Caricature d'Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
dimanche 30 septembre 2018
Caricature politique américaine: toujours plus bas
Caricature de Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch, OH
samedi 29 septembre 2018
L'Association Américaine du Barreau entretenait déjà des doutes sur Brett Kavanaugh il y a douze ans
" Flash back to the mid-2000s and another fight in the Senate over Kavanaugh’s nomination to a federal court: Democrats for three years had been blocking President George W. Bush’s 2003 nomination of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. They argued he was biased, as shown by his work as a lawyer for Bush’s presidential campaign, for an independent counsel’s investigation into President Bill Clinton and for other conservative causes. Republicans kept pushing to make Kavanaugh a judge on the powerful appeals court, year after year. In his defense, they cited multiple reviews by the ABA’s judicial review committee that found him “well qualified” — the big attorney association’s highest possible endorsement, meaning Kavanaugh had outstanding legal abilities and outstanding judicial temperament.
But in May 2006, as Republicans hoped to finally push Kavanaugh’s nomination across the finish line, the ABA downgraded its endorsement.
The group’s judicial investigator had recently interviewed dozens of lawyers, judges and others who had worked with Kavanaugh, the ABA announced at the time, and some of them raised red flags about “his professional experience and the question of his freedom from bias and open-mindedness.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/american-bar-association-had-kavanaugh-concerns-years-ago-republicans-dismissed-those-too/?utm_term=.72b798f27a50
Le FBI enquêtera sur Brett Kavanaugh: en a-t-on assez d'une semaine?
"Will anyone believe the F.B.I.?
Once again, the F.B.I. has been thrust into a politically fraught moment.
The bureau has been the target of Mr. Trump’s fury since before he became president, claiming without evidence that a cabal of F.B.I. officials was against him. He has called the investigation into whether any of his associates conspired with Russian’s election interference a witch hunt and a hoax, prompting concern among agents that he has damaged the F.B.I.’s credibility.
Now, some Republicans have dismissed the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh as nothing more than a political smear to derail his nomination. And Democrats are demanding a credible investigation before his nomination comes to a vote.
Republicans and Democrats alike are all but certain to seize on the F.B.I.’s findings to bolster their cases, and some current and former agents fear that politics will drown out any truth uncovered by the investigation. Nonetheless, James A. Gagliano, a former agent, said on Twitter, the background check is the “right path forward.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-brett-kavanaugh-backstory-853839
La rébellion de Jeff Flake
"Four senators undecided on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination gathered Thursday night for a quiet chat with earth-shaking consequences. The topic: How to handle sexual assault allegations against the judge without embarrassing their chamber.?? In Susan Collins' third-floor office in the Capitol, she and her Republican colleagues Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joined by Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — agreed they had the power to make or break Kavanaugh. And without settling on precise details, they decided to use their leverage to insist on a process that would allow them to reach a comfort level with Kavanaugh, rather than to kill his Supreme Court nomination outright, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
What resulted on Friday afternoon threw Washington into chaos and guaranteed another week of uncertainty and suspense surrounding Kavanaugh's confirmation. Just hours after Flake endorsed Kavanaugh and seemed to put him on a path to the high court, the Arizonan said he first wanted a week-long FBI investigation into Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that the judge assaulted her. It was a victory for Democrats who'd been demanding such a probe, to no avail, and promises to define the retiring Flake's legacy as someone who refused to let Kavanaugh get a vote while under a cloud of doubt."
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-brett-kavanaugh-backstory-853839
vendredi 28 septembre 2018
Yale dans la tourmente Kavanaugh: le juge y perd des appuis
"The campus outrage hasn’t been limited to students.
Before the second and third allegations against Kavanaugh emerged, 40 percent of the law school faculty, including two former deans, signed an open letter demanding a full investigation into the allegation leveled by Christine Blasey Ford.
“With so much at stake for the Supreme Court and the nation, we are concerned about a rush to judgment that threatens both the integrity of the process and the public’s confidence in the Court,” the letter said. “Some questions are so fundamental to judicial integrity that the Senate cannot rush past them without undermining the public’s confidence in the Court. This is particularly so for an appointment that will yield a deciding vote on women’s rights and myriad other questions of immense consequence in American lives.”
Even professors who initially praised Kavanaugh’s nomination have since backed off. In a Yale Daily News op-ed published Monday titled “Second Thoughts on Kavanaugh,” Amar wrote, “I believe that these accusations deserve the best and most professional investigation possible — even if that means a brief additional delay on the ultimate vote on Judge Kavanaugh, and even if that investigatory delay imperils his confirmation.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/kavanaugh-yale-students-opposition-845392
Caricature nomination de Brett Kavanaugh: combat à finir!
Caricature de Tom Janssen, The Netherlands
Nomination de Brett Kavanaugh: on parle déjà de le destituer
"Be smart: If Kavanaugh is confirmed, Democrats could be expected to question the legitimacy of his swing Supreme Court vote. Congress degraded itself yesterday. And the Trump White House of course has serious credibility issues.
So the United States of America will be three-for-three in diminished trust in its branches of government."
https://www.axios.com/kavanaugh-vote-impeachment-democrats-ford-d6ba557f-e6dc-4dc7-b560-e7536bd58129.html
Le système américain touche le fond
"The result was affirmation that Washington is as broken as it has ever been. Based on what the senators in the room said, the result was, once again, people hearing mostly what they were inclined to believe. The result, far from clarity, was a complex rush of emotions adding up to two families left in wreckage and a political system without even a pathway to cooperation.
The day ended with discord bordering on dark visions of a hopeless future. Graham heatedly declared that “this is not a job interview. This is hell. . . . To my Republican colleagues, if you vote ‘no,’ you’re legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-kavanaugh-fight-a-national-struggle-over-trust-identity-and-sex-roles/2018/09/27/8dbeb4d8-c25b-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.29e28419ffe1
jeudi 27 septembre 2018
Caricature les Républicains du sénat et les femmes
Caricature de Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT
Caricature Donald Trump présente un bilan supérieur à celui des autres présidents!
Caricature de Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAE
Témoignage de Christine Blasey Ford: le FBI doit maintenant intervenir (Megan McArdle, Washington Post)
"But by the same token, Democrats should stop calling for Kavanaugh’s nomination to be withdrawn, as if that could possibly put this scandal to rest. Two days ago, yes, but now the nation cannot afford to punt. Regardless of what it might do to Republican chances of putting a conservative in the seat, or to Democratic chances of retaking the Senate, once Thursday’s hearing concludes, the president must reopen the FBI background checks to try to establish the truth of the allegations, from Swetnick and Ford and Ramirez. If the FBI substantiates them, any criminality should be referred to local prosecutors for possible prosecution. If the FBI is unable to substantiate any of them, then despite the lingering questions, Democrats should join Republicans and unanimously confirming Kavanaugh, to signal that some things — both #MeToo and the integrity of the nomination process — are above politics.
Either grave crimes have passed undetected for decades and we must now do our utmost to see them punished, or a new crime is unfolding before our eyes: an attempt to manipulate the composition of the highest court of the land through the strategically timed release of unfalsifiable accusations of sexual assault. Either way, it’s too late for a political solution. This is now about preserving the integrity of the American justice system; it can’t be brushed away with “politics ain’t beanbag.” At this point, it’s more like Fiat justitia ruat cælum: Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/09/27/now-a-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-is-obligatory/?utm_term=.535471655971
Julian Assange plus isolé que jamais?
"Assange behaved as an instrument of the Kremlin operation which, in an excruciatingly close election, may have made just enough of a difference to secure Trump’s victory.
Once, Assange was celebrated as the apostle of openness. But now, it seems, history will more likely remember him as an accessory to one of the world’s most secretive and cynical autocracies.
Mueller’s investigators have recently questioned at least five witnesses about Assange’s role in the 2016 campaign. The WikiLeaks founder’s ties to Trump confidant Roger Stone appear to be a focus of that line of inquiry, as ABC News reported last week.
More revelations are likely to come. But we already know Assange looks less like a crusader of the online counterculture than the power-mad intriguer who once referred to Hillary Clinton as a “sadistic sociopath” and who was happy to openly accept Russian support. (The Kremlin’s RT propaganda network gave a show to Assange for a time, and the Guardian newspaper recently reported on an apparent Russian plan to help Assange escape Britain, though it was ultimately scrapped.) In July, the Mueller investigation indicted a dozen Russian military-intelligence operatives for stealing information from Democratic Party computers — information, the indictment said, that was then passed on to WikiLeaks."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/27/the-image-of-julian-assange-grows-darker-by-the-day/?utm_term=.30639dc83d1e
Chronique dans "Nathalie le midi" sur les ondes de BLVD 102,1: témoignage de Christine Blasey Ford au sénat
mercredi 26 septembre 2018
Bill Cosby prisonnier politique? Un martyr de la cause des Noirs américains?
"To suggest that Cosby’s conviction and sentencing are invalid not because he didn’t commit a crime, but because other (white) rapists have gotten away with their crimes, is a peculiar logic. It reveals a disturbing impulse: the desire to weigh black men’s social standing against white men’s, even to the detriment of all women. If Cosby were to (further) evade punishment for his crimes, would that be a mark of racial progress? It’s an uncomfortable thought, a callous calculus that loses sight of the humanity at the heart of any pursuit of justice. Demanding accountability of black abusers is not an inherently anti-black proposition."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/bill-cosby-not-anti-racist-martyr/571348/
Caricature Theresa May: son entente ou pas d'entente du tout?
Caricature de Stephane Peray, Thailand
Donald Trump pense vaincre la Chine. Vraiment?
"What does such a test of wills sound like? It sounds like a senior Chinese official telling me at a seminar at Tsinghua University in April that it’s just “too late” for America to tell China what to do anymore on issues like trade, because China is now too big and powerful. And it sounds like President Trump, in effect, telling China: “Says who? Show me what you got, baby!” Or as Trump actually tweeted last week: “We are under no pressure to make a deal with China, they are under pressure to make a deal with us. … If we meet, we meet.”
I guess we should be grateful that this confrontation has been confined to trade, but, as I said, it was inevitable. Because, as one top tech executive pointed out to me: “China is not a ‘near peer’ anymore. It is a peer.”
As Mary Meeker’s latest internet trends study noted, five years ago China had only two of the world’s largest publicly traded tech companies, while the U.S. had nine. Today, China has nine of the top 20 — Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Financial, Baidu, Xiaomi, Didi, JD.com, Meituan and Toutiao — and the U.S. has 11. Twenty years ago, China had none."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/opinion/trump-china-trade-economy-tech.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Julie Swetnick: une troisième femme sort de l'ombre pour accuser Brett Kavanaugh
"A third woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying he was physically abusive toward girls in high school and present at a house party in 1982 where she says she was the victim of a “gang” rape."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-nomination-trump-calls-nominee-an-absolute-gem-as-tensions-swirl-over-planned-hearing/2018/09/26/df224aea-c190-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html?utm_term=.00651ea07996
Caricature témoignage de Christine Blasey Ford: les Républicains sont "prêts"
Caricature de Christine Blasey Ford
mardi 25 septembre 2018
Le monde se moque de Donald Trump
"Dozens of times since 2011, Trump has tweeted the word laughing, and even though that’s a fairly common word, the vast majority of the uses involve foreign countries (or groups like isis) laughing at the United States.
More recently, however, Trump has argued that the snickering is over.
“The world respects our country now,” he told a reporter earlier this month, after former President Barack Obama criticized him in a speech. “They didn’t respect our country when he was running it. They were laughing at our country. We’re making great trade deals now and we’re making fair trade deals, but we’re making them good for us. And we didn’t have that.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/trump-unga-laughter/571267/
Le sénat planifie un vote sur la nomination de Brett Kavanaugh vendredi
“For Republicans to schedule a Friday vote on Brett Kavanaugh today, two days before Dr. Blasey Ford has had a chance to tell her story, is outrageous," said Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee's ranking member. “First Republicans demanded Dr. Blasey Ford testify immediately. Now Republicans don’t even need to hear her before they move ahead with a vote."
Senate Republicans hired a female attorney to use as a questioner of Ford at Thursday's high-stakes hearing on a sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh but are declining to release her name. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told POLITICO on Tuesday that "we aren't announcing the name for her safety."
Asked if Republicans have received any indication of threats to the attorney they're preparing to use, Grassley said: "I don’t know, but I guess we’re just being cautious."
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/white-house-lashes-out-feinstein-838942
lundi 24 septembre 2018
Caricature cour suprême et audiences de Brett Kavanaugh
Caricature de Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
Une troisième femme contre Brett Kavanaugh? Micahel Avenatti avance que oui
"Avenatti also claimed he had “significant evidence” to prove that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge — the classmate named by Christine Blasey Ford as being in the room when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her — “would participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs.”
In a follow up interview with Politico on Sunday, Avenatti said he is currently representing a group of people who can corroborate the allegations made against Kavanaugh. One member of the group is a victim, he said.
“She will testify, but before she does, she will likely appear on camera for an interview,” he told Politico, adding that the allegations are “not out of character from what Dr. Ford said.” He also shared an email he had sent to Chief Counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee Mike Davis and suggested in the contents of the email that the “targeting of women with alcohol/drugs” could allude to taking turns having sex with women when they were intoxicated, as Judge’s ex-wife outlined to the New Yorker."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/avenatti-claims-represent-third-woman-allegations
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