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.
Grassely is pretty crafty and has been around the block a few times with nominations. So far, he seems intent on getting this woman to talk and the Dems seem equally intent on her not talking. Makes me wonder if Chuck is sitting on some exculpatory evidence. Feinstein herself even admitted she didn’t know if the accusations were truthful.
Kavanaugh should be there front and center when Ford testifies, where she will have to lie to his face.
Dianne Feinstein's Hail Mary. The Democrats own this.
If it works, the GOP will have a catastrophe on their hands come Election Day.
Remember, this is all a delaying tactic and nothing else. They want to push this back so that it pushes past the planned recess and then they can push to table the vote until after the elections.
The mistake here is the Senate allowing this to go on so long. Obviously this woman is full of crap.
Take the vote. It won’t matter because the left will harrass this guy from here on out anyway.
No. Childish games are for Democrats. We need sober, serious adults to shut this nonsense down. This should've happened the moment Feinstein started reading her letter. It's gone on too long as it is.
Exactly. The Dems are making demands so ridiculous that they know they will not be accepted, giving them what they want- OPTICS... which is to show the evil Reps. attacking this poor victim of masculinity and patriarchy. Ford is a piss ant and should be dealt with as such.
Stick to Senate protocol. Either Ford complies with the rules or she watches the hearings on TV. BOOM!
This is how crazy people talk.
No surprise at all she became a Psychologist.
I’ve meet a few good ones but most spend their lives looking for flaws in others while ignoring their own very serious problems.
Alinsky, ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. That and calling your opponents Nazis right off the bat.
Extortion. .yep...Laura Ingraham said that this a.m.
Thanks for the post. Yours are almost always some of the very best.
I’m sure they do.
Thank you.
Do you still think the Republicans were wrong for not rushing this?
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