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Home Front: Politix
Catholic magazine 'un-endorses' Brett Kavanaugh, American Bar Association demands an FBI investigation
2018-09-28
Prof. Ford and high-powered legal team provided absolutely no evidence.
[THE WEEK] Not everyone was as impressed with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's testimony Thursday as the man who nominated him, President Trump. Hours after the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing adjourned and a Friday morning confirmation vote affirmed, the American Bar Association urged the Senate to hit pause until after an FBI investigation and the prominent Jesuit magazine America rescinded its endorsement of Kavanaugh and urged his nomination withdrawn.

America's editors and the ABA gave similar reasons: Christine Blasey Ford's assault testimony was credible enough to merit a full investigation, and America needs to have confidence in the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, a Catholic who attended a Jesuit high school, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), his most impassioned supporter, both held up the ABA's unanimous well-qualified rating in Thursday's hearing as a marker of his character and judgment.

"The basic principles that underscore the Senate's constitutional duty of advice and consent on federal judicial nominees require nothing less than a careful examination of the accusations and facts by the FBI," ABA president Robert Carlson wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senate's reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court."
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  Just another demonstration of poor moral judgement by Catholics who spent the last 75 years ignoring allegations and they pick these flimsy accusations to jump to action.

Remember the kennedys, Tim Kaines and Pelosi’s still receive communion without concern.
Posted by: Airandee   2018-09-28 17:14  

#17  This delay is simply so they can keep up the train of false accusations. I think this entire thing has been a criminal operation attempting to intimidate the senate. Bet if the NSA did a full scrape of every democrat involved's phone and computer, the whole thing was laid out months ago..

They will rue the day they started this though.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-09-28 16:18  

#16  I am told by a former FBI agent that any investigation at all would take at least a month, and that it would take a week or more just to set up the investigating team. I am sure as few good PIs would uncover at least as much as the FBI in that time frame - and I suspect the Dems have already employed such, and come up dry.
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-09-28 15:49  

#15  They walk Contrary to The Lord.
Posted by: newc   2018-09-28 15:37  

#14  Jesuit rag - and about as lefty as it gets, a miserable blob of heterodox and heretical socialist in clerical collars. Most of the boy buggerers have Jesuit protectors like Fr Matin.

https://spectator.org/the-liberal-jesuit-captivity-of-the-papacy/

Posted by: Boss Spoper5850   2018-09-28 14:22  

#13  Jesuit rag - and about as lefty as it gets, a miserable blob of heterodox and heretical socialist in clerical collars. Most of the boy buggerers have Jesuit protectors like Fr Matin.

https://spectator.org/the-liberal-jesuit-captivity-of-the-papacy/

Posted by: Boss Spoper5850   2018-09-28 14:22  

#12  When did Ms. Ford's naughty bits become a Federal Reservation?
Posted by: Chuckles Glung6768   2018-09-28 13:37  

#11  So the Communists and the Jesuits aren't pleased?

Communist and Jesuit is essentially the same thing.
Posted by: Pearl Speaking for Boskone2513   2018-09-28 11:47  

#10  
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-09-28 11:38  

#9  The American Bar Association was taken over by leftists over 20 years ago, and no longer deserves to be considered an impartial arbiter of judges' qualifications. Hence the drop in membership numbers. Believe it or not most lawyers are more interested in putting food on the table than political activism. As Professor Reynolds likes to say, "Get Woke, Go Broke."
Posted by: BrujoTejano   2018-09-28 10:34  

#8  So the deep state trainers and pedophile enablers are trying to take him down as well?

Good. Hold the vote and to hell with these groups.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-09-28 09:57  

#7  Catholic magazine: "Priests have been convicted transferred to unaware parishes for less!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-09-28 08:46  

#6  ABA to Slash Dues Amid Membership Drop
Roughly 15 percent of U.S. lawyers paid dues to the ABA last year. The association hopes cheaper memberships will boost that figure.
By Roy Strom | August 06, 2018 at 04:03 PM
Posted by: Hupusing Claitch6798   2018-09-28 08:21  

#5  So the Communists and the Jesuits aren't pleased?

All the more reason to confirm him.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-09-28 07:57  

#4  We go to the Catholic Church, but we have no faith or loyalty to the so-called leadership of it in Rome. Many in our local church seem to feel the same way, deciding to focus on what OUR church is doing here, locally to help and be what we should be. (Insert bad language here) them.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-09-28 07:55  

#3  He got the envelope didn't he ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-09-28 07:47  

#2  I'll bet they're still happy than avanati is still a member...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-09-28 07:40  

#1  ...prominent Jesuit magazine America rescinded its endorsement of Kavanaugh

As if there were not troubles enough in their own tent.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-09-28 07:30  

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