EXCERPT:
Kavanaugh’s history was a concern when he was first nominated for the federal bench in 2004, but he managed then to get confirmed with only limited doubt about his ability to tell the truth under oath. This year, when his Senate confirmation hearings began on September 4, the concerns about his integrity were still there, but Kavanaugh was protected from his own record because the White House kept most of it secret. Kavanaugh’s refusal to give full and complete answers to questions about his career as a political operative prompted the first formal ethics complaints (even before the Dr. Christime Blasey Ford story broke). One of those complaints, filed by attorney J. Whitfield Larrabee on behalf of two clients – all “under penalty of perjury” – summed up the case against Kavanaugh this way:
Kavanaugh received stolen information taken from Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee while he worked in the White House and he perjured himself while testifying about the matter in Congress in 2004, 2006 and 2018. Kavanaugh violated Canons 1 and 2 of Code of Judicial Conduct by committing crimes of dishonesty while he was a federal judge, by obtaining confirmation of his appointment as a federal judge by false and perjurious testimony, by concealing and covering up his criminal actions and by obstructing justice. He is unfit to serve as a judge by reason of his corrupt, unscrupulous, dishonest and criminal conduct.
15 October 18
RSN: William Boardman | Will Federal Judges Cover Kavanaugh's Butt - or Whup It?
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "The stakes are as high as they are simple: will our court system choose to defend the position one of its own members or will it choose to defend the integrity of the US judicial system. There is no possibility it can do both with any credibility."
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William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "The stakes are as high as they are simple: will our court system choose to defend the position one of its own members or will it choose to defend the integrity of the US judicial system. There is no possibility it can do both with any credibility."
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