Posted on 09/21/2018 7:12:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, are asking the Judiciary Committee for an additional day to make a decision about testifying.
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Ford, sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee staff on Friday night calling the 10 p.m. timeline set by Chairman Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) staff "arbitrary" and an "aggressive and artificial" deadline.
"Its sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford and deprive her of the ability to make a considered decision that has life-altering implications for her and her family. She has already been forced out of her home and continues to be subjected to harassment, hate mail, and death threats," Katz wrote.
"Our modest request is that she be given an additional day to make her decision," she continued.
The email comes after Grassley's staff said they had given Ford until 10 p.m. on Friday to reach an agreement on their offer for a public hearing next Wednesday or they would move forward with a committee vote Monday on Kavanaugh's nomination.
"I’m extending the deadline for response yet again to 10 o’clock this evening. I’m providing a notice of a vote to occur Monday in the event that Dr. Ford’s attorneys don’t respond or Dr. Ford decides not to testify," Grassley said earlier Friday.
He added that if they couldn't get a deal on "a reasonable resolution as I’ve been seeking all week, then I will postpone the committee vote to accommodate her testimony. We cannot continue to delay.”
Lawyers for Ford and staff for Grassley have been locked in negotiations over the past day.
Ford's lawyers initially proposed a public hearing on Thursday; asked the committee subpoena Mark Judge, a Kavanaugh classmate and potential witness; and that Kavanaugh testify first.
Judiciary Committee staff responded on Friday with the offer of a Wednesday hearing, that Kavanaugh testify second and rejected her request to subpoena Judge.
Committee staff did agree to limit the number of cameras and keep Kavanaugh and Ford out of the same room.
But Katz said they were "stunned" to see Grassley move forward with a committee vote while negotiations were ongoing.
"You rejected a number of the proposals that are important to Dr. Ford to ensure that the process would be a fair one, including subpoenaing Mark Judge to testify. Instead, you spent much of your email making points that distorted the requests we had made and the sequence of events," Katz said.
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of pinning her to a bed during a high school party in the early 1980s, trying to remove her clothing and covering her mouth when she tried to protest. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations.
Just ignore the rats.
Prediction: Based on the tone of the lawyer’s snotty reply, insulting Sen. Grassley and all GOP and Dregs—Ford will NOT testify. They WANT to be overruled, so they can spend the weekend news programs trashing Judge K and the GOP. The woman could never stand up to scrutiny of cross-examination.
All this is aimed at the squishy GOP senators and nothing more. I doubt that even Flake, Corker, Collins and Murkowski will fall for this.
Total PR gambit.
The ‘Pubs have given the ‘Rats the leeway on everything associated with this fiasco. Much more so than they would have given us if the roles were reversed. Time to wrap this thing up and salvage whatever credibility this group of reprobates has left (if any).
NO NO NO
First she can’t fly, now she needs another day to decide.
All this is about is DELAY, DELAY, AND MORE DELAY.
She has no story and she wants Kavanugh to go first so she can make up a story, except he doesn’t know anything.
I can’t think of another time a witness has caused this much trouble and is holding up a Senate Committee.
Vote and let the chips fall.
Hell no!
Wow, they requested that Kavanaugh testify first. Our party will be stupid enough to concede to her request.
As I have posted on previous threads regarding CBF, she was never NEVER going to testify. Still believe that and if the Republicans fail to move forward, they will be complicit in the Democrats’ plan to deny Kavanaugh.
Good point. Has the MSM located her and even tried to get an interview? I haven’t seen any pictures or footage of her at all since this broke, only some old pictures.
Exactly where in hiding is she? You would think she would be all over the media with her story, yet she isn’t.
The only logical reason is she doesn’t have any facts to provide to give her any legitimacy. Somehow she thought she could remain nameless and a mystery.
So how many times has he caved so far? Gave them a week, now moved to next Wednesday. Now they want Thursday.
He caved. Another 24 hour extension. Absolutely pathetic!
This is a Soros-funded jerk job that the RINOs are allowing themselves to be sucked into. More delays. More BS.
End this side show.
Dr. Ford, while working as a waitress in Dewey Beach, did you ever have the nickname /Roundheels/?
Grassley should demand that unless Feinstein delivers the unredacted letter, they will proceed with a vote. But DiFi can and will continue to give the finger to Grassley.
She is never held accountable for her stunts, her leaks, her spy, her wealth on the backs of taxpayers.
I don’t think so. The accuser is first in all cases.
Justice Kavanaugh has nothing to say. He wasn’t there.
“arbitrary, aggressive and artificial deadline”
What are they talking about??? We’ve bowed to every one of their demands.
“Its sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford...”
Please - Who’s bullying who?
“Our modest request...”
At least they’re calling this one a “request”. smh
Democrats are the bullies and always have been and it’s because we have given in every time that we keep getting bullied by them. It works the same in DC as it does on the playground in elementary school. I’m tired of Republicans letting them take our lunch money.
If we give in to them completely this time - I’ve lost all hope for Republicans...and I’ve actually never said that before, even during zero’s reign. They apparently care more about their image to leftists than the rule of law and our Constitution.
At least he clarified “a day”. Monday is still on.
link?
“Can I watch TV for just another ten minutes? Can I Ma?”
This is ridulous. Put off the decision. Put off the hearing. Bring another surprise witness. Put off the vote for a week.
Pretty soon it’s November.
The Republicans are doing what they always do—they let their own guilty consciences get in the way of acting like grownups.
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