Posted on 09/25/2018 4:46:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is rejecting a request from Democrats to delay a Thursday hearing where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify.
Grassley sent a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, saying he would "respectfully decline" her request to postpone until the White House ordered an investigation into two sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh.
"I respectfully decline your request. I am not going to silence Dr. Ford after I promised and assured her that I would provide her a safe, comfortable, and dignified opportunity to testify," Grassley wrote in the letter.
The letter was sent on Tuesday and publicly released just minutes after Grassley's office announced it had scheduled a Friday committee vote on Kavanaugh's nomination.
Grassley added in his letter to Feinstein that there was "no reason" for delay the hearing, after lawyers for Ford, Kavanaugh's accuser, agreed to the Thursday date after days of negotiations.
He added delaying a hearing would be "unfair" to Kavanaugh, who has repeatedly said he is willing to publicly testify in order to clear his name.
"He has asked the Committee repeatedly for the chance to testify as soon as possible. He has categorically denied the allegations that have been made public. ...We can no longer stand in the way of him presenting his testimony before the Committee," Grassley added.
Feinstein in her letter to Grassley, which was sent on Sunday, argued that the hearing should be delayed until the FBI could investigate allegations from Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
Ford alleges that during a high school party in the early 1980s Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothes. Ramirez told The New Yorker in an interview published Sunday that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her when they were both students at Yale.
Kavanaugh has denied both allegations and Grassley added in his letter that he didn't think Ramirez's allegation would impact Ford's testimony.
"The obvious connection between the two claims is thatSenate Democrats hid both allegations of misconduct from the Committee and the public," he added.
Maybe Clint Eastwood could stand next to the empty easy chair?
I don’t think her conscience would
come into play. I think the perjury
charge is the repellent. She could
care less about ruining an outstanding
man’s reputation.
I see your point.
The Republicans need to say that LOUDLY and repeatedly.
It was SHE who failed to avail herself of the Senate's multiple offers to accommodate her, over and over again.
It was SHE and her lawyers who threw up roadblock after roadblock, preventing her voice from being heard by the nation.
It is SHE who has squandered her many opportunities to say her piece before the Senate, Judge Kavanaugh, and the people.
We The People and our elected representatives have been patient long enough!
That’s a disgusting picture. I wonder what medal the Evil, putrid bastard is wearing.
Better late than never for Grassley to learn the lesson that you can’t negotiate in good faith with rabid Rats.
Fords been available for their ‘use’ for several years it appears. Just as her attorney is and has been.
That pic looks nothing like the pics I’ve seen of her.
How long ago was this pic taken?
Of course they can. What's one more lie?
“I agree. She’s not that cold blooded. She knows she’s ruining the reputation of a decent, good man and her conscience won’t allow her to go ahead. At least I hope so.”
She’s a dim, therefor no conscience. The perjury threat could bankrupt her though, even without a conviction
I think that's Lyudmyla Kozlovska, a "Ukrainian Rights Activist."
She was younger there...
It appears possible.
Well looks like that ones a dude too...as is every photo anyone posts.....so how is it that there are no photos of this ‘professor’ anywhere to be had?????
You cannot clean sweep all those who have known her that surely have photos.....I figure google and the FBI are all in on this ‘cover’ for her ad there’s lots of $$$$$$$ flung to be sure nobody reveals her by photo.
Stunning there’s nothing out there....so who as that kind of power?
Well, well, well.
Looks like someone finally leaked a photo of Ford, and boy, isn’t it a doozy!
Brilliantly worded.
We can damn well bet that part of the reason for the delays is for a kick-ass makeover. On that mug, it can’t be done overnight.
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