Lyin' Brett Bull-shitting His Way to the Supreme Court

The tiny fraction of records that have been forced into public discussion (thanks to rebellious Democrats on the Judiciary Committee) demonstrates how willing Kavanaugh has been to perjure himself in order to advance his judicial career.

One of the things Kavanaugh did in the Bush White House was facilitate judicial nominations (such as the controversial Charles Pickering), and that's what he lied to the Senate about while under oath at least twice. In 2006, during his his D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmation process, Kavanaugh told the committee that "This was not one of the judicial nominees that I was primarily handling," but the emails proved differently.

Kavanaugh also lied to the Senate, while under oath, in 2004 when he said he hadn't had anything to do with the nomination process for the virulently anti-abortion Judge William Pryor, who famously called Roe v. Wade "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law." Multiple emails showed Kavanaugh working on this nomination, including one in December 2002 in which he wrote "we perhaps should think about recommending Pryor for [the 11th Circuit]." Pryor was nominated for the lifetime appointment in April 2003.

Then there's "memogate," the 2002 scandal involving a Senate Republican aide named Manuel Miranda who stole Democratic memos from a shared server and gave them to Kavanaugh.  In 2004 and 2006, Kavanaugh told the Senate that he had never received any documents that even "appeared to … have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff."   That turned out to be a lie.

Kavanaugh also said, under oath, that he first learned about the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance programs with the rest of the nation, when The New York Times exposed them in 2005. But emails from September 2001 show Kavanaugh participating in the initial discussions about the programs with John Yoo (architect of Bush's torture program).

In his 2006 confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh told Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin that he "was not involved" in legal questions related to the detention of so-called enemy combatants. Durbin, however, has ecords showing that there are at least three recorded examples of Kavanaugh participating in discussions of Bush administration detainee policy, including torture.

It seem obvious that Kavanaugh was nominated to protect Trump. Republicans are trying to rush him onto the court to protect Trump, and they don't care how much he lied to them to get there.