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As you know, the past week included wall to wall coverage of the nomination hearing process before the Senate Judiciary Committee for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Along the way, we were subjected to daily hysterics from committee Democrats and protesters alike. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) had his big I am Spartacus moment, bogus as it was, and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) went down a couple of rabbit holes during her time for questioning which led absolutely nowhere but to the land of embarrassment for her.
Not discussed quite as much, though, was a prolonged line of questioning led by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) which at times sounded as though the senator had taken leave of his senses. The man, I thought, has gone through one too many confirmation hearings. (Leahy boasted that he has been in the Senate since 1974.) The questioning involved Kavanaugh’s service in the early years of the George W. Bush administration as the White House Staff Secretary and his knowledge of some stolen emails from Leahy and other Democrats at the time. Leahy droned on and on and wouldn’t let it go, so I figured he was up to something.
Enter a Democrat super-PAC. The Democratic Coalition (they didn’t exactly break a sweat naming this one), founded by Jon Cooper, a former Obama campaign chair in Long Island, N.Y. and the Democratic Majority Leader of Suffolk County, N.Y. Legislature, along with co-founder Scott Dworkin, a podcaster, filed a criminal complaint with the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice against Kavanaugh claiming he committed perjury in his hearing testimony before the Senate committee. Allegedly, an email has been found from 2002 that indicates Kavanaugh had knowledge that he claims he does not of the stolen emails. I found out about the filing from Twitter – where else? Read more
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