Democratic leaders are panning new demands by the left to oust the Supreme Court justice.
Senior Democrats are moving quickly to snuff out calls to impeach Brett Kavanaugh, arguing those tactics are unrealistic and politically harmful.
Democrats are already wrestling with whether to try to oust President Donald Trump, and leadership sees little room for the party to take on a second divisive impeachment saga barely a year before the presidential election. So the demands by 2020 presidential contenders to remove the Supreme Court justice, on the heels of new reporting about allegations of sexual misconduct, are getting panned.
“Get real,” as Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) put it Monday afternoon.
“We’ve got to get beyond this ‘impeachment is the answer to every problem.’ It’s not realistic,” Durbin said. “If that’s how we are identified in Congress, as the impeachment Congress, we run the risk that people will feel we’re ignoring the issues that mean a lot to them as families.”
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Senior Democrats are moving quickly to snuff out calls to impeach Brett Kavanaugh, arguing those tactics are unrealistic and politically harmful https://t.co/COi2ZPym6Z
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Democrats aren’t really going to let this go. They will wait till they control the senate as well as the house. Then impeachment will be revived.
I’m not particularly a fan of Justice Kavanaugh, but I am a fan of the Constitution and the law. This man is being tried and convicted in the media on charges of sexual misconduct with no evidence, no viable witnesses and, in the latest case, no victim. The whole mess is all because the Justice was nominated by a Republican president and that he *might* rule in favor of repealing Roe v. Wade. Justice Kavanaugh does not deserve this.
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