Posted on 09/20/2018 10:51:53 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Citing “sources,” Fox News’ Shannon Bream reports on the demands Christine Blasey Ford and her legal team are making as a condition for her testifying about her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh:
Ford team wants NO questions from lawyers, only Qs from Committee members, #Kavanaugh cannot be in the room, Kavanaugh must testify FIRST – more to come …
These demands are absurd. No questions from lawyers? I guess Ford wants to be able to claim she’s being persecuted by an all-white-male panel. She doesn’t want a woman to examine her, which I imagine is what the Republicans have in mind.
But effective cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. And in-practice lawyers, not politicians who once may have practiced law, generally make the best cross-examiners.
If Ford is telling the truth she shouldn’t be afraid of lawyers. The Committee should reject this demand.
Kavanaugh can’t be in the room? Say what? Ford is accusing Kavanaugh of a crime. Criminal defendants aren’t booted out of the courtroom when their accusers testify. As the accused, albeit not in a criminal proceeding, the interests of justice demand that Kavanaugh be confronted with the witness against him.
Kavanaugh must testify first? Give me a break. The accuser always goes first, whether in a criminal or a civil proceeding. How else can the accused defend himself against what’s actually being alleged?
I hope that the swing GOP Senators — e.g. Flake and Collins — will see the absurdity of Ford’s demands, so that Chairman Grassley confidently can reject them outright. If he does, there’s a good chance Ford will back down. If she doesn’t, the Committee can vote immediately.
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Please tell Ford’s lawyer I will have sex with her if Ford goes away ...just let me quickly see what the lawyer looks like ...AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!...sorry I rescind the offer!!! /S
You are correct on the five questions...which she will probably decline to answer.
I think the committee will convene at 9:30 AM on Monday, and if she’s not in the room....they will move to adjourn within two minutes after a roll-call is wrapped up. The Democrats will demand more time...the adjournment will occur in lightning speed, and the Senate will be handed the item to vote upon by Tuesday morning. Some delays might occur, but I think by Thursday of next week....the vote will wrap up and it’s done.
The chief problem I see....based on various accounts of her level of alcohol consumption over several years of this period, you can’t rely upon her memory in any fashion. It’s possible that she’s blacked-out several times and this lapse of memory is totally screwed up.
The other factor playing out....for November elections, do you as a voter really want some drunken slut-tramp factor that occurred 35 years ago to influence your vote? I can’t see anyone changing their vote over this.
[Chuck Grassley needs to stop being a pu**y]
No questions from lawyers?
Aren’t all the members of the Judiciary Committee lawyers?
WHY ARE THEY EVEN PAYING ATTENTION TO HER???? Was there a police report of this attack? Witnesses? Evidence? NO NO NO! So who the F cares WHAT she says? The burden of proof is on HER and until she gets it IGNORE HER otherwise anybody can make up ANYTHING about ANYBODY
What a first class entitled bitch...
They want to optics of the men on the committee tramatizing her by asking questions like what happened, where did it happen and when did it happen.
Gamesmanship
POUND SAND, you CRAZY LIAR!
WTF?? Grassley better NOT CAVE!
At this point, I know the US is definitely perishing from within. When an obscure, unknown woman can make charges against anyone and paralyze the legal functioning of our government, without showing her face and coming forward so that everyone can hear what she has to say, she has been able to weaponized herself and put every single man, woman and child in jeopardy of injustice in ways we have never known here. This is different than the Clarence Thomas case in many respects. Will the old White men on that committee allow this to go on for the sake of the next election? God help us, for we are deep into the swamp here.
Just testing Grassley to see if he’ll blink.
Ford is accusing Kavanaugh of rape and attempted murder, but the events she describes sound more like an awkward attempt at seduction while she was too drunk to know where she was or who she was with. This is so obviously fake, that I'm surprised even the left would stoop this low. I keep assuming that even democrats have to have some decency, and I keep being proven wrong.
Eyewitness testimony is extremely unreliable, because memory is very easy to influence. Studies have shown that people can remember things that never happened, given the right suggestions.
In this case, maybe something happened, maybe not. What she described sounds like a clumsy seduction attempt, much like those that billions of women experience at least once while young. If true, I seriously doubt that she even knew the guy’s name (given that she apparently did not know the name of anyone at the party other than Kavanaugh and his friend). Last, even if it was Kavanaugh, so what? Are we now going to start imprisoning men or otherwise destroy them for committing clumsy acts of seduction as teens?
“This is so obviously fake, that I’m surprised even the left would stoop this low.“
I’m not. And they’ll get worse after November. If Ginsburg leaves the Court for some reason they’ll go completely mad.
Get ready for it.
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Her demands are extortion.
I hope there is a defamation and fraud suit against this woman.
If you get a traffic ticket and the state schedules a court appearance, do you think you have any authority to tell the court when you choose to appear? I think not. Now ramp that up to the entire federal government and holding up the business of the country. Just who do you think you are?
Good point.
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