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.
more so than he already has.
I don't believe she is going to testify. If she does, her lawyers need to lose their licenses. To delay is their only option.
Their client will be too traumatized to make the trip. The republicans have been too inconsiderate to her. Her heroic effort was resisted by the evil republicans. Or, something like that.
To get a delay is an extra prize.
If the FBI should commence a background check, it should be on this chick. Wonder how that would go?
LOL, that’s putting it mildly. If the Republicans tried this exact stunt against a Democrat appointed Supreme Court nominee, you’d see wall-to-wall interviews and stories about Kavanaugh’s wife and daughters, treating them as the greatest Saints and victims the world has ever known. Not to mention all the clerks and former classmates of Kavanagh who vouched for his good name. Joy Behar and Katie Couric will take them all out to dinner. Christine Ford would be treated as a 10 times bigger piece of dirt than Paula Jones ever was.
Ummm...no. Already declined by Grassley in the letter to the lawyer. The one which mentioned the 5pm deadline.
...and how will they know *what* to ask him about if she doesn’t testify first? Come on.
“Well, Judge Kavannaugh, we know you were somewhere during the 2-3 years between 1982-1984...can you tell us where you were and who you were with every day/night?” “Did you ever attend a party?” “Did you ever have a beer when you were in high school?”
I suppose the only pertinent thing they can ask (imo) is “Did you know this woman, Christine Blasey? (assuming Blasey is her maiden name) and maybe something will spawn from that. (?)
He will say “No I did not”.
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Well I dont know how that could be as supposedly she talked to the FBI in San Francisco today and she does not like to fly so how did she get there so fast?
Feinstein is withholding written testimony
They said no to that.
She couldn’t remember the time, date,
location, and year.
My best guess to one of the redacted
lines in her letter:
I don’t remember WHO it was.
The woman had 35 or 36 freakin years to think about it.
It’s over!
That would be awesome.
I can see why some questions aren't asked or demands made.
This nut had her entire social life “scrubbed” from the web.
I wonder why?
That’s my first question.
Good question but remember we’re dealing with perpetual lairs who are so willing to destroy and ruin an innocent man’s life and career forever! Mark my words she’ll be there on Monday..bank on it! Afraid to fly my ass!!
Mine, as well. What was in there? hmmmm - would we find out that she was a party girl?
Maybe she is not real, but is a made up Dem person. (Kidding) Seriously, isn’t it all very, very vague?
The play is to get other women to come out of the woodwork once they see that they will get a go fund me account.. she won’t testify The chance that Kavanaugh has other women angry at him is virtually nil... which is why Feinstein made this her last option... #metoo fail
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