{"id":178645,"date":"2018-10-04T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/yeah-the-fix-is-in-on-kavanaugh\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:54:00","slug":"yeah-the-fix-is-in-on-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/yeah-the-fix-is-in-on-kavanaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, the Fix is In on Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No questions to Kavanaugh or Ford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/will-the-fbi-ignore-testimonies-from-kavanaughs-former-classmates\">Ramirez was barely intervieded and and corroborating witnesses were given the brush off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The money quote here is, &#8220;No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI What a charade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WaPo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2018\/10\/04\/heres-a-list-of-people-the-fbi-did-not-interview-okay-with-this-flake-and-collins\/\">has a list of people that he FBI refused to interview despite their claims that Kavanaugh is a liar<\/a>, which is a critical part of a background check, and another story from them about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/as-fbi-background-check-of-kavanaugh-nears-its-end-probe-appears-to-have-been-highly-curtailed\/2018\/10\/03\/2fa4e93e-c72f-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.d9fdc5a73cce\">the FBI refused to interview someone who had text messages showing that Kavanaugh was doing damage control on Ramirez before he told the Judiciary Committee he knew about the allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/04\/politics\/susan-collins-jeff-flake-kavanaugh-fbi-report\/index.html\">Susan Collins has signed off on the sham<\/a>, because her moderation only really applies when her vote does not count.<\/p>\n<p>So, it looks like we are going to get a liar, gambling addict, alcoholic, rapist on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>He has a pretty good shot at being a worse justice than Roger B. Taney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No questions to Kavanaugh or Ford, Ramirez was barely intervieded and and corroborating witnesses were given the brush off. The money quote here is, &#8220;No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI What a charade.&#8221; The WaPo has a list of people that he FBI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,387,407,374],"class_list":["post-178645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}