4 ms·

Wonder if this every happened before. There was time for people to respond before the final senate vote maybe, which is not that common, but usually people goin

Wonder if this every happened before. There was time for people to respond before the final senate vote maybe, which is not that common, but usually people going up to be one of the supremes don't get that kind of questioning, and also are more composed. Even the ABA rescinded their support. I feel sorry for Kavanaugh a little bit - his whole life he's probably been going for it. Suppose you are a cs researcher and you are about to be elected to the national academy of engineering or get the turing award or something and then all this stuff comes out that you thought was dead and buried forever. But I can't lose sight of the impact of his testifying the second time. The clear disqualifying action was lying under oath about his life, getting crazy upset, and then making allegations about a conspiracy against him - we can't have someone on the supreme court who does that kind of stuff. We'll never know if the claimed rapes and other actions against him when he was young were true (but I guess I believe them), but it's his in-court actions that settle it.

throwaway5250 8y ago
That letter seemed almost content-free, and I'm surprised that they didn't try to make a stronger argument. I would be interested in knowing what his specific lie under oath was. (Apparently his accusers have been caught in several.)
- Latteland 8y ago
  I don't want to get political, but I think the thing they think he lied about was his description of his college years wasn't honest, it was apparently very dishonest. According to many reports but not from him, including from his roommate, he was drinking a lot, got into fight drunk, didn't remember things afterwards, and was kind of rude and ugly when drunk. He wasn't just lifting weights and doing service work to help people. It's hard to know what to think of the accusations of terrible behavior toward women when he was probably drunk, because he might not remember the details when he blacked out. But it's the other things, lying about his lifestyle. It's not the lifestyle itself (I used to drink a lot in college like a lot of people that age), it's lying about it under oath.
  - throwaway5250 8y ago
    Thanks for the answer. Back when it happened, I didn't think Bill Clinton's lying about having sex with his intern ought to be actionable, or even something people should care about. Guess I feel the same way about this.

throwaway5250 8y ago

That letter seemed almost content-free, and I'm surprised that they didn't try to make a stronger argument. I would be interested in knowing what his specific lie under oath was. (Apparently his accusers have been caught in several.)

Latteland 8y ago
I don't want to get political, but I think the thing they think he lied about was his description of his college years wasn't honest, it was apparently very dishonest. According to many reports but not from him, including from his roommate, he was drinking a lot, got into fight drunk, didn't remember things afterwards, and was kind of rude and ugly when drunk. He wasn't just lifting weights and doing service work to help people. It's hard to know what to think of the accusations of terrible behavior toward women when he was probably drunk, because he might not remember the details when he blacked out. But it's the other things, lying about his lifestyle. It's not the lifestyle itself (I used to drink a lot in college like a lot of people that age), it's lying about it under oath.
- throwaway5250 8y ago
  Thanks for the answer. Back when it happened, I didn't think Bill Clinton's lying about having sex with his intern ought to be actionable, or even something people should care about. Guess I feel the same way about this.