{"id":33738,"date":"2018-09-17T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33738"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:36:13","slug":"when-will-we-meet-christine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/when-will-we-meet-christine\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will We Meet Christine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As hard as I worked on yesterday&#8217;s article, the story kept developing, even as I was writing it, and just as I was publishing it, the news broke that Christine Blasey Ford had come forward and passed a lie detector test.\u00a0 Upchuck Snake in the Grassley [R-IA] says this is Democrats fault, because she came forward so late.\u00a0 Orin &#8220;Women are Inferior&#8221; Hatch, trotted out that age old saw, &#8220;She&#8217;s just mixed up.&#8221;\u00a0 Pervert Kava-Nazi has changed his tune.\u00a0 He now claims he wasn&#8217;t even at the party, where he tried to rape Christine.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s look at what could happen, but before we do, this is where we were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RdeLWyZMsWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when Christine first came out<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RdeLWyZMsWg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here are ways forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0917ford-kavanaugh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0917ford-kavanaugh.jpg\" alt=\"0917ford-kavanaugh\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fight over Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court nomination looks much different after Christine Blasey Ford came forward in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault\/2018\/09\/16\/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.5d76a4948b9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post interview<\/a> and said that he attempted to sexually assault her when the two were in high school. What happens next? Will President Trump and Senate Republicans stick with Kavanaugh? Right now, we have more questions than answers. Here are the big ones \u2026<\/p>\n<p>How do the looming midterms affect Republicans\u2019 choices? A big part of this story comes down to timing. An investigation of the allegations, as Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/09\/16\/648535858\/democrats-calls-to-delay-kavanaugh-vote-after-his-accuser-goes-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for<\/a>, would almost certainly take at least a few weeks. And if Republicans decided in mid-October that they could not move forward with Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination, they might not have time to choose a new nominee and get him or her through the confirmation process before the current Senate session ends in December. The Supreme Court nomination process for Kavanaugh was scheduled to last about three months \u2014 from Justice Anthony Kennedy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/anthony-kennedy-retire-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation in late June<\/a> to a full Senate vote on Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination, which was expected <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/406120-mcconnell-predicts-senate-vote-on-kavanaugh-in-last-week-of-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in late September<\/a> \u2014 at least until this news broke. So if Republicans want to move on from Kavanaugh and try to get a different nominee confirmed, they probably need to pick that person during the next two weeks in order to finish the process by the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s wrong with waiting till January? Well, Republicans are expected to maintain control of the Senate \u2014 they\u2019re 2 in 3 favorites according to our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2018-midterm-election-forecast\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate forecast<\/a> \u2014 <strong>but if Democrats gain control, it\u2019s hard to imagine them confirming a second Trump appointee to the court. So the GOP has some incentive to either fully stand behind Kavanaugh \u2014 or abandon him very quickly<\/strong>. Remember, the current Senate, which has 51 Republicans and 49 members aligned with the Democrats, is in operation through the end of the year. The people elected in November don\u2019t start serving immediately. So Republicans, no matter what happens in the midterms, can push a Supreme Court nominee through until the end of the year. There would be strong criticism of Republicans if they pushed through a Supreme Court nominee in December if the voters had elected a Democratic Senate a month earlier, but Senate Republicans have ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/17\/us\/politics\/martha-roby-alabama-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such norms before<\/a> and I expect would be fine with doing so again for the purpose of ensuring a solid conservative majority on the Court&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/what-happens-to-brett-kavanaughs-nomination-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Republicans still plan to vote Pervert Kava-Nazi out of committee on Thursday.\u00a0 Jeff Flake [R-AZ] could put the kibosh on that.\u00a0 I hope we get to meet Christine, under oath, soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There&#8217;s one thing I can tell you with certainty.\u00a0 I have no idea where this issue will be this time tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">50 DAYS!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as I worked on yesterday&#8217;s article, the story kept developing, even as I was writing it, and just as I was publishing it, the news broke that Christine Blasey Ford had come forward and passed a lie detector test.\u00a0 Upchuck Snake in the Grassley [R-IA] says this is Democrats fault, because she came <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/when-will-we-meet-christine\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}