Is Brett Burnt Toast Due To Him Making His FOX Interview The Equivalent Of Sworn Testimony?

Unless Flake and Collins and Murkowski go back on everything they said about what it would take to get them to vote "no" on Kavanaugh, I think he'll probably be withdrawn as a nominee.   If the text messages that show he was witness tampering among his buddies to try to get them to back him up over his assault of Deborah Ramirez BEFORE THE NEW YORKER ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED hold up, he'll probably withdraw himself.  He claimed, under oath, that he didn't even know about her accusation before Ronan Farrow's article came out.

In the tumultuous news of yesterday, I hadn't seen the piece in Rolling Stone that points out that Kavanaugh, in his non-public testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee retrospectively entered his FOX interview of last week as evidence in the record, in effect putting his questioning by Martha MacCallum under oath and the lies he told during making him guilty of perjury.  I think we can see one thing from that, no Supreme Court nominee of the future will be so reckless and irresponsible as to give a FOX interview while they are up for nomination but I doubt any will be as in need of the methods of vulgar PR as Kavanaugh has been.  He was a thoroughly wrong person to have ever been appointed as a judge and he's among the most obviously unqualified person to sit on the Supreme Court, though several of those sitting there now show that, in itself, hasn't been a bar to their appointment.

Brett Kavanaugh's record in public life has been as a partisan Republican hack with Yale Law School credentials.  There are many who you could say that about. He has been a devoted servant of the privileged class he came from and which answers only to the even more privileged on whose behalf they work and from whom their rewards come.  That is one of the most serious defects in our politics and our political system, that it doesn't only not discourage that, it has clearly encouraged it, especially in the judiciary and legal branch of the government.

I am not predicting that they won't put him on the court, anyway, though I would expect if he goes on it, the Court will become as corrupt as it was at any period in its long and largely unreported history of corruption.  That goes back to the beginning when slave-owning Supreme Court Justices ruled to enhance their own morally depraved form of wealth.   It continued as the Supreme Court was the primary enabler of the continuation of a merely modified de facto slave system in the Gilded Age Plessy v. Ferguson - lynch-law period.  Now after the brief interruption of that which can be thought of as the Brown v. Board of Education era, the Rehnquist-Roberts Courts are tearing down the hard won corrections of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and other laws and rulings from the 1950s and 60s.   Some of those whose job it is to piously talk in the media about the Supreme Court as if it were a principled and moral priesthood have, hedging their bets, said that Kavanaugh is out of the mainstream of the Court.  Well, that's objectively not true, he would fit in with probably the majority of the members of the court since its beginning, even many of those considered among its greatest members, it's just that he got caught and was stupid enough to rely on the style of privilege he's enjoyed his entire life to see him through.