Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
This is how batshit crazy the GOP is. They would rather “own the libs” than stick to any kind of moral principle and just replace him with some other right wing nut job.
I’m all for it though. The two moderate republican female senators will likely vote no when the confirmation comes thus putting the GOP into further turmoil. Yay for that.
The one thing that sets kavanaugh apart from other conservative judges is that he has stated basically that the president is above the law while he's in office. Those weren't his words, I don't remember his exact words but it's something like that. He has said he doesn't believe that republican presidents can be indicted or subpoenaed.
However when it came to Clinton and a democrat he had a different point of view.
What he doesn't understand is that what they rule a republican can or can't do also applies to democratic presidents.
I just heard, "Anything is okay, because I'm sure I heard somewhere that Kavanaugh thinks this, I don't know where it was or what he actually said, but I KNOW."
What I don't understand is why you feel okay coming in here and making definitive statements about how what Kavanaugh said was wrong, right after admitting that you don't know what he said.
Let me help you out, sweetie, and don't say I never did anything for you. Here's what Kavanaugh actually said:
“It would be appropriate for Congress to enact a statute providing that any personal civil suits against presidents, like certain members of the military, be deferred while the President is in office."
He also said that criminal investigations are so likely to become political in nature, that they should also be deferred until the President leaves office. One presumes that, if there were sufficient evidence against the President to bring criminal charges, he would leave office by way of impeachment or resignation, although these days, we can't be sure of anything.
So no, he did not suggest that the President is "above the law". He suggested that the law could be twisted into a political weapon. And given what has subsequently happened to HIM, can you really say he was wrong?