Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Veer into Absurd Comedy

Saturday Night Live is necessary to process the pro-
rape faction attempting a take over of the United States.
Above is a head shot of Matt Damon offering a
brilliant depiction of Brett Kavanaugh's appearance
before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Meticulous journalism is insufficient to describe the macabre affair of the rapist wanna-be nominee to the United States Supreme Court.

Committed to the state taking away a woman's right to choose, and other liberties deemed threatening to the Republican Party, Brett Kavanaugh's denial of attempted rape before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary left civilized Americans traumatized and outraged.

Saturday Night Live is necessary, truly.
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The Intercept has consistently offered the most insightful coverage of Kavanaugh, a partisan and personally repulsive figure, leading America into a land of permanent Republican rule.

Mehdi Hasan writes today on solutions:

Only a new FBI investigation into Ford’s allegations, time-limited to a week, now stands in the way of Donald Trump entrenching a hard-right conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation or more.

To be clear, such a majority on the Court would be an utter disaster for women, for people of color, and for the poor. One upside of Kavanaugh’s raw and angry rant on Thursday—he referred to the Democrats on the panel as 'you people,' a 'disgrace,' and accused them of exacting 'revenge on behalf of the Clintons'—is that it exposed the Court for what it is, a partisan on the political battlefield, not a disinterested defender of the Constitution.

So it’s past time for liberals and the left to consider court packing: When they next have control of the House, the Senate and the White House, Democrats should add at least two new seats to the Supreme Court and then fill them, ideally, with left-wing and well-qualified women of color. They could even call it 'court balancing.'

'Pack the courts as soon as we get the chance,' tweeted Indiana University law professor Ian Samuels, the co-host of the popular Supreme Court podcast First Mondays, on the the day Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in June. 'Pack the courts' should be a phrase on par with‘abolish ICE.'

This might sound extreme – but it isn’t. The Constitution allows for Congress to decide on the number of Supreme Court justices. 'There is nothing magical about the number nine,' HuffPost’s Zach Carter observed in June. 'The court was founded in 1789 with just six justices and has included as many as 10, from 1863 to 1866 — when a Republican legislature intentionally shrank the court size to seven justices to prevent President Andrew Johnson from making any appointments.'

Do not believe for a moment that even at this time of maximum peril, the Democratic Party necessarily knows the stakes.

Most, if not all, social questions would be decided without regard to the general welfare and the rule of law. Much of the progress made in the United States in the past 150 years would be eroded, including civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights, and other liberties we take for granted.

Raising Brett Kavanaugh to the highest court in the land is the fulfillment of the Republicans' long game.

As David Brock has stated, "I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us."