A law professor who works with juvenile offenders believes that the judge’s behavior during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment.
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The Back-Up Way of Defeating Kavanaugh
Assume the worst: Let’s posit that within a week, despite the evidence of his abuses when young, his temperament when middle-aged, and his unyieldingly troglodytic beliefs at all times, Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. That, of course, would create the first hard-right majority on the Court since 1937—a majority dead-set against […]
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Will the Republicans Dump Kavanaugh?
It all comes down to the FBI’s investigation.Â
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A Very Tarnished Court
Kavanaugh, or his replacement, will be the fifth Republican justice sitting illegitimately.Â
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The Best Explanation for Ford’s and Kavanaugh’s Conflicting Stories
Christine Blasey Ford was scarred for life. Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t have any reason to remember it.
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What Will the FBI Actually Investigate — If Anything?
Conundrums from the Flake proposal
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Trump and Kavanaugh: Sexualized Dominance and Executive Power
By scheduling the committee vote on the Supreme Court nominee just after his accuser’s testimony, Republicans show they’ll be listening to her with their fingers in their ears—and that they’re ready to confirm a justice with expansive views of executive privilege.
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Why Republicans Are Fighting so Hard for Brett Kavanaugh
They could easily replace him with a nominee who would vote exactly the same way on the Supreme Court. But they won’t.
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SeaWorld’s and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene
The Supreme Court nominee showed more concern for overregulation than worker safety in a U.S. Court of Appeals case involving the death of a whale trainer.
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I Know Why Sexually Assaulted Women Resist Coming Forward; I’ve Been There
To name your attacker is to invite vilification by a society more inclined to believe him than you.
