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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts) Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:37 AM Sep 2018

Hatch slams Democrats for 'character assassination' of Kavanaugh

SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Orrin Hatch slammed Democrats Monday for "partisan games and transparent attempts at character assassination" against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

"No innuendo has been too low, no insinuation too dirty. Everything is an excuse for delay, no matter how unsubstantiated," the Utah Republican said in a statement, calling for a vote on Kavanaugh after he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

The retiring senator, who participated in the confirmations of every member of the high court during his 42 years in office, called the new allegation that has surfaced against Kavanaugh a continuation of "a smear campaign."

The New Yorker reported Sunday that during the 1983-84 academic year, Kavanaugh's first year at Yale University, a female classmate said he exposed himself at a dormitory party.

Read more: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900033396/hatch-slams-democrats-for-character-assassination-of-kavanaugh.html

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Hatch slams Democrats for 'character assassination' of Kavanaugh (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP

I don't care. Iliyah Sep 2018 #1

Then call the FBI and quit yammering about it. C_U_L8R Sep 2018 #2

Says the man atreides1 Sep 2018 #3

"No innuendo has been too low, no insinuation too dirty..." dchill Sep 2018 #4

1991, Hatch said the same thing about critics of Carence Thomas. John1956PA Sep 2018 #5

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

1. I don't care.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:40 AM

Sep 2018

C_U_L8R

(45,693 posts)

2. Then call the FBI and quit yammering about it.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:41 AM

Sep 2018

Geez.

atreides1

(16,386 posts)

3. Says the man

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:43 AM

Sep 2018

With the invisible glasses!!!

dchill

(40,475 posts)

4. "No innuendo has been too low, no insinuation too dirty..."

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:50 AM

Sep 2018

for Hatch and the Republican Party to use against Democrats, and anyone else who mentions the FBI and Kavanaugh in the same sentence. Why is NO other Republican on the committee demanding an investigation? Is it really OK to put a rapist on the Supreme Court?

John1956PA

(3,374 posts)

5. 1991, Hatch said the same thing about critics of Carence Thomas.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 08:57 AM

Sep 2018

In the televised 1991 hearings, Hatch said that the opposition against Clarence Thomas was being led by "smart lawyers" who were manipulating the history of Thomas's career and personal life. Hatch used that term, "smart lawyers," at least three times in the space of less than a minute in an attempt to persuade viewers that Thomas was being victimized by unscrupulous attorneys working on behalf of the Democrats.

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