truthfulness under oath and whether he s misled senators during the confirmation process, those concerns started before sexual assault allegations were ever leveled against judge kavanaugh. but they got much worse after, because of how he handled himself under oath while denying that allegation. and in addition to those questions about his honesty under oath, there is this related problem that he now has, which is starting to look like it may be the single most difficult hurdle for judge kavanaugh if he still sees himself as on the way to the supreme court. to be a good judge and a good umpire, it s important to have the proper demeanor, really important i think, to walk in the other s shoes, whether it be the other litigants, the it will gadg the other judges, to understand them and keep our emotions in check, to be calm in the storm. on the bench, to put it in a very income lanacular
at how judge kavanaugh testified in his initial hearing, and there were so many, in my view, inconsistencies and the pattern of not being supportive of reproductive rights and his very expansive views of executive powers and protections for the president. there were enough concerns there that i was already against judge kavanaugh s nomination before all of these other reports came out. at the same time, i m really glad that you focused on his temperament. the speech that he gave was reprinted as a law review article from which i quoted on a floor speech that i gave on monday on the floor of the senate, because i believe that he did not, of course, it s not even a belief, he did not follow his own advice in his law review article, which is that a judge should not be partisan, and he went on to talk about his demeanor and his temperament. well, clearly, he was so
what do you think is going to happen in terms of the timing of the new fbi report, what sort of work product is going to be handed over to the senate, and whether there will be any public facing part of it. i ve said that i hope we can be as transparent as possible, and that s why we requested that there be a bipartisan agreement as to what parts of the report we can make public. at the same time, we re already hearing from outside sources that the investigation was limited. it was under the control of the white house. the president said that it should be open and they should interview judge kavanaugh as well as dr. ford. but i don t think those things happened, nor were various leads followed up. we know of so many people, which i think you reported yourself, that a lot of people would like to have been interviewed by the fbi but have not been contacted. in terms of how this is all
source reporting, indicates that these people haven t been spoken to by the tib. even when they themselves have proactively contacted the fbi by going into an fbi field office or calling fbi headquarters or hiring lawyers to contact the fbi on their behalf, these folks by and large have not been able to get a call back or find somebody in the fbi to take down their investigation. again, that s based on open source reporting from different sources. among the people who as of this evening haven t spoken to the fbi as part of this background investigation is dr. christine blasey ford. she did testify before the senate last week. her lawyers have repeatedly offered the fbi that she would give testimony by them. she offered supporting documentation for her allegations against kavanaugh. but as of this evening, the fbi has shown no interest in hearing from her at all. even as they supposedly have been assigned to investigate these latest allegations against
vernacular, don t be a joke. to be a good umpire and good judge, don t be a jerk. that was judge kavanaugh speaking in 2015 at the law school of catholic university. a longer transcript of that speech was just published by david corn at mother jones magazine. that speech was already a little famous, because that s the speech where judge kavanaugh veered off script and said, what happens at georgetown prep stays at georgetown prep. that s been a good thing for all of us. that got a flurry of attention last week. in that same speech, kavanaugh goes on and on about how important it is for a judge to keep our emotions in check, to be calm, to have the proper demeanor. all this stuff about how a judge must comport himself or herself if he or she wants to be part of the federal judiciary at every level. let me run through what i think a judge as umpire means. first, and probably most obviously, not being a political