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.
seems like you would to turn over the letter if that is the complaint they are using against him. How can they suppress that?
No doubt.
They will have one for every person on the Presidents list of candidates.
He is transparent, they are not.
Ummm, she’s had 30+ years to think about this... that’s plenty of time.
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Delay, delay dims.
They need more time to gut the web of what balsy Ford has been up to for decades now:here’s just one indication:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1042004460543672320.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal
Something very strange is going on.
Holton-Arms, the exclusive girls school of fraud #ChristineBlaseyFord Blasey (class of ‘84), has WIPED all their online yearbooks, within the last 24 hours.
issuu.com/holtonarmsscho…
2. Also, her entire online history was erased, prior to the fake allegations being made.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram - THE LOT.
Someone is trying to CONCEAL Blasey’s past. Christine Blasey has something to HIDE.
3. Then we have this bizarre letter with more than 200 signatories from students b/w 1967-2018, all supporting Blasey-Ford and expressing their ‘belief’ in her.
TWO HUNDRED + ?
The majority would never have even met the fraud. This ISN’T normal.
“If Grassley caves he will destroy he credibility.”
Then he has no credibility, because he just caved and postponed the Monday, September 24 Kavanaugh hearing.
There is scuttlebutt that POTUS’s recent tweet has enraged Susan Collins, and she is now balking. Likely Flake also got the vapors.
“He caved. Another 24 hour extension. Absolutely pathetic!”
Not only that, he has now postponed the Monday, September 24 Kavanaugh hearing! So, no vote on Kavanaugh on Monday.
“At least he clarified “a day”. Monday is still on.”
No, it’s not. He has postponed it.
Times up. Vote!
Any woman voter in this country who doesn’t see through this lying ho’s ridiculous charade is going to vote Rat anyway. Get on with it and quit kowtowing to her. It’s obscene.
They know that if they stall through Thursday, the odds of Kavanaugh being seated are next to nil. Time for Grassley to do that thing he does and schedule the vote because there’s far more evidence that the stall is the goal than there is that Kavanaugh ever said a mean word to a woman.
Collins was desperately searching for a reason to vote no.
Just got an FNC news alert that said Dems are talking about impeaching Kavanaugh after he’s confirmed.
Sounds like it’s all over except for the ‘Rat butt covering....
“Collins was desperately searching for a reason to vote no.”
She won’t have to: Grassley is going to let the Rats run out the clock.
Grassley is caving.
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