Posted on 09/21/2018 7:12:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, are asking the Judiciary Committee for an additional day to make a decision about testifying.
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Ford, sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee staff on Friday night calling the 10 p.m. timeline set by Chairman Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) staff "arbitrary" and an "aggressive and artificial" deadline.
"Its sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford and deprive her of the ability to make a considered decision that has life-altering implications for her and her family. She has already been forced out of her home and continues to be subjected to harassment, hate mail, and death threats," Katz wrote.
"Our modest request is that she be given an additional day to make her decision," she continued.
The email comes after Grassley's staff said they had given Ford until 10 p.m. on Friday to reach an agreement on their offer for a public hearing next Wednesday or they would move forward with a committee vote Monday on Kavanaugh's nomination.
"I’m extending the deadline for response yet again to 10 o’clock this evening. I’m providing a notice of a vote to occur Monday in the event that Dr. Ford’s attorneys don’t respond or Dr. Ford decides not to testify," Grassley said earlier Friday.
He added that if they couldn't get a deal on "a reasonable resolution as I’ve been seeking all week, then I will postpone the committee vote to accommodate her testimony. We cannot continue to delay.”
Lawyers for Ford and staff for Grassley have been locked in negotiations over the past day.
Ford's lawyers initially proposed a public hearing on Thursday; asked the committee subpoena Mark Judge, a Kavanaugh classmate and potential witness; and that Kavanaugh testify first.
Judiciary Committee staff responded on Friday with the offer of a Wednesday hearing, that Kavanaugh testify second and rejected her request to subpoena Judge.
Committee staff did agree to limit the number of cameras and keep Kavanaugh and Ford out of the same room.
But Katz said they were "stunned" to see Grassley move forward with a committee vote while negotiations were ongoing.
"You rejected a number of the proposals that are important to Dr. Ford to ensure that the process would be a fair one, including subpoenaing Mark Judge to testify. Instead, you spent much of your email making points that distorted the requests we had made and the sequence of events," Katz said.
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of pinning her to a bed during a high school party in the early 1980s, trying to remove her clothing and covering her mouth when she tried to protest. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations.
Over played her hand and they were more than fair. Now F her.
We have a winner. Johnny show us what fabulous prizes are behind the curtain for our contestant.
I’m starting to think this Blasey-Ford doesn’t really exist.
No one has seen her in public. She’s certainly not appeared before anyone in government, besides Diane Feinstein and her cronies. There is one stock photo the entire press uses.
Even her supposed “friends and relatives” are merely issuing statements through friendly mainstream media.
She won’t travel, and doesn’t want to be interviewed in public.
I think the hoax is greater than anyone has imagined.
Did I say, “No?”
“I meant, ‘Hell, no!’”
Exactly, all of this is over some perceived accusation that she may or may not come public with. All of this was for nothing.
Agree.
Rumor has it she might be in D.C. already!
You wait till the last minute before the deadline, then you ask for a new deadline. The circus continues.
She has already had since July. “F” her. She don’t need an “extra day”.
Congrats to Justice Kavanaugh.
Who is surprised by this total farce?
Not me.
We have Jeff Flake to thank for this. May that Judas rot in hell forever!
Are there any guts left on the GOP side of this equation?
Where have the strong men gone... this is unthinkable..when being played, for gods sake dont play.
Let’s see. Ten a.m.———crickets! Ten p.m.-———Uh give us another day. What time on Saturday? 1000 hrs? 2200 hrs? How about we’re done.
Democrat agenda: Delay Delay.
Ford agenda: Delay Delay.
Perfect match.
The Dems are so free with their weasel words. The date is ‘arbitrary and it is being done to bully Dr Ford’.Yet their proposal to delay (yet another) day is a ‘modest proposal’. We see through all the weasel words.....too bad the Dems don’t see through them. I remember reading a story back during the Clinton Admin that credited Clinton’s attorneys with ‘sophisticated maneuverings’, but damned the Starr attorneys with using ‘desperate tactics’. That was from the LATimes. I cancelled our subscription the very next day.
Great post
Time to get off the pot
She will now accuse Grassley of attacking her in 1988.
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