Posted on 09/25/2018 2:20:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Schumer: ‘There Is No Presumption of Innocence’ for Kavanaugh
BY: Aryssa Damron September 25, 2018 4:40 pm
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said on Tuesday there is "no presumption of innocence" for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when it comes to sexual misconduct allegations because "this is not a criminal trial."
"There is no presumption of innocence or guilt when you have a nominee before you," Schumer told reporters during a press conference on Capitol Hill.
His remarks contrast those from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who said on Tuesday that Kavanaugh deserved the presumption of innocence.
"I think everybody in America understands there's a presumption of innocence. That standard of fairness is applied to every American citizen in almost every situation. I think we ought to go into these hearings with a presumption of innocence, but hear the argument on the other side, the testimony on the other side so the members of the Senate can make a decision here on a very, very significant matter," McConnell said.
Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women, one who accused the nominee of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s while they were both in high school and another who says he exposed himself at a party while they were both students at Yale. Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, who says he groped her at a party 36 years ago, are expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
"It's not a legal proceeding, it's a fact-finding proceeding," Schumer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
“’I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years,’ she said. She struggled academically and socially, she said...”
Wikipedia claims she was born in 1967.
“She graduated in 1984 from Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland.
“She earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.”
“Ford first started teaching at Stanford University in 1988.”
Her academic progress doesn’t seem to have gotten derailed.
“Ford described a ‘rape attempt’ in her late teens.”
“She said she believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda.”
The age 15 is mid-teens, not late teens.
I certainly hope all of these over the top statements are being compiled for future use . . .
His being a Senator raises that possibility significantly.
Yes! Guns, ammo, and range time. You FReepers in states with snitch laws, be careful whom you talk to, now more than ever.
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There is no presumption of Intelligence, nor honesty for Schumer.
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>> “This fellow really deserves a very unpleasant end.” <<
And he will get one too!
“There will be gnashing of teeth...”
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Chuck-U chucks the traditional American presumption of innocence down the drain.
What a schmuck!
Yuck Fou Schmuck Chumer!!!
You can’t a prove a negative.
Of course, if Kavanaugh drowned in the river, he’d be innocent. Right, Chuck?
Hey Schumer, McCain called and said that your room is ready.
I am ashamed and embarrassed that F Chuck Schumer and his hack puppet Gillibean represent me in The Senate. I just do not have the words to go any further.
I hate to say it, but the commie bastard is right.
Right on the Constitution and right on the law.
Now I’m gonna buy a bottle of good whiskey and drink til I puke. (Metaphorically. I don’t drink.)
Inasmuch as it is not a criminal trial, and no one has a right to any senator’s confirmation vote, that is true..OTOH Judge Kavanaugh does retain the right to vindicate his character in a defamation lawsuit - as he will need to if his nomination is not confirmed - and it should be a doozie. The MSM - personified as “The Associated Press and its Members” will be uncomfortable when named as defendant. That defendant not only has oozed actual malice from every pore, and committed industrial-scale libel, it has attacked a plaintiff who as a sitting judge and as a SCOTUS nominee should not be considered a “public man” under Times v. Sullivan. And in light of the behavior of the defendant, the very validity of Times v. Sullivan can be called into question.
Furthermore, that "industrial-scale libel” was committed by an entity which has already been found to be in violation of the Sherman AntiTrust Act of 1890. It was formed prior to 1890, and the suit in which it was found in violation of Sherman was, ironically, filed by another wire service and did not touch the issues of this case - but still.
In this case the violation of Sherman lies in the collusion of the members of the AP. Which, as Adam Smith could have predicted, was the inevitable result of a century-and-a-half of continual virtual meeting among them which is the AP “wire.” And the mission of the AP - the conservation of scarce, expensive telegraphy bandwidth in the dissemination of the news - has been obsoleted by modern communications technology. The AP is not too big to fail.
The transparent nature of the assassination of character involved in the systematic generation of charges which cannot possibly be proven true or false marks it as an exercise in cynicism - and anyone whose vote is affected by it attached a moral stigma to herself or himself.
Plunomium
Gee, I wonder if Keith Ellison will be given the Schumer Inquisition?
Looks like there will be many overnight letters to the Senate about Schumer.
We can only hope.
Is that for real or just a dose of wishful justice?
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