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Nevermind that even if this is true, someone with that (admittedly relatable, but utterly disqualifying) disposition should never occupy the robe of the most impartial, scholarly, constitutionally principled justice in the entire country

Should have been a “No”

You know how you change your entire belief system to appeal to a political ideology so you can have "friends"? JFC someone that's capable of writing something this stupid gets to teach at Harvard? How the mighty have fallen.

Kavanaugh was maneuvered by Mitch McConnell www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

Well, he did go to bat for ACB and then found his thin skin when called on it by students; how dare they blame him or criticize upward?

Today in "only liberals have agency"....

lol what’a the hypothetical alternative? He becomes a dumber Roberts-lite? Doesn’t lead to much different in terms of real outcomes.

Funnily enough if he would have kept his friends if he had gone the same way as his predecessor

LOL. "I believe Kavanaugh really valued his ties across the ideological spectrum" is world-class short bus nonsense for anyone who understands what he did with Kenneth Starr. He is a rabid partisan on a mission. Even those can fake comity to keep a cushy Ivy League job.

Far from the biggest issue, but I need to point out that he spelled Christine *Blasey* Ford’s middle name wrong

So we have someone with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court who is so emotionally weak that he interprets the Constitution and US laws based entirely on his feelings about who likes him? K.

He tries to ingratiate himself with the GOP—preserving their favor for a future nomination—while also displaying some (highly superficial) ‘institutionalist’ tendencies Issue is, he can’t erase that first confirmation fiasco; and Roberts will cling to power until Kavanaugh ages out of viability

Brett Kavanaugh's burning desire to be Chief Justice of the United States has forced him to join the Supreme Court's conservative bloc.

So...nah, K's just a dick, then?

So he's basically saying that Kavanaugh's an emotionally needy, insecure man with no intellectual integrity. Sounds about right.

Kavanaugh is a rapist. That pretty much confirms he's a conservative, right there.

incredible that there’s a woman named “Christine Blassi Ford”, what are the odds there’d be two women with accusations against Kavanaugh having so similar a name

if liberals don't have a big enough tent to include rapists, then kavanaugh is just gonna have to be a conservative ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Justice Kavanaugh is a social person. He needs friends.” That’s BART to you, thank you very much.

Justice "See What You Made Me Do" Kavanaugh

I read this hours ago and still am dumbfounded.

What is with these grown men they don’t know how to make friends or keep friends? Dershowitz also moaned and groaned that he lost all his friends when he went all MAGA.

Did he forget Kavanaugh's role in the Bush administration, identifying super right wing judicial prospects? Or his part in the Brooks Brothers riot?

It’s always been insufferable when pundits reason from personal connections this way, but the elite law school version has become viscerally repulsive in a way that feels somewhat new. Were the Kavanaugh hearings the tipping point, or Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld…?

"Look what you made me do!"

That Noah Feldman from impeachment 1.0 was a fine enough fellow. Whatever happened to him?

He really did the "forced me to be a Nazi" cartoon?!

So it is all the woman's fault that he became a right wing asshole?

Lol @ "he needs friends." Smacks of more male loneliness apologia.

The Joker has an origin story that isn’t so different. It doesn’t make him a good guy Noah.

Hey justices need friends too, ok? Leave Brettaney alone

imagine how much they’d be complaining if they didn’t control all three branches of the government the collaborationist court media and a death cult of mindless nazi zombies

Kavanaugh according to Feldman, basically:

I'm confused, this explanation would mean an elite rightwinger is responsible for his own choices and actions and I'm positive that's not a thing.

Which, TBF, was something he admitted (or threatened, depending on your POV) at his confirmation when he said that what goes around comes around.

I still remember her testimony that she escaped and ran to the bathroom because it resonated with me so much because that’s the exact place I ran to for safety from my attacker.

he's just a smol rapist bean who was forced to serve in a position far above his gifts or education

Stunning and brave

Matt Bors: in my comic I show someone adopting an abhorrent personality in response to liberal judgement as a cautionary tale Conservatives: We have developed abhorrent personalities in response to liberal judgement like in that one Matt Bors comic

his evidence that Kav used to be a centrist is that even his liberal law school students liked him, because who would law students be more honest with about how they felt about a professor than one of his professor friends at the same school

With great power comes great responsibility…unless you’re a conservative Supreme Court Justice. In a side note, one of his interns should hand Kavanaugh a binder with all of the news articles detailing how the guy that appointed him has wrecked families and friendships. Buy some perspective, Kav.

I think most conservative behavior can be blamed on liberals. Modern US conservatives, unlike liberals, moderates, and normal people, lack free will or agency. So we can't hold them responsible for their behavior. It follows that it's inappropriate to put conservatives in decision making positions.

In that respect, not just looks like it is: Notre Dame’s dorms are not co-ed and there are curfews on being in the other genders dorm.

Somebody is having a kegger tonight.

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I cackled

It’s not the dumbest thing in there, but it’s extremely telling that he misspelled Christine Blasey Ford’s name.

You're telling me the guy who worked under Ken Starr to impeach Bill Clinton and for George W. Bush to stop the Florida recount in 2000 only became conservative due to liberal bullying? A perfect encapsulation of the "only Democrats have agency" media framing. Amazing.

And obvious liars

But I bet he still likes beer.

All because of the leftlibs’ purity tests against roofie rapists. Smh, why we so cruel?

So many elite liberals cannot see beyond someone being nice to them

This is a fascinating case study of how it's silly to not consider supreme Court decisions as anything but political. "They were so mean to him he can't rule based on the law anymore" is such a crazy position.

It's amazing that a single hearing can completely alter a wannabe judge's entire philosophy like that. Wow. Dislodged from his core principles by a few pesky questions from his inferiors. Now that's pure strength!

Damn, if only he hadn't raped someone he wouldn't have felt forced out of liberal circles...oh wait no he's still a piece of shit anyways!

He had a totally bonkers video about how Roberts will be remembered for standing up to Trump. Roberts? The one who wrote Trump v. US?

He’s not really a racist, it’s just that the Klan parties are off the hook!

No one wants to play with me, so I have no choice but to support the far right from the country's most important court.

You called me a Nazi and I’m not one, so now I’m forced to become one of them.

The woman who said you didn't need abortion because you can drop the baby off at the fire station.

There are skills at lawyering, but no one will convince you that all lawyers are equally as talented as fast a fedsoc dumbass talking about how a republican justice is the smartest guy/gal ever.

wait. So Brett is Bretting because if he didn’t he wouldn’t have friends?

Also, did he forget to spell-check “Blasey”?

justice kavanaugh is a social person he needs friends. is held up as somehow the same or more important than a credible sexual assault allegation

Wait, Kavanaugh was teaching classes while a Supreme Court justice?

So Kavanaugh had his feelings hurt? Maybe he isn't SCOTUS material and should have stuck with teaching.

What a load of shit

This reads to me as an argument for court expansion. It's absurd that one unelected man's social life should have any impact on policy.

Career arc and personal arc align. The author would be well advised to recall that Mr Associate Justice was credibly accused of sexual assault.

Did we ever figure out which GOP mega donor paid off his significant revolving debt or do we just still have to pretend that it was for baseball tickets www.gq.com/story/scotus...

This is some Harvard-ass shit

'See what you made me do?' part 32,896.

You've gotta be kidding!