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Brett Kavanaugh is not telling the whole truth. When President George W. Bush nominated him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2006, he told senators that he’d had nothing to do with the war on terror’s detention policies; that was not true. Kavanaugh also claimed under oath, that year and again this month, that he didn’t know that Democratic Party memos a GOP staffer showed him in 2003 were illegally obtained; his emails from that period reveal that these statements were probably false. And it cannot be possible that the Supreme Court nominee was both a well-behaved virgin who never lost control as a young man, as he told Fox News and the Senate Judiciary Committee this past week, and an often-drunk member of the “Keg City Club” and a “Renate Alumnius ,” as he seems to have bragged to many people and written into his high school yearbook. Then there are the sexual misconduct allegations against him, which he denies. How could a man who appears to valu...

 “ I like beer ... I still like beer .” - Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee Their expressions say it all: He doesn't belong on the court. Ford was incredibly credible: Kavanaugh's famous calendar may actually point to his guilt. Lindsay Graham goes on the attack to help ol' Brett. The takeaway:

Very intriguing, considering that at the time, Kavanaugh was an official in the Bush administration: After the trip, there’s lots of virtual high-fiving all around, including an email from Kavanaugh in which he talks about gambling, getting aggressive and keeping secrets. That email was dated Sept. 10, 2001. "Very, very vigilant w/r/t confidentiality on all issues and fronts, including with spouses." What's the secrecy about??? Doesn't seem like such secrecy is warranted for a simple gambling trip. I'm guessing he knew something about the very imminent 9/11 attacks. UPDATE: interesting that even though BK will help Trump, and in theory GWBush and Trump are opposed to each other, GWBush is pushing for BK's confirmation and whipping votes. Why does GWBush feel like he needs to push BK onto the SCOTUS?

I believe his accusers Christine Blasey-Ford, Debbie Ramirez and Julie Swetnick. This deposition from Swetnick is horrific: Kavanaugh's roommate indicates Kavanaugh was not the choir boy he pretends to be; From a FoxNews interview with Kavanaugh: Yeah, right! It's outrageous that Republicans are trying to ram this scum Kavanaugh through without proper investigation of these allegations. Kavanaugh's good friend Mark Judge also is a real piece of work , and it's outrageous he is not testifying about the events Blasey-Ford describes.

Jennifer Wright: Taking away people’s passports and citizenship is a precursor to genocide. It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border. Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis. Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post. The Washington Post ...

Praise the lord, because Manafort has the goods on Trump . CHECKMATE: THE MANAFORT COOPERATION IS PARDON PROOF (Emptywheel) Here's some of the goods on Trump that Manafort likely can nail down, from Seth Abramson: Trump let the Kremlin WRITE his foreign policy as he was NEGOTIATING a business deal with the Kremlin, and did so though he KNEW Russia was committing crimes against America. Anyone who says that's not collusion can be ignored; anyone asking for proof can read PROOF OF COLLUSION. 1/ Trump's foreign policy's authors: Paul Manafort, Russian agent in debt at least $17 million to one of Putin's "2 or 3" top allies; Richard Burt, lobbyist for a Kremlin-owned gas company; George Papadopoulos, self-described Kremlin intermediary; Dimitri Simes, Putin's "friend." 2/ At the time these men wrote Trump's foreign policy, his personal lawyer (Michael Cohen) and business partner (Felix Sater) were in ACTIVE ("hot") negotiations wit...

Yep, America's Worst Human Is Still President Here’s what the President of the United States has been up to: 3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000.... ...This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico! (from Trump's twitter) I think I’m never quite unaware that the president of the United States is insanely awful. Like probably most other people, I wear it around at all times, like a sodden and rotting wool sweater, scratchy at my neck and damp in my armpits and always, always, inescapably reeking. But still. Sometimes that awfu...

The Onion from  September 2001 has held up well. Meanwhile, we have this doofus as president:

This crisis was completely predictable because from the very beginning, it was clear Trump was incredibly unfit for the job-- frighteningly ignorant, massively dishonest, basically amoral, had no regard for the law and knew very little about the presidency and democracy. He was an authoritarian at heart, who only admired dictators. As detailed most recently by Bob Woodward in his most recent White House expose "Fear", Trump is intellectually stunted, completely ignorant and obnoxious, often unhinged and makes wild, poorly thought out decisions. This was reinforced yesterday by an unprecedented NYT opinion piece from an anonymouse senior White House official. The official writes that Cabinet members witnessed enough instability by their boss that there were “early whispers” of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office but decided instead to avoid a constitutional crisis and work within the administration to contain him. “Many Trump appointees have vowed to do wh...