Posted on 09/21/2018 12:31:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Senate Republicans on Friday extended a counteroffer to Christine Blasey Ford to testify on Capitol Hill next Wednesday, amid negotiations over whether Ford will elaborate on her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in public.
It was not immediately clear whether Ford would accept the offer. Fox News was told that the Republican senators want an answer “by the end of the day.”
“We need to hear from her,” said one senior source familiar with the process. “Monday is the preferred date. But we are open to other things.”
A senior Republican source told Fox News “we can’t postpone forever.”
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her while both were in high school. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had invited Ford to testify on Monday and gave Ford until 10 a.m. Friday to respond. That deadline passed Friday without a deal after Ford’s attorneys made clear this week Ford didn’t want to testify Monday but suggested she would another day.
Ford attorney Debra Katz told the Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Ford is willing to appear for a hearing on Capitol Hill as long as senators provide "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety."
Among the terms requested by Ford’s legal team: Only members of the committee -- no lawyers -- can question her; Kavanaugh cannot be in the room at the time; and Kavanaugh should be questioned first, before he has the opportunity to hear Ford's testimony.
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If they were working in the private sector, they would have been walked out of the building decades ago.
How stupid do you need to be to be a Senator?
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They are senators BECAUSE they cannot do anything else!
Is this like Obamba’s line in the sand?
Will our guys please grow a pair?
Cheese and Rice, Grassley.
GOP losers. Glad I quit the party. Going down in flames in Nov!
Linguini spines _ do court cases move the date and time to satisfy the litigants? No they show up when and as summoned. If the conniver won’t abide then dismiss her lying ash.
Between this and the wall...and the document release.... I don’t mind politicians being played for idiots, but I now know I am and I resent it.
Monday is the best day.
She can fly to DC and spend the whole weekend trying to find the house with her lawyer.
Once she finds the house, it will be easier for everybody actually involved to recollect.
Having it Monday means she loses less time off work.
Collins, not Snow. Sorry.
“What changed ?”
Are the republicans in control of the senate? Why are they allowing the left any voice at all in the Kavanaugh confirmation?
#Scumbags #rino&neverTrumper SCUMBAGS
“The folding begins.”
It began when they “negotiated” after the 10 AM deadline. It would a well on its way now.
No one with an unsubstantiated claim from 36 years ago should have been given any kind of hearing.
It’s over. The Deepstate won, they aren’t going to allow SCOTUS to break free.
The government is now officially being held hostage. Perhaps someone should ask Feinstein if she has any more files so we can weed out potential nominees now.
Kavanaugh has a clean personal life and here comes the RATS trying to slime him. An open sewer smells much nicer than a corrupt RAT in DC!
The sequence is the the committee votes, the nomination is sent to the Senate, THEY debate for probably a week or two, and then THEY vote.
OK, on Monday, the committee can vote to send the nomination to the Senate floor, and then she can appear in front of the committee while Senate debate is occurring. Meanwhile, the clock continues to run.
Grassly is allowing her to play him and company like a fiddle, and a Stradivarius at that. Most of the DC Repubs have clearly been castrated
“It’s over. The Deepstate won, they aren’t going to allow SCOTUS to break free.”
I hate to agree with you but it’s looking that way.
Monday or nothing. Actually, it should be nothing to begin with.
Friday news dump no hearing my guess
Every day of delay pretty much means a delay for every pending case of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has a heavy workload. Its cases are important.
Which one?
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