The Democrats’ Political Theater

A Look Back at Democrats’ Conduct During Judge Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings
“[F]rom liberal protesters caterwauling to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) urging Kavanaugh to suspend his ain hearing … i has to wonder: Was the chaos precisely political theater? There’s enough of testify that it was, starting amongst a telephone telephone that Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, allegedly placed to Democratic members of the commission over the weekend, encouraging them to bring together together inwards a usual (but around probable futile) elbow grease at obstruction.” (Damon Linker, “The Grandstanding Theatricality Of The Kavanaugh Hearings,” The Week, 7/05/2018)

Senate Democrats Cheered On The Protests And Disruptions…
SEN. DICK DURBIN (D-IL): “What we’ve heard is the dissonance of democracy.” (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, 9/04/2018)

“@SenWarren stopping past times Hart atrium to give thanks protesters” (Demand Justice’s Diana Bowen, @DianaBowen, Twitter, 9/04/2018)

Sen. Gillibrand likewise met amongst protesters to give thanks them: SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-NY): “And I appreciate the fact that yous are wearing those t-shirts that say ‘I am what is at stake’ …” (Sen. Gillibrand, @gillibrandny, Twitter, 9/04/2018)

SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D-CT): “I desire to give thanks the many, many Americans who are paying attending to this hearing, non alone inwards this room but likewise across the country. I desire to give thanks them for their involvement together with indeed their passion. That is what sustains republic … There is a t-shirt worn past times a number of folks walking around this building. It says, ‘I am what’s at stake.’” (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, 9/04/2018)

“[Winnie] Wong [senior adviser to the Women’s March] said that she felt similar her grouping had advocates inwards the hearing room on the dais, mentioning specifically Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California together with Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.” (“Meet The Protesters Interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing,” CNN, 9/05/2018)

…And Did Some Of Their Own Protesting And Disrupting
“Spoiling for a fight, precisely about Democratic senators weighing 2020 presidential campaigns seized upon the opening moments of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday … One past times one, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Kamala Harris of California, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota together with Cory Booker of New Jersey, demanded that Republicans delay Kavanaugh’s hearing …” (“Potential 2020 Democrats Seize On Kavanaugh Senate Hearings,” The Associated Press, 9/04/2018)

• “[T]here is no fourth dimension similar a stately, nationally televised Supreme Court nomination hearing to view the attending of the tidings media together with amass valuable footage for futurity elbow grease commercials.” (“Democrats Grilling Kavanaugh Have Their Eyes on 2020,” The New York Times, 9/06/2018)

NBC’S KASIE HUNT: “Democrats plotted coordinated protestation strategy over the vacation weekend together with all agreed to disrupt together with protestation the hearing, sources tell me…. Dem leader @chuckschumer led a telephone telephone telephone together with commission members are executing now” (NBC’s Kasie Hunt, @kasie, Twitter, 9/04/2018)

• “[Sen. Chuck] Schumer [D-NY] objected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) asking that the Judiciary Committee locomote allowed to overstep away along its confirmation hearing … Such requests are commonly granted routinely, but Schumer balked … McConnell decided to adjourn the Senate for the hateful solar daytime to larn around Schumer’s objection.” (“Democrats Force Senate To Adjourn To Protest Kavanaugh,” The Hill, 9/05/2018)

“Democratic senators opened Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing amongst an aggressive approach Tuesday, pushing to postpone the hearing together with repeatedly interrupting the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman …” (“How Democrats Coordinated H5N1 Tense Start To Kavanaugh Hearing,” CNN, 9/04/2018)

• “Democrats continued to insist on a vote on their motions equally the hearing veered seriously off rails for to a greater extent than than an hr …” (The Washington Post, 9/04/2018)
• “[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck] Grassley hadn’t fifty-fifty introduced Kavanaugh past times yell when [Sen. Kamala] Harris [D-CA] interjected … As Grassley tried to innovate Kavanaugh, [Sen. Amy] Klobuchar [D-MN] called for the hearing to locomote postponed equally the ii senators attempted to hash out each other. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., jumped in, asking that the hearing locomote adjourned, prompting loud thank yous together with applause inwards the room….” (“Potential 2020 Democrats Seize On Kavanaugh Senate Hearings,” The Associated Press, 9/04/2018)

‘A Nationwide Campaign To Disrupt The Confirmation Process’
Around lxx people were arrested ‘for outbursts together with disruptions’ during each of the offset three days of the Judiciary Committee hearing on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. (“Meet The Protesters Interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing,” CNN, 9/05/2018)

“‘This is well-organized together with scripted. This isn’t chaos,’ Wong said exterior the hearing rooms.” (“Meet The Protesters Interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing,” CNN, 9/05/2018)

“Carla from Silver Spring, Maryland, who did non portion her concluding name, donned her blood-red cape together with white bonnet on Tuesday together with Midweek to protestation Kavanaugh’s nomination. She told CNN that their grouping was organized past times Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group…. She indicated that afterwards inwards the hateful solar daytime she planned to get got off her outfit to become within the hearing room to protest. ‘I’m hoping I larn arrested,’ she said.” (“Meet The Protesters Interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing,” CNN, 9/05/2018)

“For her part, Wong was arrested Mon along amongst Women’s March co-founders Linda Sarsour together with Bob Bland. She recounted what she yelled from the dorsum of the room …” (“Meet The Protesters Interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing,” CNN, 9/05/2018)

DEMAND JUSTICE’S BRIAN FALLON: “The protesters are all heroes.” (Brian Fallon, @brianefallon, Twitter, 9/04/2018)

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