Way to go, Mitch. F the demons.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that all 100 senators will soon vote on President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, no matter what results from a closely watched Judiciary Committee set for Thursday.
'Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Up or down on the Senate floor,' an indignant McConnell said in a fiery speech.
'This fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in this Senate in the near future,' he pledged.
Kavanaugh engaged in 31 hours of committee confirmation hearings. But two women have since leveled allegations of sexual assaults that they say happened more than 30 years ago, derailing his confirmation process.
At the Capitol, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch scoffed.
'It's amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute, and that they weren’t brought up earlier in this process' he told reporters.
'And it’s not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap,' Hath said.
President Trump said in New York that 'in my opinion, it's totally political.'
Later in the day he scolded, finger in the air, that Kavanaugh's 'family has suffered. What's going on is not something that should happen.'
McConnell said 'left wing interests' have been 'aided and abetted' by Democratic senators in a bid to squash Kavanaugh's hope of sitting on America's highest court.
He said their goal was to obstruct and 'destroy a man's personal and professional life,' and called the rvelations part of an 'orchestrated, last-minute hit on the nominee.'
'This shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low,' he said, claiming that 'Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated.'
The Senate Judiciary Committee is typically expected to 'favorably report' judicial nominees to the full Senate; that requires a majority of the Republican-controlled panel to give a thumbs-up.
But that's mere tradition, not a law or even a hard-and-fast rule. The majority leader has the power to put any nominee's vote on the floor at any time, provided he gives the other 99 lawmakers appropriate notice and at least 30 hours of debate time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vanaugh-vote-Senate-floor-no-matter-what.html
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that all 100 senators will soon vote on President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, no matter what results from a closely watched Judiciary Committee set for Thursday.
'Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Up or down on the Senate floor,' an indignant McConnell said in a fiery speech.
'This fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in this Senate in the near future,' he pledged.
Kavanaugh engaged in 31 hours of committee confirmation hearings. But two women have since leveled allegations of sexual assaults that they say happened more than 30 years ago, derailing his confirmation process.
At the Capitol, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch scoffed.
'It's amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute, and that they weren’t brought up earlier in this process' he told reporters.
'And it’s not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap,' Hath said.
President Trump said in New York that 'in my opinion, it's totally political.'
Later in the day he scolded, finger in the air, that Kavanaugh's 'family has suffered. What's going on is not something that should happen.'
McConnell said 'left wing interests' have been 'aided and abetted' by Democratic senators in a bid to squash Kavanaugh's hope of sitting on America's highest court.
He said their goal was to obstruct and 'destroy a man's personal and professional life,' and called the rvelations part of an 'orchestrated, last-minute hit on the nominee.'
'This shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low,' he said, claiming that 'Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated.'
The Senate Judiciary Committee is typically expected to 'favorably report' judicial nominees to the full Senate; that requires a majority of the Republican-controlled panel to give a thumbs-up.
But that's mere tradition, not a law or even a hard-and-fast rule. The majority leader has the power to put any nominee's vote on the floor at any time, provided he gives the other 99 lawmakers appropriate notice and at least 30 hours of debate time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vanaugh-vote-Senate-floor-no-matter-what.html
