Posted on 09/23/2018 2:27:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a decades-old sexual assault has accepted a Senate committee's request to tell her side next week but Christine Blasey Ford wants to resume negotiations over the exact terms of her appearance, her lawyers said Saturday.
It was not immediately clear whether the Republican-run Senate Judiciary Committee would agree to more talks with Ford's team. Also unclear was when she might come to Capitol Hill and she was offering to speak in a public session or a private one. The committee wanted her to appear Wednesday, but she prefers her earlier request for Thursday, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Her lawyers' letter to the committee's GOP majority was released just at the 2:30 p.m. deadline set by the chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, to respond to the panel's latest offer. Grassley, R-Iowa, had set a possible Monday vote to decide whether to recommend Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate.
As Republicans were considering their next move in private talks Saturday, they also made it clear they viewed Ford's offer as a way to delay voting on President Donald Trump's pick for the court.
A senior official at the White House said the letter amounted to "an ask to continue 'negotiations' without committing to anything. It's a clever way to push off the vote Monday without committing to appear Wednesday." The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the Senate negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity....
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That means anybody can delay a SC vote for no reason at all except to be disruptive,
That Republicans are allowing this is embarassing.
Shouldn’t she go to the Police first ? LOL
She’s never going to show up.
Her ambulance chaser has mastered the art of pussyfooting around the law chumps take bait.
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