Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley confirmed that the committee has hired an outside counsel to question Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The individual is a woman with expertise in sex crimes prosecution, an aide told CNN.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) September 25, 2018
Did they consider just having mother sit with them for the questioning? pic.twitter.com/UN6wqNcTwB
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 25, 2018
Or perhaps… pic.twitter.com/FEDEURSy1H
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 25, 2018
The Gorsuch nomination went smoothly and bumped Trump’s numbers up for a while. The Kavanaugh circus might have the same effect by going disastrously enough to deflect attention from the White House chaos and Trump’s tweets for a few weeks.
— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) September 25, 2018
Multiple things can be true at once:
1. A professional questioner is better for truth-seeking but
2. They don't care about truth-seeking and
3. They're doing it to avoid spectacle and because they can't resist being choads but
4. Result may be better truth-seeking despite them— LaughedAtHat (@Popehat) September 25, 2018
“Better truth-seeking”, sigh…
Take Note: Kavanaugh's credibility is at the crux of his confirmation to the Supreme Court – and a new Yale classmate says on the record Kavanaugh lied in his Fox interview, or to him, about when he lost his virginity.
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) September 25, 2018
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