Posted on 09/23/2018 9:01:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also made clear that Republicans "are not going to turn the hearing over to her lawyers" by allowing them to dictate which witnesses to call, or in what order to call the witnesses. If Ford's lawyer's persist, Graham said, "there won't be a hearing."
The South Carolina Republican specifically took an apparent shot at Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who received Ford's allegations in a confidential letter in July through a Northern California congresswoman. Ford only went public last week after news of the letter's existence leaked to the Intercept -- a leak Republicans have linked to Senate Democrats.
"I'm want to listen to Dr. Ford," Graham said. "I feel sorry for her. I think she's being used here. If she truly wanted to be anonymous, the person who brought this allegation to the public owes her an apology."
"We're not going to turn over to the other side how many witnesses to call. There will be two witnesses, Dr. Ford, then Judge Kavanaugh, and we'll hire our own counsel. ... If they continue to contest those two things, there won't be a hearing. If they really want to be heard, they can be heard in a small room with a lot of security, limited press availability, she'll be treated fairly. But we're not going to turn the hearing over to her lawyers." Asked by Wallace whether Republicans wanted to bring in outside lawyers simply to avoid the optics of having the all-male Republican contingent on the Judiciary Committee asking Ford questions, Graham said there were other concerns at play.
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I am amazed that this accusation has survived to this point. The committee saw it was politically imposed and void of substantiation.
There has to be a standard of credibility to proceed to a hearing. You can’t be ruining a person’s life with this sort of sanctioned defamation.
That’s what happens when the Media is an arm of the DNC.
I predict the train is going to leave the station & Ford won’t be on it or in the train station or parking lot.
>>The sissy grows a pair? We’ll see.<<
I am seeing they are letting the liar “testify” on Thursday so the answer is: no.
I feel sorry for her, too. She's cray-cray and needs to be locked up in a mental facility for a very long time. This fiasco was in the works for a very long time and she has been used by evil ones. If she wants Kavanaugh to go first, then so be it, nevermind that's not what the rules say. Let the famous 4 all deny knowing anything about a party. Let her come in at the end and the minute she testifies anything happened, she's done and the men with butterfly nets can escort her out.
Too late, Lindsey. I just read that Grassley has totally caved and will hold the first day of Ford’s assassination of Kavanaugh on Thursday.
It appears Graham has come to his senses.
I like the new Senator from South Carolina and he will make an excellent Chairman of the committee when the time comes.
Lindsey, thank you... McCain’s death freed you...
Seances to Hell don’t always work?
How many ‘accusers’ put together a high dollar team of lawyers just to put forth an accusation like Ford has done ? Other than Mueller of course, but that’s a witch hunt, right? Hmmmmmm democrats, witch hunts. Seeing a pattern ?
Maybe there’s hope for him now that his Sith master is dead.
Yup, that’s how sociopathic drama queens behave.
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