Cory Booker Posturing Exposed as Fake

Clownish Cory Booker managed to make headlines by claiming to flout Senate rules in an attempt to stall Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation:

Booker … released emails — which had been designated as “committee confidential” — that reference Kavanaugh’s position on racial profiling and thoughts on Roe v. Wade dating from his time as a White House official under Bush.

Booker, who as a potential 2020 presidential candidate had an incentive to make a splash in the hearing, said he took the action as an act of “civil disobedience.”

“I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate. … I openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now,” Booker said.

The absurdly self-glorifying Booker proclaimed that this was an “I am Spartacus” moment. But then,

Bill Burck, a lawyer who oversaw the process of providing Bush administration documents, undercut Booker’s grand gesture, saying that the material in question had been cleared on Wednesday night at the request of the senator’s staff.

“We were surprised to learn about Senator Booker’s histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public,” Burck said in a statement.

Have the ensuing cascades of laughter chastised Booker into behaving at least as maturely as a member of junior high student council? Not likely:

Fresh off this embarrassment on Thursday afternoon Senator Booker tweeted out more confidential documents, ostensibly to show his commitment to rule breaking.

As for the bombshell information included in these documents, we learn that Kavanaugh generally favors “effective security measures that are race-neutral.”

Also, there is an email in which he correctly stated that not all legal scholars characterize Roe v. Wade as settled law and that the Supreme Court can overrule precedent. He has also made clear that he respects precedent and regards Roe v. Wade as having been reaffirmed repeatedly. Democrat hysteria notwithstanding, overturning this constitutionally defective ruling would not make abortion illegal anyway; it would merely return the issue to the states, where it belongs.

The hearings have demonstrated that Democrats have nothing on Kavanaugh — and also that, to judge by Booker’s antics, they don’t have much in the way of presidential candidates.

On tips from Chuck A and Varla.

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