In the comments to BettyC’s thread about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation I made the following statement (emphasis mine):
And before anyone asks, yes, I too believe her. She had nothing to gain and everything to lose, including her life given the political moment we’re living in, to come forward about this.
The New York Times has reported (emphasis mine):
In the letter to the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday evening, Dr. Blasey’s lawyers said that she has been the target of “vicious harassment and even death threats” since her name was made public on Sunday in an interview published in The Washington Post. Her email has been hacked, she has been impersonated online and she and her family have been forced to relocate out of their home, according to the lawyers, Ms. Banks and her partner, Debra S. Katz.
Josh Marshall highlighted a converging of Republican senatorial talking points, including by Senator Collins.
But I want to note what appears to be clearly a unified strategy among Republican Senators to put the onus on Professor Ford personally and blame her if the hearing doesn’t happen. They’ve unilaterally announced a process and are now arguing that Ford is at fault if she doesn’t agree. Look at the specific wording.
Read these quotes, which clearly come from a pre-arranged agreement.
Mitch McConnell said Ford will have “the opportunity to be heard.”
Sen. Grassley’s spokesperson: “Our staff reached out to Dr. Ford’s lawyer with multiple emails yesterday to schedule a similar call and inform her of the upcoming hearing, where she will have the opportunity to share her story with the Committee. Her lawyer has not yet responded.”
Sens Collins and Cornyn are referring to Ford’s non-response so far.
Sen. Collins: “That’s very puzzling to me…I really hope that she doesn’t pass up that opportunity.”
Sen. Cornyn: “That’s pretty telling, she hasn’t responded to the committee’s normal processes and we don’t know if she’s coming or not but this is her chance. This is her one chance. We hope she does.”
debbie
So, basically the GOP will add to the trauma Ford’s suffered over the past three decades? Got it. There is something more destructive than mere death threats.
guachi
I hope Dr. Ford shows up on Monday. But I’m not Dr. Ford and will lay no blame if she doesn’t.
Since I believe her I feel she can’t go wrong in front of the panel. She’s a professor who’s used to speaking to people so she should come off well.
The Republicans and Kavanaugh can only look terrible.
TenguPhule
No, we want their heads to roll, not ours.
TenguPhule
if Republicans were smart they’d be Democrats by now. Like Cole.
sukabi
Trump won’t pull him because they’ve got his secrets in their pocket which is a guarantee that he’ll rule trump wants. He’s Trump’s get out of jail judge.
dmsilev
The letter from her attorneys to Grassley lays things out pretty clearly. Key chunk:
PhoenixRising
On every issue but one–whether a sitting POTUS can be indicted–Kavanaugh is replacement-level. Any other white dude (or dudette) will do the same damage to Roe and voting rights. I get why Dollhands won’t pull the nomination. I don’t get why Senate Republicans won’t tell the nominee that his best bet is to go back to a job he’s about to be old enough to retire from anyhow.
The inmates are running the asylum, is Occam’s reply.
Still haven’t hit a crisis we didn’t generate, y’all. Sleep tight!
debbie
@guachi:
Nothing would intimidate the GOP more than for Dr. Ford to attend the hearing. They wouldn’t know what to do with themselves.
Bobby Thomson
Everything to lose.
And sweet Jesus I hate Susan Collins. She is the most reprehensible Republican in Congress and that’s saying a lot.
different-church-lady
Me, I’m looking forward to references to “The sexual harassment block of the Supreme Court.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Bobby Thomson
@PhoenixRising:
That’s a red herring. Kavanaugh can’t act alone and if Roberts would go along with it any replacement presumably would as well.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
She and her husband were in therapy because her trauma had impacted her entire life. This kind of shit does not go away.
Omnes Omnibus
Okay, let’s do this. Is it Blasey? Ford? Blasey Ford? Blasey-Ford? If she is doing this, we should be able to figure out how to do her name correctly.
PhoenixRising
@Bobby Thomson: I agree. And if I were POTUS that would be important. But then we’d have different problems.
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: In the letter her attorneys wrote (quoted above), they use ‘Dr. Ford’.
debbie
@PhoenixRising:
No, I think that’s exactly how Trump does think.
burnspbesq
The Republicans’ objective here is to treat her so horribly that no similarly situated woman will even consider coming forward in the future.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: Ford it is then. That’s what I had been using, but I didn’t want to add insult…
different-church-lady
@burnspbesq:
NotMax
“How long have you been or were you receiving treatment for mental health problems?
/first question by Rs on Monday. Bank on it.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: She uses Blasey as her professional name. So when I’m just calling her by her professional appellation and her last name, I used Blasey. The GOP senators Marshall quoted went with Ford.
Dog Dawg Damn
Apparently she isn’t going to testify until after an FBI investigation, which is probably enough to give GOP the very threadbare excuse they need to ignore her. Which is fine; they can answer for it at the ballot box.
catbirdman
The beauty of the Dems’ strategy is that, even allowing only a week before the scheduled hearing, you get a week of this:
https://www.facebook.com/CBSThisMorning/videos/263233521192577/
Sure, a week of 97-year-old-looking-and-sounding cadaverous dinosaurs like Orrin Hatch assuring the world that Dr. Ford is “mistaken” — when the Senate won’t even allow the third person in the room to testify — is exactly how the GOP wants to kick off the home stretch for November. This is one of the most kick-ass political moves I’ve ever seen from the Dems. I’m actually proud of us.
B.B.A.
@Dog Dawg Damn: why would the FBI be involved? Isn’t this a matter for the Montgomery County PD?
rikyrah
@Bobby Thomson:
Can’t stand that phony azz Susie Collins ??
Gin & Tonic
@B.B.A.: The FBI does background checks for people nominated for Federal positions.
oldgold
“The Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten nothing,” Talleyrand is famously quoted as having said after the first fall of Napoleon in 1814 and restoration of the French monarchy under Louis XVIII.
The GOP Senators reigning over the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley and Hatch, disgraced veterans of the Anita Hill debacle, are latter-day Bourbons.
dmsilev
@NotMax: “Ever since Mr. Kavanaugh tried to rape me, so that’d be about thirty years now.”
Adam L Silverman
@B.B.A.: The request is for the FBI to reopen the background investigation they completed for his nomination because of this new accusation. Special agents acting as investigatory officers would interview her, her therapist, people she may have told contemporaneously, people she told well after the fact, review her therapist’s notes, interview Kavanaugh, interview Judge, then write an addendum to the background investigation report for the Senate Judiciary Committee to review. Then after that is done, then new hearings are held.
Cheryl Rofer
@Omnes Omnibus: In a now-removed part of a New York Times article, they said that she uses Blasey professionally. The various iterations of the article can be found here.
eemom
Seems to me her attorneys have taken an eminently reasonable position.
Maybe I’m being unfair, but I kinda doubt the vermin are going to do likewise and agree to an FBI investigation. So the question becomes, what will they do if she doesn’t show up on Monday? Will they dare to say, oh well, she had her chance, and go ahead with a vote?
Frankensteinbeck
@PhoenixRising:
Hell, no. Everything I’ve heard about his testimony and past rulings is that while Kennedy was hard Right, Kavanaugh is bugfuck insane Right, with a rustling in his jimmies to make birth control illegal and repeal every federal regulation on businesses and wealth. He just doesn’t drool when he says it like Gorsuch.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Now, I has a confuzzled.
@B.B.A.: Original crime is state. Lying to Feds is something else. You are out of your depth.
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
And all that would take a nice long time.
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: This is the new GOP strategy:
Gin & Tonic
@eemom:
Yes.
Bobby Thomson
@Omnes Omnibus: she goes by Blasey professionally.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I had to go back and check everything about three times before I was comfortable that I had it right and could hit publish.
sukabi
@dmsilev: and that’s the winning response. No shame in seeking help. The shame is in denigrating someone who does.
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: The FBI could get the interviews done within a week or so if it was deemed a priority.
TriassicSands
I believe Ford’s accusations, but I don’t entirely agree with this:
People are very different and in a situation where one person might not gain a thing and might risk a lot, another person might view the risks and rewards very differently. One question is Did she stand to gain enough to make it worth the downside? It’s hard to see that coming up as a positive transaction.
I don’t want to go into a detailed hypothetical description of what some people might hope to get out of preventing a radical right-wing SCOTUS nominee from being confirmed. That’s because I believe her accusations and I think — but only think — that in her likely calculus the downside of going public with this would almost certainly outweigh the upside. I also think that the way she did this further encourages that same conclusion. But I could be wrong.
What I find most disturbing is that we live in a time and have one major political party that is so corrupt that only an accusation like this could slow down the confirmation of a person who will do tremendous harm on the Supreme Court. The fact that he’s a right-wing, religious zealot is OK.
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
I wonder if there’s some lawsuit somebody can file to stop that from happening.
eemom
Big standing issue, obviously.
catclub
@Adam L Silverman:
Aren’t there confidentiality conditions for therapist’s notes?
Adam L Silverman
B.B.A.
@Omnes Omnibus: Forgive my naive assumption that a rapist would be prosecuted for rape.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bobby Thomson: @Adam L Silverman: I wasn’t criticizing anyone. I really do just want to refer to her the way she wants. Simple respect. She deserves it.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: He probably didn’t actually pass his first background check.
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: Doubtful that the Federal courts would interfere in the Senate’s scheduling decisions.
If you really wanted this slowed down, her attorney would go to the Montgomery County, Maryland DA and press charges. This crime has no statute of limitations in Maryland.
Omnes Omnibus
@B.B.A.: You talked about federal charges. They exist.
Adam L Silverman
@catclub: There are, but they can be waived for this type of thing.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I figured.
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: He did. The background checks they do for these things are basically the same ones they do for eligibility for high level clearances. They rely on both the subject of the investigation and everyone else they talk to to be truthful in their answers. It also includes a criminal background check. If there is no actual criminal record, something like this won’t show up. And given that Ford and Kavanaugh were, at best, passing acquaintances, there was no reason the FBI investigators would have had to talk to her.
Adam L Silverman
OT: You know who else hasn’t seen these documents? Devin Nunes. He has Trey Gowdy review all this stuff because Nunes can’t be bothered!
Chetan Murthy
I know some jackals here think that she should testify. I must demur. I think that unless there’s a thorough investigation, including interviews with all the witnesses (per WaPo, there were two others at that party other than the victim and the two perps), this is a he-said/she-said situation.
Let’s be honest with ourselves: the GrOPer Sens already know their decision — they just need a fig leaf to cover it. They’re hoping that KavENOUGH will be a better speaker than Dr. Ford. But the truth of a person’s accusations, is not correlated with their ability as a public speaker. That’s why we have evidence, investigations, etc. So that “whether Guinevere was chaste” doesn’t come down to which of Lancelot or Gawain is a better public speaker [yes yes, it’s still kind of that way b/c lawyers speak to convince the jury, but still].
If I were she, I would not speak without an investigation. She is a biostatistician. Who knows how she’ll fare under asshole testimony?
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: A long time ago, I played rugby. This thing makes me want to hit people to feel better. This is not good. Also, the person I could vent to is being all Jewish and shit.*
*I wish you an easy fast.
Adam L Silverman
And the FBI gets aggressively passive:
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: how does a guy with sketchy finances and more than likely a gambling problem pass a legitimate background check? My guess is his connections got him a pass.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
(John McEnroe voice) McConnell cannot be serious! I think it unlikely that an investigation into Kavanaugh would turn up anything but more allegations against him, and possibly more damaging ones.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I understand. And I’ve had a hell of a couple of days with work related stuff, so I’m right their with you.
And thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
@sukabi: Yale?
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Make it so!
Viva BrisVegas
@NotMax:
Answer: Do you mean the problems occasioned by the sexual assault on me by Mr Kavanaugh?
Cheryl Rofer
Here’s someone the FBI might interview.
TriassicSands
@sukabi:
He passed because the FBI is nothing but a hive of left-wing Trump haters…
Oh, wait…
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: My left leg is still twitchy af.
Adam L Silverman
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
Why not, when something of this magnitude is at stake? I don’t know of any legal reason that they couldn’t. In the beginning, of course, it all depends on a single federal judge, and then on the appeals court, and THEN…….
rikyrah
MJ Lee (@mj_lee) Tweeted:
Jim Gensheimer, who has been friends w/ Christine Blasey Ford for 8 years, just gave me this statement — he says she has previously told him about “her need to have more than one exit door in her bedroom to prevent her from being trapped.”
https://t.co/bom5y43CXJ https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1042219178579644416?s=17
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@sukabi: Yglesias did a thread on rightwing, Ivy League lawyers today
he doesn’t mention the pretty much limitless cash from the Coors and the Kochs and Waltons and the Mercers and the Mars and….
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: As long as you have a legitimate, reasonable explanation for the investigator and it can be verified by the investigator, then you’re fine. Remember, these investigations are to determine if the subject of them may present a threat to national security.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Gonna rain?
Chetan Murthy
@rikyrah: The lack of a gentile equivalent of “shonda fur de goymin” is …. more and more pronounced. Or more precisely, “shonda fur de boyeeez”.
eemom
Look, they are WORRIED about this shit. No better evidence of that than the fact that even trump has more or less shut the fuck up about it.
Whatever happens, the important thing is for it to stay front and center in the public mind, such at it is.
I don’t know Dr. Ford, of course, but I’m thinking that if it’s a choice between showing up on Monday and allowing this shitsack to get confirmed, she’ll show up. That’s consistent with her actions so far.
And if she does show up — horrible as it would be for her — no WAY does it end well for him.
Adam L Silverman
@Cheryl Rofer: Here you go:
sharl
Someone started a GoFundMe to provide security for Dr. Blasey. After ~three hours, with a funding goal of $50,000, it’s already at $32,833. I haven’t checked it out in any detail for “legitimacy” (and not sure how I would), but the person who started it appears to be on the up-and-up:
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Yeah, I had a few experiences with the boys from Babson that are very similar.
Litlebritdifrnt
@TriassicSands: Grhhhh its Lose not Loose! Drives me nuts.
rikyrah
@Omnes Omnibus:
The name thing is very important. Thank you.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cheryl Rofer: the writer comments on the misogyny and idea that “women should know their place” in that crowd. Here’s Mark Judge on the Obamas and the Bushes
Adam L Silverman
@eemom: Separation of powers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: When I was in the army, the answer was yes if we were in the field. As it happens, it is predicted for Madison tomorrow.
Chetan Murthy
@Chetan Murthy: Crrrap. s/goymin/goyim/
Adam L Silverman
@Litlebritdifrnt: I fixed it. My fault, I just copied and pasted from my comment and without the edit comment function, these mistakes stand. I didn’t proof it after I copied and pasted. I’ve fixed it.
TriassicSands
@Litlebritdifrnt:
You do realize that that is what the [sic] is pointing out, don’t you?
Cheryl Rofer
@Adam L Silverman: Yeah, that’s what I posted, except you’ve posted the tweet with the screenshot.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chetan Murthy: Yom Kippur might not the be the best date for that.
Chetan Murthy
@sharl: THANK YOU.
Donated. Done, done, and done. She’s taking one for ALL OF US. The LEAST we can do is ensure she’s well-protected.
TriassicSands
@Adam L Silverman:
Adam, mistakes are not acceptable. Especially, since we can’t edit our own mistakes. Is that a ploy on the part of the front pagers to maintain superiority?
Seriously, that’s why everyone needs a second set of eyes to check what we’ve written…sometimes it’s possible to stare right through a typo and never see it.
Adam L Silverman
@Cheryl Rofer: I know, I was trying to help by posting the screenshot.
Mai Naem mobile
I get that Suzie Q Collins is a worthless supposedly moderate POS but what of the other GOP female senators and not just Murkowski….. Joni ‘Breadbag’ Ernst, Deb Fischer, Shelly Moore Capito and Cindy Hyde Smith. I think Ernst is running for reelection this year. They need to be asked if its appropriate for Dr. Blasey to be treated in this manner.
Everytime I don’t think the GOP can’t go lower they manage to. This is such a despicable way of treating Dr Blasey. I just wonder if the same thing had happened to these male senators that they would be okay with this kind of treatment.
VincentN
@eemom: Separation of powers? Political question doctrine? Standing? Lots of ways for courts to dodge this issue if they wanted to.
Adam L Silverman
@TriassicSands: Believe me, I want the edit function back as much as you do. I’m the one that goes in and fixes when there’s a formatting problem in the comments and to do it now I have to go to the dashboard, go to comments, type in the name of the commenter and then wait for that to return and then go looking. And that’s provided the dashboard site is functioning properly.
Adam L Silverman
@Mai Naem mobile: Ernst is not up for reelection till 2020.
Mnemosyne
I’m still trying to figure out why someone who admits to being a blackout drunk in high school is supposed to be given the benefit of the doubt when he says he doesn’t remember doing something while drinking that another person vividly remembers happening.
Chetan Murthy
I saw the end of _Magnum Force_ tonight in a bar. And thought of a new political slogan:
“A man has got to know his limitations — elect women!”
TriassicSands
@Adam L Silverman:
I believe you. I can’t count the number of times I’ve hit “enter” for a comment (especially at the NY Times, which has a terrible commenting system) and then when the comment is fixed, one glance reveals something wrong. The key is to slow down, but even that can’t help the kind of mental blindness that causes us to see what we wanted to type and not what we actually typed.
Here’s to the quick return of “Edit” (wherever it may be).
Another Scott
@Mnemosyne: It’s such a mystery!!1
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
lollipopguild
@Mnemosyne: You’re being logical.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Mnemosyne: No kidding! It’s ridiculous.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
You know why he’s given a pass….
But the reality might be that he was a blackout drunk because of the things he was doing. IOW, take his conscience out of the equation and he’s fine doing all sorts of things, first – because he’s fine with it and second – he has an excuse, he’s a blackout drunk. Thing is, even with a blackout drunk, there is a period before the blackout that he’s still knowing what he’s doing. And who’s saying he’s a blackout drunk and doesn’t know – him? A great excuse for someone not old enough to drink. (Not that that has stopped any number of people from underage drinking or doing stuff they wouldn’t normally do, like driving with one eye closed so you don’t see two lines in the road. Yes a guy I was in the navy with told me he did that all the time. I stayed on the ship, seemed safer.)
Adam L Silverman
@TriassicSands: I know it is on Alain’s list.
Adam L Silverman
eemom
@Adam L Silverman:
@VincentN:
Yeah, I get all that, and I mentioned that standing would be an obstacle. Of course there are all kinds of ways courts could “dodge the issue if they wanted to”. My point is that all you need right now is a single federal judge who does NOT want to dodge it, and an appeals court that might be likewise inclined. Dr. Ford lives in California and the Ninth Circuit.
The first rule of lawyering is that there is NOTHING that can’t be tried, when there’s a will and a way.
TriassicSands
@Mnemosyne:
And for which she sought counseling. Not a lot of people, i’m guessing, seek counseling for something that never happened. Memories are notoriously imperfect, but inventing something in order to go to counseling seems like a stretch.
eemom
Anyway, I certainly hope that younger and more energetic legal minds than mine are furiously researching the issue as we type…..
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne:
Three reasons (not being normative here, just descriptive).
Affluent.
White.
Guy.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@TriassicSands: and she decided on her crazy scheme five years ago, to take down Bret Kavanagh if he ever got nominated to the USSC
Seems more than plausible that Kavanagh and Judge egged each other on, through a case of beer and then in the attack
TriassicSands
@Adam L Silverman:
I feel sorry for Alain. He has a thankless job, for which I thank him. When everything works, it’s yawns all around. When there are problems, it’s “When will that be fixed?”
TriassicSands
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh, Jim, you just don’t understand how deep the Deep State is. It’s bottomless. And topless. And sideless. And totally senseless.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: anything that would subject a person to blackmail should trigger a more in-depth review. I’m going to bet he basically got a pass on most of his check due to his connections and background. How things are supposed to work and how they actually work are usually very different, especially for people of “privilege”.
sukabi
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: 5 years? Your math is off she involved her therapist in 2012.
OGLiberal
Susan Collins can suck a lemon and all those white female “moderates/soccer moms” who vote GOP because a) their husbands said so b) unborn fetuses, c) Clinton’s a bitch or d) tax cuts can go suck Susan’s used lemons. Probably happened to you as well, right? But, hey, boys will be boys, like your husband. She was asking for it, right?
In the present, I think GOP women voters are much less motivated by a and b and more motivated by c and d with a heavy side of racism.
I don’t excuse the dudes,,,just hold them to much lower standards.
Chetan Murthy
Maybe something else we can all do? Over at LG&M somebody asked if “threatening a witness before she testifies to Congress become a federal issue?” Someone else answered:
I know whom I’m calling and writing tomorrow.
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: It usually does.
Raven Onthill
Looks to me like the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans want to lock Prof. Blasey in a room with Kavanaugh again.
Fk that.
And I hope Kamala Harris rakes Kavanaugh over the coals.
Raven Onthill
@sharl: The GoFundMe just made $50,000 a few minutes ago.
Chetan Murthy
@Raven Onthill: It’s not enough (maybe it’s enough $$ — that’s not what I mean) but it’s a start.
I know there are 12,800 children being tortured, some of them being raped, right now in ICE jails. It sickens me. But at least, this is something not-sickening, that we Americans can stand up and try to help like this. Not enough, but a small, small start.
I have a relative, a child, who mentioned this whole fiasco to me — she saw it in the news. I’m ashamed before.
sharl
@sharl: Update on the GoFundMe to pay for security for Dr. Blasey*:
Lots of folks are pissed!
*A bit more on this GoFundMe, from the person organizing it (via this twitter thread): She did NOT contact Dr. Blasey in advance, wishing to not add to Blasey’s worries at this time; if Blasey wants to turn down the funding, she can certainly do so. She HAS reached out to Blasey’s lawyer; don’t know if she’s heard back as of yet.
Suzanne
@Mnemosyne:
Because penis.
Suzanne
Ergh. In moderation, for naming the Toad-from-Mario-Kart organ. Derp.
catbirdman
@sharl: I contributed $23 — it’s a couple grand over its goal already!
Adam L Silverman
@Suzanne: It’s free. So to speak…
Chetan Murthy
@Suzanne: On LG&M someone noted that the German for that is “Pilzkopf”. I think “Colonel PIlzkopf” has a certain ring to it. Just as “Predisent Yeti Pubes” does.
Raven Onthill
@sharl: A lot of women are pissed. This may just cost the GOP the Senate.
We may hope.
Raven Onthill
And, meantime, Lindsey Graham is saying that if Dr. Blasey does not testify they’ll hold the confirmation vote next Wednesday. Whatever Kavenaugh does, they’re going to try make her feel part of the blame for.
Who are these men?
tokyokie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My God, she’s even more dastardly and cunning than those pesky Kenyans who placed the fake birth announcements in the Honolulu newspapers to pave the way for the formation of the American caliphate several decades hence.
tokyokie
@Raven Onthill:
Who are these men? Republicans.
sharl
@sharl: Update on the Dr. Blasey security GoFundMe, from its organizer Prof. Heidi Li Feldman (bolding is mine):
Where things stand over there:
_________________________
—-> cosign!
Bill Arnold
@Raven Onthill:
Would she be allowed to give an uninterrupted televised opening statement? Something resembling that could be part of it, for example. (If the Senate doesn’t allow it, she could do it in a major network news interview.)
She’s already proven to be impressively brave, so I’m assuming she’ll show and face the hostile R senators and K.
I also hope some of the flying monkeys are caught (and not just the stupid/incompetent ones), and punished somehow.
Bill Arnold
@Raven Onthill:
The anger among women has been impressive, TBH. Focused, sharp, suddenly female-zeitgeisty.
(Penis-American writing.)
Chetan Murthy
@Bill Arnold: Last time around (with Dr. Anita Hill) there was another accuser, all queued-up and ready-to-go (IIRC) in a DC hotel room, waiting to be called. She never was. They railroaded Dr. Hill. Dr. Blaisey Ford and her lawyers are undoubtedly aware of this. Without evidence and corroboration, those Grabby Old Perverts WILL railroad her. And once the vote is done, the media will move on.
If she wants to prevent that from happening, I think she *must* insist on an investigation, and proceed to try this case in the court of public opinion. Sad but true reality. At least, that’s my opinion [and IANAL, so that and $2.75 gets you a double espresso at Starbucks.]
Bill Arnold
@Raven Onthill:
The anger among women has been impressive, TBH. Focused, sharp, suddenly female-zeitgeisty.
(Pen1s-American writing.)
Bill Arnold
@Chetan Murthy:
Interesting point, thanks.
scarshapedstar
I’ve taken to calling Brett by his true name, Rapey McPerjury. Also made a Chrome filter, De-Kavanaugh, to do just that.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/de-kavanaugh/mdkmifgecpmomnocbnmnilckfmoblikn
Kathleen
@Suzanne: Also too white appendage.
Bonnie
Oh, well, now Clarence Thomas will have someone to watch porno movies with during the lunch hour. What a pair!
Chief Oshkosh
@Mnemosyne: And worse, why isn’t every single Republican Senator being asked that same question over and over?
dimmsdale
for anyone still following this thread, the GoFundMe has been reopened, the founder having gotten in touch with Prof. Blasey’s people and them having accepted the offer of protection. New goal: $100k (not much for the protection she’ll need) and currently the fund is at $55k or so.
URL is here: https://www.gofundme.com/to-cover-dr-fords-security-costs?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-153736194195-bf2bdeaf715f4791&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=body_photo&utm_campaign=upd_n
Adam, if you know, Id be curious to get an expert’s view of the kind of protection she should have. Thinking the sort of services Gavin DeBecker offers. do I have that right?
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There is no “Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.” His (or her, someday, if we’re lucky) title is Chief Justice of the United States.