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.
Ford’s Hail Mary. Better not work.
The Senators should all bring model railroad engines to the hearing. Or else wear cock-and-balls hats. (If pussy hats are OK, then the others ought to be as well. Besides, if the Senators wore pussy hats, there is a great risk they’d be mistaken for ID.)
Women are supposed to be just as strong as men. Let her prove it.
Why do we have to coddle women when they tell us they're equal to men?
If she wants to testify she testifies on Monday, in public, before Kavanaugh testifies, and with Kavanaugh in the room so he can face his accuser as our system prescribes.
We MUST NOT compromise our system.
Because they are not equal to men in a real world environment
When I was in Sierra Leone their bloated bodies lined the ditches along with their slaughtered babies
American women are naive about equality
The world is hard on women left unprotected by men
In God We Trust
Has Ford explained why does not want to testify on Monday? Is she having her nails done?
Since this is a hearing and not a criminal trial, she can probably get away with not having Kavanaugh in the room (but she shouldn’t), but there is no way that he should go first. If they choose that as their excuse to not participate, I won’t be surprised.
Someone needs to remind the liberals that the #MeToo movement has to do with a person of influence sexually harassing someone he or she can either fire or blackball. This is not the case with CBF. In fact, her resume is probably enhanced now with book deals and universities clamoring for her story. Maybe even a Law and Order: SVU treatment of it.
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?
An accused person is allowed to face their accuser. It is preposterous that this woman should be allowed an environment “where she feels comfortable”, including not having the man she is accusing of a serious act present to face her. If she feels that a fleeting act which may or may NOT have occurred 36 years ago is important enough to bring it to national attention as she has done, she then has the responsibility to say it to his face. Don’t back down on this, Mr. Grassley.
Abortion lobby will move onto weed after this nonsense is shot down.
Smoke and Mirrors.
Hold the line!
A bunch of kangaroos
Her scamming payout from GofundMe just closed at $210,000.
fraudster’s reward
She is making ridiculous demands so that Grassley will have no choice but to turn them down. This gives her cover to back out - she was never going to testify in the first place - and say “see those old white men are just a bunch of bullies”.
Too bad the broader cause of #metoo will be damaged but whatever.
Tell her, uhh no. That’s not how it works. You will be asked 5 questions:
1. What is an underage girl doing with 4 boy in an adult less house?
2. Why were you willing to give your story with no conditions to the Washington post 30 days before you were outed?
3. What law was broken by judge Kavenaugh if you were not raped or physically assaulted, and what are the stature of limitations of this so called crime?
4. Why didn’t you even tell to police or your own parents if this was so traumatic?
5. How much money has either George Soros or any left wing groups paid you to tell this story, and when can we see you bank account transactions for the last month?
all this is .. is a SorozNazi style SMEAR and DELAY effort
while they threaten the nominee’s family, wife...
trying to push him to withdraw his candidacy
that would delay filling the SCt seat until after the midterm elections (which is when we can expect to see HUGE SorozNazi style financing of every conceivable trick to steal seats)
Dr. Jekyll-Ford, Mrs. Hyde-Ford?
Her scamming payout from GofundMe just closed at $210,000.
fraudster’s reward
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Yep... and since GoFundMe receipts are considered gifts they are not subject to income taxes. Nice SCAM indeed.
Sonar reports are that she's breaking up...
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