The schedule is set and the time frame will be very tight. Tuesday, September 4 is the day after Labor day. Grassley expects the hearings to last three or four days, with a Judiciary Committee vote likely occurring the week of September 17. Once on the floor, Republicans will be up against a hard deadline. The Long Conference is scheduled for Monday, September 24. Republicans will have to confirm Kavanaugh by Sunday, September 23, in order for him to be able to sit with the Supreme Court at the long conference.
If they miss that, they must confirm him by Sunday, September 30, in order for him to sit with the Supreme Court on Monday, October 1 for the first oral arguments of the term.
Whether they âshouldâ or not, obviously they wonât. Even if they did, if Democrats took the Senate in the elections, they would ram him through during the lame duck. So it really doesnât make a hells worth of difference.
And partisans are no more upset at his actions than you would have been had a Democratic Congress blocked the SCOTUS appointment of an outgoing Republican president.
But hey - enjoy your peas and pray they donât take over the government again, because theyâll come after you. Or whatever.