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Of course Dr Ford did provide testimony and that is a form of evidence. But I think the point Corker was making was a lack of contemporaneous corroborating evidence.
Dr Ford has reported that she sought medical treatment related to the attack. But her attorneys have refused to release those medical records as evidence. Any medical records that are contemporaneous would be corroboration as to time and any documented details of an attack.
Actually, I’ve been a boy (I was much younger) bullied by the sons of the rich & powerful and I spoke up and my parents left me there. But they believed me. They left me there because they thought it would toughen me up; it didn’t.
In the Kavanaugh case we have absolutely no evidence of the claims. She could have gone to the police at the time. Not only did she not do so but she went back to the same parties. As did other women. She was an adult: she could have left and gone to study elsewhere; she did not. And so on.
We have the word of several people who have attested that Brett Kavanaugh was a drunkard.
We have his own testimony that he “likes beer” and drank to an extent that he “fell asleep”, and that he doesn’t recall incidents in which he became belligerent over a dice game on a booze cruise.
We have his speeches in which he testifies to “falling off the bus” after a night of drinking.
We have the testimony of his acquaintances that he was a “sloppy drunk” and that he drank to the point of blacking out.
We have the evidence in the form of his yearbook and calendars that he was a member of the “ralph club”, the president of the “Keg Club”, and a “Renate alumnus”.
We have the testimony of Dr. Ford, delivered under penalty of perjury, that he assaulted and attempted to rape her.
We have his own testimony, in which he was continuously belligerent, emotional, and evasive when asked yes-or-no questions about his proclivities, extending to the point that he was observed to nod while saying “no” to a question about whether the charges against him were true.
If you don’t think that this body of evidence disqualifies him from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States, then I don’t believe you’re qualified to be a citizen of this country.
Tell me, in all honesty, what you believe would have happened if, in the Year of Our Lord 1982, a 15-year-old female had gone to the police in North Bethesda, Maryland, and alleged that a Georgetown Prep student had attempted to rape her.
I’ll spare my laughter until after you reply.
I will wager the Dems are going to take back the House if that is what you are driving at.
In another era, the ABA’s position would have been a big deal.
Now, McConnell’s going to try to plow through, regardless of far bigger problems with this nomination. What the ABA thinks is a triviality to him.
At this point, I’d be satisfied if a few of them simply told McConnell, “hell no, I’m not giving up my weekend for this,” and went back to their home states until Monday.
It seems clear that to the GOP base, both the MAGAts and the billionaires, nailing down that fifth Supreme Court seat is more important than holding the Senate. They have different reasons for that, but it’s true for both.
By the way, Kavanaugh repeatedly referred to Mark Judge’s “affidavit under threat of perjury”. But there was no such affidavit – there was only a statement signed by Mark Judge’s lawyer. Judge would face no criminal threat if he lied in that statement.
Kavanaugh lied again. Or he’s incompetent with regards to the law. Either ought to be disqualifying, but probably won’t be.
I very much doubt your insinuation. But at the very least, it would at least have been on the record.
They certainly are all in. Much more so than one would even think would be the case ordinarily.
Paradoxically they have become more agressoive since the second and third accusations came out.
…for the last dozen pages or so: and almost everything that was discussed today, was about Christine Blasey Ford.
So when you ask the question “why did she keep attending the parties?” one has to wonder: what the fuck are you actually talking about?
So my question to you is: who is the “she” you are referring too? Because I have my suspicions you’ve conflated several different stories into a single one, but I’ll let you speak for yourself.
Yanno, at least 11% of Americans are into conspiracy theories, right? Well, I say about time they got fair representation on the Supreme Court!
I think that some of his emotions where genuine. Especially when talking about his dad, and that his life may be pretty much ruined. I thought that the sniffing was perhaps for dramatic effect. Never once saw him wipe his eyes or nose.
Wikipedia:
Congress has always decided the size of the court and has increased and decreased the number of justices since the beginning.
She could have told her parents, told a teenage girlfriend, or written of her attack in a diary or journal she would subsequently keep for 36 years.
The first two words are correct.
If the GOP had asked the FBI to investigate the day after Dr. Ford acknowledged that she wrote the letter to Sen. Feinstein, that investigation would likely be over and done with by now, eleven days later. It wouldn’t have held things up at all.
BTW the repetition of the reference to “all boys Catholic high schools” (with added “Jesuit” when referring to his own) and “all girls Catholic high schools”, including a listing thereof, began to grate on me after a while, speaking as a graduate of a (non-Jesuit) Catholic all-boys (at the time) high school myself.
I suppose in his own case it’s virtue-signaling as to how his peer group were particularly Fine and Upstanding Members of Society… and deeply conditioned into a particular POV about a particular controversy (coughRoecough). But given the recent vibe in regards to the church and the minors in its care I’m not sure you should be calling so much attention to it.
Someone on twitter pointed out that this decision is being made by a political body (the Senate) in which a majority represents 18% of the population.