Let the circus begin

Tomorrow is opening day on Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. The first day is entirely devoted to various senators speechifying. with no questions directed to or answered by the judge, so it will be entirely worthless, but from Wednesday on, the hearings may provide some rich entertainment.

Minnesota's junior senator, Amy Klobuchar claims to have read 156,000 document relating to or written by Kavanagugh, and they prove that he is a sexist, racist person entirely unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Powerline's Scott Johnson points out that, even if the senator had spent just 2 minutes reviewing each document, she'd have had to spend 24-hours a day for 205 days to get through them: Kavanaugh was nominated 55 days ago. Klobuchae also  claims that she can't reveal single document to back up her claim because they're all "secret": they aren't.

So Klobuchar is (once again) proved a liar. That certainly won't stop her from repeating her lies during her speech tomorrow, but she'll have to be specific if she dares to question Kavanaugh directly during the following days. I'm betting she won't.

Another Senate clown, Hawaii's Mazie Hirano, does intend to question Kavanaugh, on the issue of Judge Alex Kozinski's alleged sexual harassment of women. Kavanaugh clerked for Kozinski twenty-five years, ago, for one year, and none of the claims against Kozinski involve incidents occurring a quarter-century ago; Hirano served on the Senate Judiciary Committee for four years with her colleague, Al Frankin during his sexual predation period and said nothing 

Hirano will have another problem with this line of questioning: the testimony of Kavanaugh's female clerks — all of them.  Paul Mirengoff reports:

“Kavanaugh is poised to win big on the issue of how he treats female law clerks. Severino reminds us that a majority (25 of 48) of Judge Kavanaugh’s law clerks have been women, and every one of them not precluded from doing so by her current employer has endorsed Kavanaugh. The female former clerks cite the mentoring and support he provides not just during the clerkship, but as they advance in the legal profession. Indeed, according to Severino, 20 of Kavanaugh’s female law clerks have gone on to clerk at the Supreme Court.

No wonder all of his former female clerks (again, excluding the ones who can’t because of their employment status) signed a letter to Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein describing Kavanaugh as “one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers.””