Dem presidential candidates call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands before a ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House in Washington. At least two Democratic presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Kamala Harris are calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a new, uninvestigated, allegation of sexual impropriety when he was in college. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday lined up to call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a new, uninvestigated, allegation of sexual impropriety when he was in college.
Kavanaugh was confirmed last October after emotional hearings in the Senate over a sexual assault allegation from his high school years. The New York Times now reports that Kavanaugh faced a separate allegation from his time at Yale University and that the FBI did not investigate the claim. The latest claim mirrors one offered during his confirmation process by Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate who claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a drunken party.
When he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Kavanaugh denied all allegations of impropriety .
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said after the new report that “Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people.” She tweeted: “He must be impeached.”
A 2020 rival, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, tweeted that “Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing. Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.”
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke asserted in a tweeted, “We know he lied under oath. He should be impeached.” He accused the GOP-run Senate of forcing the FBI “to rush its investigation to save his nomination.”
Their comments followed similar ones from Julian Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary, on Saturday night. “It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath,” he tweeted. “He should be impeached and Congress should review the failure of the Department of Justice to properly investigate the matter.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont didn’t refer to impeachment by name in a tweet Sunday, but said he would “support any appropriate constitutional mechanism” to hold Kavanaugh “accountable.”
Later Sunday, Sen. Cory Booker tweeted: “This new allegation and additional corroborating evidence adds to a long list of reasons why Brett Kavanaugh should not be a Supreme Court justice. I stand with survivors and countless other Americans in calling for impeachment proceedings to begin.”
Democrats control the House, which holds the power of impeachment. If the House took that route, a trial would take place in the Senate, where Republicans now have a majority, making it unlikely that Kavanaugh would be removed from office.
Trump, who fiercely defended Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation process, dismissed the latest allegation as “lies.”
In a tweet Sunday, Trump said Kavanaugh “should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.” It wasn’t immediately clear how the Justice Department could come to the justice’s defense.
Trump added that they were “False Accusations without recrimination,” and claimed his accusers were seeking to influence Kavanaugh’s opinions on the bench.
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Now watch this get turned around on these idiots. Whoever the candidate is, the Republican Party will dig all the way back to when that candidate was a teenager. Wow! Do you folks have any idea where that will take us? Think about crazy Bernie and the Russians, or, Warren and her ways of getting ahead. This will get good, or, some will see it as ugly. In the world we livein, "Turnabout is fair play", just saying. Bwah ha ha ha
Come on Joe, get over that election of 2016 already. Like your hero Barack said... "Elections have consequences."
First, the majority of the House must approve an indictment. They rejected these and similar accusations. The accusation must fall in to... "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" (with the exception of Constitutional violations).
A trial results, and that trial is just like any criminal proceeding. This is a political exercise in abuse of powers, and is a threat to our justice system. These Democrats have lost their mind, and it appears you too have lost your mind. You align with insanity and moral chaos often. You are a mysterious bundle of snarky opinions that constantly takes on, and on, and on... only to lose.
Come on Joe... Knock it off already.
Again, we see things differently. Nothing new under the sun.
With respect, may I ask... if they know what goes on there, then tell me, why do they go to those parties? I made sense without yelling. Why do woman yell to make a point? Take Elizabeth Warren for instance. She comes off as one ticked of and miserable woman as she shouts out her lectures.
And then you have the other side, like Christine Margaret Blasey Ford. She whimpered like a beat dog, and then we learned she was a fraud. She should have been ashamed of how she tried to destroy the man and family. Disgusting, and for what?
Come on Joe open your eyes.
She claims to be a psychologist, but has no certification. To qualify as a “psychologist”, an person is required to complete a one-year residency and pass several tough exams, this fraud did not.
Look at the accusers on the committee Joe...
Feinstein in withholding the letter. Booker and his “Spartacus moment”. Blumenthal the Vietnam Hero. Look Joe, they all were caught lying.
What cranks you folks up is the integrity the judge exemplified, far outshines even the best you lefties can bring forward. Jealousy! The Justice has proven honesty beyond all of his accusers.
The issue of her licensure was raised by a right wing blogger that didn’t have his facts straight. Please read the following link so that you no longer spread fake news.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/christine-blasey-ford-psychologist/
Now it comes out that Kav agreed to be a source for a book as long as the writers would lie and say that he refused. Class guy
Funny
https://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-school-officials-cancel-football-game-cheerleaders/story?id=65765969&cid=referral_taboola_feed