Posted on 09/25/2018 11:47:12 AM PDT by sickoflibs
Anyone with an IQ above the low double digits knows very well that Senate Democrats are coordinating closely with Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers. For example, Bromwich’s bizaare insistence that it would be unfair for Ford to be questioned by anyone other than a Senator is clearly a product of Chuck Schumer’s office.
Hopefully, Chuck Grassley is remaining firm on that.
However, we should not forget the even more bizaare demand by Debra Katz that Kavanaugh testify first – essentially defending himself under oath against allegations that haven’t yet been entered into the record.
As we have discovered, the Left – meaning the Democrats and their partners in the media – have no use for due process or the presumption of innocence. This isn’t just when it comes to gender issues or outside the courtroom. Anyone who believes that the Democrats are not itching to introduce the campus kangaroo court practices and procedures created by the Obama Administration into the actual criminal court system is being willfully blind.
Which is why there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Democrats are going to try and pull one more dirty trick on Thursday.
As RedState Head Honcho Emeritus put it;
This whole thing really is predictable
If I had to guess, here’s what I think will happen on Thursday.
Kavanaugh will show up and Ford won’t. The Democrats, feeling charitable, will offer to let Kavanaugh testify and get his side of the story told so he can clear his name.
Both sides will grill him and the Democrats will ask him a series of weirdly specific questions.
Once he is done, Christine Blasey Ford, her lawyers, and a bunch of progressive activists will storm the room and demand that Ford now be heard. Democrats will demand she be heard. The Republicans will cave.
She’ll then give testimony designed to cast doubt on Kavanaugh based on the weirdly specific questions the Democrats asked.
Erick is right. It is entirely predictable that the Democrats will do exactly this and adamantly refuse to allow Christine Ford to be questioned by counsel after her “testimony.”
The problem is that the GOP is known as the “Stupid Party” for very good reason. The very fact that it is so predictable and that this tactic can be seen from miles away – especially after Dianne Feinstein’s last minute dirty trick is exactly the reason why every single one of the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will likely be caught completely by surprise.
Grassley needs to be made to understand that if Christine Blasey Ford does not show up at the appointed time, he should immediately submit the text of Kavanaugh’s opening statement into the record and call for a vote to forward the nomination to the Senate floor.
Under no circumstances is Grassley to allow Kavanaugh to provide any testimony answering to allegations that have not been made under oath by his accuser. Ideally, Grassley should have the cojones to open the session – if Christine Ford is not seated at 10:00AM – with a stern warning to his Democrat colleagues, directly asking if they’re planning to spring Ford out after Kavanaugh, they’re sadly mistaken.
If Grassley proceeds to call for a vote, the Democrats will produce Blasey Ford for one last Hail Mary attempt and scream, shout, rant and rave. Blasey Ford is almost certain to burst into tears and the media will saturate the airwaves with video juxtaposing stoic looking male Senators against a crying Ford, carefully keeping the female counsel actually asking the questions off the screen.
But, ultimately, everything – Kavanaugh’s reputation, life and future, and that if his wife and daughters – have been handed by the Almighty into Grassley’s hands. If he takes control of the hearing and refuses to let devolve into a circus, Judge Kavanaugh will ultimately be Justice Kavanaugh by the weekend.
And the Blue Wave will die a much deserved grisly death.
They were all bad attorneys so they opted to run for Congress.
Indeed.
This is modus operandi for Grassley.
OTOH, he'll grant another delay if she's not there or if her lawyers want to raise more conditions.
No Socialist wrote:
“Democrats are rotten to the core. They are the enemy. They need to be eliminated from the government as much as possible. Pray for the next election.”
I was convinced many years ago, the fight for our American survival was not simply Left versus Right - it was a matter of Evil challenging Good.
"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." --Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822. ME 15:409"Faith" in the cultish Liberal/Progressive ideology robs the mind of "reason," just as surely as have other "religious" cults. Is it not about time for this "gullibility" to get off the stage of American politics?
Guaranteed if Kavanaugh goes first she will not answer any questions afterwards. This is just a ploy to get him grilled again without her ever testifying.
She does not want him in the room when she testifies. Simply keep him off site away from the building when she fails to show.When she fails to show and Dems ask if he wants to testify, have his attorney announce he is not in the building at Ford’s request and enter his affidavit in the record denying it occurred. Grassley can enter it in the record in lieu of his testimony, close the hearing and call for a committee vote.
Grassley, an old man, is ill-equipped to deal with today’s RATs.
The way it used to be is not the way it is today.
Grassley is living in the past, not present.
No, it won’t work. No way will K testify first. If she doesn’t show and testify nobody will.
It logically does not make sense to answer an accusation before it is even made. Libtard logic.
If she doesn't show, he shouldn't make any statement at all...
Cite American Law AND refuse.
Judge Kavanaugh has already testified under oath. His lawyers ought to submit that testimony to the Commitee and leave. He should not be compelled to sit for hours and provide his enemies with a target for their vile accusations.
No.. it won’t work. Kavanaugh is wayyyy too sharp to be taken in like that. No way will he agree under any circumstance to testify if there’s even the slightest chance the bitch would show up later.
Excellent.
Without the perps testimony any victim is clueless about what happened...duh/s
If she’s a no-show, then I wouldn’t go near the committee room on Thursday.
If Ford doesn’t show up, the hearing should be over.
If Ford testifies, Kavanaugh should be allowed to respond even if he has already testified.
And if not, then a hangin' tree, which he can use to do the right thing.
Senators,Our system of jurisprudence has always been based on the tenet of the presumption of innocence. The accuser must meet the burden of proving the accusation is true.
As a Justice on the Supreme Court, would you have had me rule that the burden was on Dredd Scott to show why he should be an American citizen, or should that burden have been on Sandford to demonstrate why Mr. Scott should not be a citizen?
Should the burden have been on Oliver Brown to show that the separate school his daughter was forced to attend was not equal to closer white-attended schools, or should that burden have been placed on the Topeka Board of Eductation to prove that "separate but equal" schooling was necessary?
Should I rule that the burden was on Ernesto Miranda to know his full legal rights when he was arrested, or should Arizona police have to inform Mr. Miranda of his right to an attorney when they arrested him?
Should Norma McCorvey have to justify to the state why she needed an abortion? Should Fred Korematsu have to prove his loyalty to the United States? Should women have to demonstrate their competency to sit on juries? Should the Cantwell family have to prove that their public expression of religion was not a breach of the peace and a public disturbance?
In our system, the accused has a right to know the specific charges and factual evidence against him or her. It is a mockery of our judicial system to suggest that a sitting federal appellate judge, or anyone else for that matter, has to prove his innocence against vague, unspecified, and suddenly recalled allegations, when the very essence of being a judge is to balance the rights of the accused with the rights of the accuser.
The burden of proof is on those who make the claims, not on those who are their targets.
Thank you.
-PJ
Oh you’re so right everybody I knows Kavanaugh is an imbecile and will be easily tricked wow you’re a genius! BTW whose going to win the World Series?
Ford will likely never show up.
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