Three prominent liberal groups pushing to defeat Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination on Friday urged Democrats to seek a formal perjury investigation of him based on his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.
Demand Justice, MoveOn, and NARAL Pro-Choice America outlined their case in a letter sent as Kavanaugh’s marathon four-day hearing came to a close, with the Republican Senate still expected to confirm him by month’s end.
The trio of advocacy groups claim that five topics Kavanaugh addressed with Judiciary panel senators this week reveal inconsistencies with statements he made during confirmation hearings for his current appellate court position that “appear to rise to the level of perjury,” they wrote.
The five topics are: Kavanaugh’s involvement in the judicial nominations of William Pryor and Charles Pickering during his time in the George W. Bush administration; his involvement in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program; his role in handling Bush-era detainee policy; and his awareness of the use of Democratic documents reportedly
stolen by another GOP aide.
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Liberal groups urge Dems to seek perjury probe of Kavanaugh https://t.co/hI4h4DlDth
— POLITICO (@politico) September 8, 2018
Even if you hate the guy, take a deep breath and consider: Kavanaugh is a very good lawyer. Very good. He was being asked about matters he knew were going to come up. He was being asked about prior testimony that took place more than a decade ago. He had time to prepare.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
There was nothing to prevent him from saying something like, “Senator, I appear to have misspoke in my prior appearance on this point. With the benefit of these documents it looks like I played a more substantial role in the Pickering nomination than I remembered back then.”
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
With the entire Justice Department?
Really?
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
I have known Kavanaugh for a very long time, since the mid/late-1990s. We interacted over a bunch of the issues at issue in these lines of questioning. I wrote a book about Starr, for example, and I covered both post-9/11 antiterrorism issues and judicial confirmations while…
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
There are a lot of good reasons for liberals to oppose Kavanaugh. He’s a genuine conservative who will do a lot of the things liberals are afraid of. One of the reasons to oppose him is not that he’s some kind of terrible person. He’s a thoroughly decent and honorable person.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
I know this isn’t going to make me popular, but WTF, I don’t care. It’s the truth as *I* see it.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 8, 2018
I almost feel bad for how hard they are going to get nuked on this https://t.co/C4kaCkU8Pv
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) September 8, 2018
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