Reagan didnt get him on to the court. And immediately everybody started to try everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the Reagan White House for this political disaster. President reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u. S. Supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, Douglas Ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. It was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. White house officials knew he could never win confirmation. The frontrunner to become the new nominee is considered to be judge Anthony Kennedy of california. With more on the ginsburg withdrawal, white house corresponde correspondent. Reporter it all happened quickly for Douglas Ginsburg, less than 48 hours from the time he first disclosed he had smoked marijua marijuana, he was at the white house calling it quits. I today have asked Ronald Reagan not to forward my nomination to the court. Late this afternoon, attorney
You this woman has no incentive to make it up where the judge has every incentive to deny it. Her story is not a misunderstanding. It is not something thats very gray. Shes talking about a vile ebt assault. Violent assault. Because Brett Kavanaugh is a man, therefore he is guilty. All men are guilty, it is the y chromosome. Is the press treating her fairly since ford told her story to the Washington Post and became the target of online threats and abuse . Are some pundits quick to assume kavanaugh is lying when the judge says no such assault happened 36 years ago . And are the pundits rushing to judgment based on raw partisanship . A stunning New York Times report citing unnamed sources says Deputy Attorney general rosenstein suggested he secretly record President Trump and talked about invoking the 25th amendment. He calls it inaccurate. Some sources say his remarks were sarcastic. How solid is the story . A reporter catches google red handed with executives talking about opposing the
Protect her mom, she couldnt protect her elderly mom and her elderly dad from what happened there in the room. The most difficult part, my parents were in my mother turned 80 on the day of the vote to confirm Clarence Thomas, and i believed the difficult part was to watch my parents who were elderly people, who had lived good lives and raised their children and to be honest and truthful and hardworking and all of the things that we want parents to do for their children. To watch them go through it, the sense that they felt that they couldnt protect me from it, and i think it was really hard on them. It undermined their confidence in whether or not the government truly represented them. And for an africanamerican family, those kinds of questions have existed. And to have it personalized i think was really difficult, but i have to say they were so strong and so wonderful and so supportive, and they never wavered. And so but it was still hard for me to watch them go through that and know
You this woman has no incentive to make it up where the judge has every incentive to deny it. Her story is not a misunderstanding. It is not something thats very gray. Shes talking about a vile ebt assault. Violent assault. Because Brett Kavanaugh is a man, therefore he is guilty. All men are guilty, it is the y chromosome. Is the press treating her fairly since ford told her story to the Washington Post and became the target of online threats and abuse . Are some pundits quick to assume kavanaugh is lying when the judge says no such assault happened 36 years ago . And are the pundits rushing to judgment based on raw partisanship . A stunning New York Times report citing unnamed sources says Deputy Attorney general rosenstein suggested he secretly record President Trump and talked about invoking the 25th amendment. He calls it inaccurate. Some sources say his remarks were sarcastic. How solid is the story . A reporter catches google red handed with executives talking about opposing the
Kavanagh spent the majority of today in White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and others from the counsels office calling key members of congress in a direct effort of damage control. Actually a desperate effort. And heres the breaking news tonight. The Senate Judiciary committee announced it will hold public hearings this coming monday with kavanagh and his accuser christine blosey ford t. Came from all ten democrats on that committee. Chairman Chuck Grassley requested a delay saying there are, quote, serious questions about judge kavanaghs record, truthfulness and character. A growing number of republican senators have also expressed concern over the allegation and said that the senate needs to hear from the accuser. The white house said in a statement tonight judge kavanagh looks forward to a hearing where he can clear his name of this false allegation. Earlier in the day the president reaffirmed his support for his nominee with the reservation that he, the president , wanted members of th