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        It’s Time To End Judicial Hearings. They’re A Stupid Waste Of T
       ime. 
       By: BJ Date: September 9, 2018, 2:07 pm
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       ByBEN SHAPIRO
       September 6, 2018
       So, we’re now into the third day of the Senate Judiciary
       Committee confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh,
       President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the
       Supreme Court.
       The hearings have been disrupted scores of times by disgruntled
       Leftists, marred by idiotic rumors regarding supposed white
       supremacist hand signals and refused handshakes, and finally run
       into the ground by Democrats intent on launching 2020
       presidential campaigns on the back of ridiculous grandstanding.
       On Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) grilled Kavanaugh on
       whether he had ever had discussions with lawyers from the law
       firm Kasowitz Benson Torres — a law firm that works with
       President Trump — regarding the Mueller investigation.
       The law firm has nearly 300 lawyers. Kavanaugh asked for
       clarification on a specific lawyer she thinks he talked to; he
       said, “I’m not sure I know everyone who works at that law firm.”
       This is, to be a sure, a reasonable answer. But no one cares
       about reasonable — Harris instead decided to suggest repeatedly
       that Kavanaugh had covert discussions with Trump agents at
       Kasowitz.
       With no evidence. Even Michael Avenatti, who desperately wants
       to run for the 2020 Democratic nomination himself, was appalled:
       Michael Avenatti
       ✔
       @MichaelAvenatti
       They must have hard evidence of this supposed communication by
       Kavanaugh. I’m sure they do bc otherwise Harris would not have
       done what she did in light of the cardinal rule: Don’t over
       promise to the jury and then not deliver bc you will lose all
       credibility and be crucified.
       Molly Jong-Fast
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       @MollyJongFast
       What does Kamala know and when did she know it and when will she
       tell us?
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       9:05 AM - Sep 6, 2018
       Then it got worse: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) took over the
       stage.
       On Thursday, Booker supposedly released classified documents
       regarding Kavanaugh’s nomination — except that, as it turns out,
       those documents had already been cleared for release.
       Booker described the documents as deeply important.
       They weren’t. He described himself as Spartacus.
       He isn’t.
       He said he could be expelled from the Senate for his act of
       bravery.
       He couldn’t be.
       And it turns out that the documents showed Kavanaugh
       understands how precedent works and opposed racial profiling in
       airport security.
       Oops.
       All of this is a clown show.
       We know it; the senators know it; the judicial nominees know it.
       All relevant questions could be asked and answered in writing.
       These are merely hearings done for spectacle, designed to
       degrade the judicial process and elevate senators with
       presidential aspirations.
       It’s time for them to come to an end.
       They’ve been in hospice care ever since the nomination of Judge
       Robert Bork in 1987; we’ve learned nothing of use in three
       decades of such hearings.
       Time, then, for them to die.
       At least then we won’t have to watch Cory Booker re-enact
       imaginary scenes from Spartacus.
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