For all the attention on Flake let’s not forget the other key actors. Here is an interesting bit about Collins’ circumstances. Voting to confirm would be very unpopular in her state but vote against might get her a primary challenge.
Unacceptable answer for scotus. He needs some old fashioned authoritarian respect for authority and I’m surprised at the leeway some would give him. You’d think he was “protected” or something.
Meanwhile the expected calculus plays out. Quinnipiac polling showing no big change in what Democrats and Republicans think but a shift in the Independents from +6 in his favor to 10 points against. Likely though those who support are more enthused than they were.
“Christine Blasey Ford ex-boyfriend says she helped friend prep for potential polygraph; Grassley sounds alarm”
Christine Blasey Ford may have committed perjury. Here’s her testimony.
Mitchell: “Have you ever had discussions with anyone, beside your attorneys, on how to take a polygraph?”
Ford: “Never”
Mitchell: “And I don’t just mean countermeasures, but I mean just any sort of tips, or anything like that.”
Ford: “No”
Mitchell: “[H]ave you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test?”
Ford: “Never”
It looks like “Go to Timmy’s for skis w/Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi” on 7/1/82 is a bust for the Dems:
"The FBI on Tuesday reportedly interviewed Tim Gaudette, a Georgetown Prep classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s who hosted a July 1, 1982 party referenced on a calendar kept by Mr. Kavanaugh.
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Ms. Ford said the incident occurred at a single-family home near the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase. Tim Gaudette lived 11 miles away in a townhouse in Rockville."
How in the actual fuck do you read the question “[H]ave you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test?” as an implication “about RECEIVING tips, NOT giving them”?!? It literally used the exact phrase “given tips or advice”.
Can someone explain to me why it matters that she had an extra door? Even if she had a tenant. The only people it matters to is planning/zoning committee. I assume if she’s caught up in this it’s not a felony, in any case. There would possibly be a fine and eviction of the tenant. Seems like it’s a moot point. It is not germane to what happened to her at age 15.
I don’t understand how it could change anything about her testimony to the Senate.
Well, she said that it was because she had PTSD-like symptoms from her alleged assault and she wanted a second escape route (or something along those lines, I don’t have the exact transcript in front of me). If it actually turns out that she was doing it so she could rent out a separate living space, that changes the accuracy of her testimony to the Senate and undermines her credibility. Of course, she’s already done that with her statement about never giving tips for polygraphs.
So, what you’re saying is that the demonstrable fact that Kavanaugh perjured himself before the Senate several dozens of times doesn’t disqualify him from being a Supreme Court justice in your opinion.
IIRC, perjury requires intent to deceive. We’ve gone over this whole memory business: that people are much more prone to remember details of events that affected them deeply at the time, but unmemorable events get lost in the fog of memory. I can remember a fair number of details around hearing the news that JFK was shot, but I’d have a hard time reconstructing similar details from last week.
So sometime between 20 and 26 years ago, Dr. Ford discussed polygraphs with someone who was going to take one.
a) It’s pretty damn easy to see how this would be lost in the fog of her memory. Sorry, no perjury.
b) We really don’t know what was said. We just have this guy’s interpretation of his recollection that Ford “explained in detail what to expect” and explained “how polygraphs work.” What that actually meant, who knows? It undoubtedly would have seemed more in-depth to someone who had only a TV-watcher’s knowledge of polygraphs than to someone who actually knew something meaningful about them.