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TexasTowelie

(116,698 posts) Sat Oct 6, 2018, 07:49 AM Oct 2018

Sen. Dick Durbin says Kavanaugh confirmation 'would shake the confidence of millions of Americans'

Illinois’ Democratic senators again blasted Republican President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick as unfit to serve, as Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Friday moved closer to a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday said Kavanaugh’s confirmation “would shake the confidence of millions of Americans and the integrity of our Supreme Court.”

Durbin has been an outspoken opponent of the process to confirm Kavanaugh, trying to push him in a high-wattage public hearing last week to endorse an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations by Christine Blasey Ford.

“We have to think about what it would mean if Judge Kavanaugh were to be confirmed to the Supreme Court with credible sexual assault allegations against him,” Durbin said from the Senate floor on Friday. “Specifically what it would mean to the millions of women across America who were survivors of sexual assault, women who have been scared to come forward with their stories for fear they would be mocked, ridiculed, and shunned.”

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-dick-durbin-brett-kavanaugh-20181005-story.html

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Sen. Dick Durbin says Kavanaugh confirmation 'would shake the confidence of millions of Americans' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP

Republicans don't care. madaboutharry Oct 2018 #1

That's about the size of it. dchill Oct 2018 #2

Precisely Sherman A1 Oct 2018 #3

I understand why Statements like Durbin's have to be made... Guilded Lilly Oct 2018 #4

madaboutharry

(41,348 posts)

1. Republicans don't care.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 08:00 AM

Oct 2018

Republicans see the world through a different lens. Fairness and compromise are not valuable concepts to republicans. People who do not look like them, sound like them, worship like them, love like them, or think like them do not matter.

For them the end justifies the means.

They really don’t care.

dchill

(40,448 posts)

2. That's about the size of it.

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 08:02 AM

Oct 2018

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

3. Precisely

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 08:05 AM

Oct 2018

and well said.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)

4. I understand why Statements like Durbin's have to be made...

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 08:18 AM

Oct 2018

Words are all they have to fling.
But Republicans openly lost their soul during Obama’s Presidency and the sprouting of those seeds happened under Cheney’s puppet reign.
They don’t care but even worse, they don’t care about trying to whitewash the truth that they do not care.

They revel in it.

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