEPT 30, 20183:32 PM
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Some of the more blatantly false statements were far less important, but false nonetheless. He claimed, for example, that the drinking age at Maryland at the time was 18, when in reality by the time he was 18, the drinking age was 21. On Saturday, the Intercept identified yet another minor, but still clear-cut, falsehood.
At one point in the testimony, when Kavanaugh was making the point that he had worked hard and earned his success, Kavanaugh told the committee that he had no connections to Yale before attending. “I have no connections there,” he said. “I got there by busting my tail.”
In reality, Kavanaugh was a legacy student. His grandfather, Everett Edward Kavanaugh, attended Yale as an undergraduate. The Intercept published a photo of a 1928 yearbook as evidence:
The legacy status does not necessarily mean that Kavanaugh would not have been accepted otherwise or that he was allowed in unfairly. But it does mean that in explicitly saying he had “no connections,” he was not telling the truth.
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