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Rhiannon12866

(222,294 posts) Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:25 PM Oct 13

'Obscene': New report details Trump's protection of Kavanaugh from sexual assault probe - Velshi - MSNBC

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse released a bombshell report this week accusing the Trump White House of thwarting an FBI probe into sexual assault allegations made against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 nomination process. The latest scandal adds to a growing list of controversies amid polls showing that public faith in the nation’s highest court continues to plummet. Meanwhile calls for Supreme Court reforms are intensifying, including President Joe Biden's recent proposals for 18-year term limits for justices and a binding code of ethics.

“Every official in this country– local, county, state, other federal– everybody is subject to basic fact-finding if there’s an allegation made about their misconduct,” says Sen. Whitehouse, who released the damning report this week. “There are only nine people in government, anywhere, who have literally no responsibility to either tell the truth about what they did, or have neutral fact-finding about what they did– and that is the nine justices of the Supreme Court.” - Aired on 10/13/2024.

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'Obscene': New report details Trump's protection of Kavanaugh from sexual assault probe - Velshi - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 13 OP

Billionaire Gift Program! BOSSHOG Oct 13 #1

I agree with you on both points. Rhiannon12866 Oct 13 #2

BOSSHOG

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1. Billionaire Gift Program!

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:47 PM

Oct 13

Senator Whitehouse is a gem

Another example, the party of ethics and accountability wants nothing to do with either. Early in his career, Hitler said he didn’t want the legislature, he wanted the judiciary.

I’m not too crazy about expanding the court. Just more toys for the kids with patience to play with. I’d prefer a legitimate mechanism to get rid of and replace those who are provably corrupt. That would be so easy to do right now.

Rhiannon12866

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2. I agree with you on both points.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:54 PM

Oct 13

And you're right, the judiciary has become - of all things - a danger to human rights in this country. And it's rapidly getting egregiously worse. And "expanding the court" will not get rid of the danger, it's long past time to expunge the past and growing corruption.

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