This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, October 25, 2018. I'm Kila Brown.

There is a move of foot to impeach the latest addition to the US Supreme Court over claims of perjury.

Cato's Jean Healy argues that the idea probably won't go anywhere, but that's not to say Brett Kavanaugh was totally truthful during his confirmation hearings.

We spoke this week.

I have to admit that when you mentioned this idea to me that there is a push to impeach Justice Kavanaugh, you know, just weeks after he was

confirmed to the US Supreme Court. I actually haven't heard of this. So why is this something that is occurring and why do people

believe that there's some shot at achieving this? Well they know it's not

clear how likely it is people are talking it. As happens in a lot of these cases,

Republicans are talking more about it than Democrats. President Trump's been warning about it in rally speeches and the GOP is running

radio ads on it in House races vote to defeat the liberal mob before they impeach Justice Kavanaugh.

But there are plenty of Democrats who are making noise about it.

Senator Corey Booker said he was open to the idea and there are multiple members,

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee who are who have made pretty

serious calls for reopening an investigation if they take the house in November.

So why? What are the specific allegations that they're making?

Perjury, mainly about the most serious charge against Justice Kavanaugh, the alleged assault on Christine Blasey Ford in the early 80s, but also about

collateral matters, his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and whether he lied in certain aspects of that.

And you know one thing you can say, I don't think the case is very strong but that's not because perjury isn't an

impeachable offense it has been an impeachable offense particularly for

federal judges.

We've had five judicial impeachments in the last three decades,

and every single one of them has involved false testimony

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