"How Long Are You Going To Say The Same Thing"
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, expected to run for president in 2020, said on Thursday that he will release a "confidential" email he claims shows Judge Brett Kavanaugh talking about racial profiling — and urged Republicans to try to expel him for violating Senate rules.
"Bring it," a defiant Booker said. "I’m going to release the email about racial profiling," the New Jersey Democrat said as the third day of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings began in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Booker on Wednesday had asked Kavanaugh about a 2002 document in which, Booker claimed, the then-aide to President George W. Bush considered using racial profiling as a tool to battle terrorism after the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Kavanaugh, for his part, asked to review the email, but Booker tried to move on. Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, though, said that the referenced email had been deemed "confidential" by the committee, which means it cannot be released or used to question a nominee.
In full grandstanding mode, Booker on Thursday said, “I come from a long line as all of us do as Americans of understanding what that kind of civil disobedience is and I understand the consequences,” he said. “I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate. If Senator [John] Cornyn believes that I have violated Senate rules, I openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email.”
Republicans ripped Booker for violating Senate rules. “Running for president is no excuse for violating the rules of the Senate or or of confidentiality of the documents we are privy to," said Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who later read a specific rule barring the use of confidential documents by senators.
(Via: Daily Wire)
Blog Author's Comments: Booker did not want to release his documents because then people would see they were not what he said they were. He simply wanted to gain favorable attention and make it appear to be something important to the hearing. The so-called 'confidential' Kavanaugh emails did not exist which the fool Cory Booker boasted about. They had been cleared, despite the dramatic claim by Booker of defying Senate rules.
The Democrats have turned a serious event in history, into an extremely bizarre side show. They have shown for anyone that is interested, who and what they are and why they should never be allowed to gain political power or be trusted again. All of Booker's drama was for nothing, aside from his attempting to make political points for the 2020 election.
Committee Chairman Charles Grassley should have called the Democrat members bluff. And threaten to eject members of the Judiciary Committee from the Senate who refused to conduct themselves in a professional manner. The left has nothing to stop Judge Kavanaugh, so this is all they could do, in a attempt to make a name for themselves at the expense of the government and Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
All of this political theater by the Democrats and their very close cohorts the mainstream media, and the fact that the Democrats on the committee have made a sham of the confirmation procedure, made little difference to CNN, CBS or NBC. Even after Booker's claim to fame bubble was popped, they ran with the 'fake news' story for hours even though they knew what they were reporting was more lies.
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