Judiciary approves Kavanaugh, sending nomination to full Senate after Flake request
Excerpt: EXCERPT: Flake earlier had announced his support for Kavanaugh, but then disappeared from the committee room as lawmakers offered hours of statements on the proceeding. When he returned to speak, he said he would vote to advance Kavanaugh in exchange for a one-week delay in a Senate floor vote on his nomination. “I think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the FBI to do an investigation limited in time and scope,” he said. Flake was reportedly in discussions with Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and other members of the panel. (My theory: Flake, Collins, and Murkowski don't want to vote for Kavanaugh but lack a legitimate reason not to. I think they want to extend the process in the hope they'll find something to justify a "no" vote without looking like the backstabbers and traitors they'll be if they do that. Let's take the vote Tuesday and if the nomination goes down, so be it. Kavanaugh says he'll go with the committee. Then we'll know we'll have some Republicans in the Senate who liked Kennedy as a swing vote just fine and the conservative hopes (decades old) of a conservative court will probably be sacrifice to moderate Republicans. But oh, oh, oh, they are so conscientious, so want to do "the right thing." Bull! --WT)
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