Republicans are going to press forward and confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by early next week. For all the talk about whether Republicans could confirm Kavanaugh or even what effect his confirmation might have on the midterm elections, neither discussion addresses a nightmare scenario even farther down the road. And that nightmare scenario is this: That more evidence emerges against someone who will then be called Justice Kavanaugh. It may cost them a seat on the Supreme Court or at least entail a hugely damaging narrative that they bungled Kavanaugh’s confirmation. In the 1991 case Mireles v. Waco, the Supreme Court appended a footnote to the ruling that said, “The Court .

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2018 15:54 UTC