Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) accused Democrats of going on a “fishing trip” for scandals in President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s past.
“For the last few weeks, Democrats have complained endlessly about documents,” he said on the Senate floor Thursday. “First, they said there weren’t enough documents. Then when the Judiciary Committee released a record-breaking number of documents, Democrats complained that there wasn’t enough time to review them all. They then complained that the documents weren’t public. When we made the documents public, Democrats were disappointed to find that they contained no smoking gun.”
Senate Democrats are currently threatening to sue if their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all documents related to Kavanaugh’s time in the George W. Bush White House is denied.
Hatch pointed out that “when Justice Kagan was nominated, the Senate did not ask for, nor did it receive, all of her records from her time in the Obama administration. In fact, the Senate never requested, and the Obama administration never provided, any of Justice Kagan’s records from her time as Solicitor General.”[…]
“Judge Kavanaugh’s court decisions are highly relevant to understanding his legal reasoning,” he emphasized. “The same can’t be said of his White House documents, which more accurately reflect the conveyor-belt process for presidential decision-making.”
Hatch went on to say that although Kavanaugh “may seem like the human incarnation of a vanilla ice cream cone,” he’s “actually something far more sinister."
"Judging by the rhetoric coming from the left, I’m convinced that this minivan-driving carpool dad is actually the second coming of Genghis Khan," he concluded sarcastically.
"It’s time Democrats come home from their fishing trip. We could spend eons angling for scandal in the river of documents the Judiciary Committee has provided us," Hatch argued. "But nothing will bite because there’s nothing there. Democrats know this by now, and it’s time they admit it to the American people. The longer they wait, the more desperate they look."
(Via: TH)
Blog Author's Comments: The Democratic Party and its Leftist followers cannot stand to think about President Trump placing two conservative Justices on the Supreme Court. As a result, they are attempting to stall the proceedings until after the midterm elections with hope that they will win big and be able to shut down Judge Kavanaugh's path to the high court and make Trump a lame duck president for the remainder of his term. This is their only hope and they will do anything they can to achieve their goal.
The National Archives could deliver 1000 boxes of blank paper as Kavanaugh's FOIA request and the democrats would not notice it, because they would not look at it, even one page, this is only a stall tactic. Good job Sen. Hatch, the democrats only deserve ridicule and mockery for what they are doing and who they are.
The Republican Party may finally have learned their lesson from Bork's debacle in 1987. This time out, Hatch and Grassley are doing a good job defending the SCOTUS nominee against the gutter tactics of the left. Do expect more screaming and libels from the Democrats, even after confirmation, because they want to damage his judicial reputation. Let the Democrats whine and complain, just do not delay the confirmation procedure.
