Comments on: Committee votes to take Kavanaugh confirmation to the full Senate… https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 01 Oct 2018 05:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406451 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 05:08:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406451 ColoComment on September 30, 2018 at 2:19 pm at 2:19 pm said:
“It’s actually #251; the comment system there is kind of “off” when you open a link in a new that.”
How odd. I went in and out of PP’s post and the related commentary multiple times. And it was always at #247. I wonder if some comments were held in moderation and later released and inserted themselves before Beldar’s comment? Does that happen?
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Everything is possible on the internet.
Thanks for the link – I used to read Volokh regularly as well, but now Neo’s blog takes up all my energy!

]]> By: ColoComment https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406372 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:19:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406372 “It’s actually #251; the comment system there is kind of “off” when you open a link in a new that.”
How odd. I went in and out of PP’s post and the related commentary multiple times. And it was always at #247. I wonder if some comments were held in moderation and later released and inserted themselves before Beldar’s comment? Does that happen?
Yes, I was a loyal reader of Beldar’s blog in “olden times.” He briefly resumed during Harvey. I still have his blog in my bookmarks in the hope that he will be moved to again offer his legal insights on current events.

Fyi, Eugene Volokh has some interesting info re: the history of Maryland misdemeanor law. Here: http://reason.com/volokh/2018/09/29/maryland-misdemeanor-law

]]> By: bof https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406324 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 06:41:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406324 With all due respect to our esteemed blogress: The problem is not the 17th amendment, it’s the 19th.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406299 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:55:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406299 “that” should be “tab” and edit is not working along with the other problems today.

PS – Patterico’s fans found some good posts at Babylon Bee; this one was sadly much too believable.

https://babylonbee.com/news/confirmed-unpleasant-facial-expressions-now-admissible-as-evidence-of-guilt

“The moment the face-finder discovers an unkind looking facial expression, the FBI sends armored vehicles and SWAT to the perpetrator’s house and the person is convicted and locked up without a hearing. “When a person makes a bad guy face, you don’t need to do any more digging than that,” said FBI special agent Carl Germain. “They’re bad. Their face says it all.”

“We can’t believe we never thought of this before,” said chief adviser on the project, Annabelle Hanson. “If you think about it, it’s exactly the way the world works in cartoons. Bad guys make mean faces, and therefore they are bad. It turns out that really is all there is to it.”

FBI agents and law enforcement across the country say this new method has already surpassed the polygraph as an infallible way of detecting a person’s hidden guilt. Other new CSI techniques that are still in development include deciphering yearbook messages, retranslating twitter fumbles, and taking jokes completely seriously.”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406298 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:50:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406298 ColoComment on September 29, 2018 at 11:29 am at 11:29 am said:
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Beldar’s comment is at No. 247, here: http://patterico.com/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-ill-vote-for-kavanaugh/#comment-2155314
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It’s actually #251; the comment system there is kind of “off” when you open a link in a new that.
I only go to Patterico these days if I know Beldar is on hand. Sure wish he still had his own blog active.

]]> By: ColoComment https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406295 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:43:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406295 Ed Bonderenka on September 29, 2018 at 3:22 pm at 3:22 pm said:
The Oxbow Incident, which I watched a couple weeks ago, is an apt metaphor.
Advise and Consent is good background for this also.
Surprise witness before the Senate Subcommittee and all the machinations.
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Indeed. Allen Drury wrote some wicked good novels about D.C. (Or should that be: Allen Drury wrote some good novels about wicked D.C.?) 😉

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406277 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 23:38:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406277 Julie near Chicago on September 29, 2018 at 3:33 pm at 3:33 pm said:
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Personally, I find AesopFan’s speculation above at 10:32 p.m. as to the oncoming onslaught to be credible and terrifying. .

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It is indeed terrifying; I was quoting J. E. Dyer’s post, and she is a very credible analyst.

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406250 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:37:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406250 Neo, that’s an interesting observation about Dersh. I must say that never occurred to me.

Thanks also for your observation about “Not that I recall” and similar statements. Makes perfect sense to me. I did think that Mr. Kavanaugh was being very lawerly when he kept reiterating that point.

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In a posting today you pointed out places where Dr. Ford herself said she hadn’t known for instance about the offer that the Judiciary would come to her if she desired. Yes, good points.

I surely wish Ms. Mitchell or the Republicans had drilled down on those claims.

]]> By: MB https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406244 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:57:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406244 Surely, if the FBI knows on which side its toast is buttered (where its budget comes from), it will say that it cannot elucidate such a complex matter in only one week and needs more time to conduct a thorough inquiry.
And then “everyone” will agree enthusiastically, because if you cannot trust the FBI whom can you trust. FBI is above partisan political games. Deadlines are arbitrary and hint at a coverup attempt. In the interest of transparency, etc., etc..
Next will come the calls for an independent investigation. The FBI is part of the executive branch and does not have the necessary independence to investigate a member of the judicial branch, in service to the legislative branch.
So, a week or two from now: independent prosecutor, here we come!

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2018/09/28/committee-votes-to-take-kavanaugh-confirmation-to-the-full-senate/#comment-2406240 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:54:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=81025#comment-2406240 Julie near Chicago:

I have long found Dershowitz to be a somewhat puzzling combination of extremely sharp and fair, and naive. He is naive about the level to which Democrats will go, naive about the FBI and what it has already done, he was naive about Obama and Israel for a long, long time—Dershowitz is just plain naive in many ways, and that’s how he manages to remain a Democrat.

As for the statements of the supposed witnesses, that’s a very standard way to deny so that at no point can you be accused of perjury. Lawyers virtually always advise people to use that form for their denials.

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