His name does not appear in the shrink's notes who conducted the 2012 therapy session revealing the incident. Her husband is the one vouching that she said his name during the therapy session. The witness in the room calls the alleged incident preposterous. She is a Democratic flunky. Kavanaugh's mother was the judge in a foreclosure lawsuit against her parents. Her brother worked at a law firm representing Fusion GPS. The top Senate Dem sat on the allegation for weeks/months. This incident occurring is apparenlty wildly out of character for Kavanaugh as 60+ HS classmates have come forward in his defense. Despite 35 years passing, she says she's still not ready to testify just yet.
Smear job. That three NeverTrump Republicans will delay the vote for her is a sign of their true NeverTrump status.
And they will trash Kavanaugh and his family to get the message through to everyone.
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go after his character, only his politics.
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The bottom line here is that the Dems created this problem. They have worked for an activist court. A "conservative judge" always meant someone who felt restrained by the Constitution, and a "liberal judge" was someone who felt the Constitution was a "living, breathing document" that was malleable in the hands of a creative judge. You won that argument. SCOTUS is now the most poltiically effective body as far as implementing lasting changes on our society from on high. Now, you fear that this tool which worked so well for you can be used by a right-leaning court to undue judicial legislation like Roe v. Wade and such. I get why you are upset. Just realize that you aren't fooling anyone about why you are upset. I think you guys are worried about RBG, and you want future nominees to know that even "getting the Heisman" in college will be pursued and paraded in front of their kids.
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All it takes is an accusation these days. But, the good news, and the bad news, is this: If the Dems keep crying wolf about this kind of stuff for short term political gain, people will start ignoring it. That's good for the wrongly accused, but bad for victims.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The discovery of a black lab named Lucy led to the unraveling of a criminal case Monday against an Oregon man who had begun serving a 50-year prison sentence.
Joshua Horner, a plumber from the central Oregon town of Redmond, was convicted on April 12, 2017, of sexual abuse of a minor.
In the trial, the complainant testified Horner had threatened to shoot her animals if she went to the police about the alleged molestation, and said she saw him shoot her dog, killing it, to make his point.
Six months after a jury convicted Horner in a verdict that was not unanimous, he asked the Oregon Innocence Project for help. The group took up his case.
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Horner had insisted he never shot the dog. Finding the dog would show the complainant had lied under oath. But if it was alive, where was it?
[Long, multi-state search ensued...dog found...with trail leading back to owner selling it]
Deschutes County Judge Michael Adler dismissed the case.
Horner, in a statement released by the Oregon Innocence Project, thanked the group, his family, friends and Hummel.
“Kelli and I are ready to pick up the pieces of our lives,” Horner said, referring to his wife. The couple came out of the courthouse Monday holding hands and smiling.
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After Lucy was found, the complainant failed to attend a meeting in August to discuss her testimony, Hummel said. Last Wednesday, one of his investigators heard she was at a home near Redmond. When he pulled up to the driveway, she ran away.
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“To be able to establish that a person should not have been convicted, you need something objective,” Wax said in a telephone interview. “In most child sex abuse cases, there is no evidence. Finding Lucy alive showed the complainant lied under oath in her testimony.”
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Link: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/09/10/50-years-prison-sentence/
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will not have the votes to stop any good male or female jurist, conservative or not.
was getting appointed.
But railroading people pisses me off, and right now all I see points to a total railroad job by the left.
For example, “hello Washington Post tip line. You know that guy Kavanaugh who is on the SCOTUS shortlist. He tried to rape me 35 years ago. I forget where and I didn’t tell anyone until 2012. By the way you can’t use my name now, but if he’s nominated and things get tight give me a call back”. I call BS at least based on what is currently known.
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He got caught up in the Mitch McConnell/Harry Reid tug of war over appellate judge appointments.
McConnell took a big risk, because if Hills won she was appointing someone way more liberal. She wasn’t going to appoint Garland either.
My take on it was the Court lost a good judge due to a political dust up, but that Reid would have done the same thing to the R’s. Doesn’t make it right, but it’s the way it goes in the swamp.
But no one has attacked Judge Garland’s name or reputation at the last minute to keep him off the court. And yeah if that happened, I would also be pissed at it.
I've watched zero seconds of the confirmation hearings and don't really know anything about the man figuring that the partisan battle lines would be drawn which would prevent any semblance of civil discourse.
Even a referee letting the teams play has a limit. This is a clear foul, it couldn't be more obvious.
drinking and I was done with him, but none of that mattered to the party.
Now that the headline grabbing issue of attempted rape and sexual assault is getting everyone's attention focused
perhaps Kavanaugh will be fully vetted for the Court.
There are many qualified conservative jurists including Judge Hardiman, who you know, that are unlikely to have this kind of baggage.
As far as drunken teen (mis)adventures many of us have had a few and been through more with kids.
None of those produced allegations of attempted rape while holding someone down in a locked room and covering their mouth to prevent them from screaming.
In the late 80s having a few to get past Catholic guilt seemed par for the course.
Recently not so much, even at ND. Our '16 kid called the bus from St Mary's the "Sluttle" for example, and both Juniors and many/most Seniors moved off campus
to live without parietals.
allegation 35 years later against ‘16, 521 or the next Hardiman?
I don’t know about gambling or drinking except that he’s Irish. I do know that he has been through multiple FBI backgrounds and nothing about him asasulting women or harassing them has ever come up. That normally isn’t the case with sexual assaulters.
rapidly due to changes in attitude and awareness.
Neither a sober tuck and roll from a LeMans window nor quick escape crawls from Lyons,
both sober and somewhat inebriated, qualify me for violating anything other than parietals.
And I don't recall it being the "Sluttle" back then either.
I'll wait and see on Kavanaugh rather than just accept the majority shoving his nomination through.
How many times do kids get involved in hookups that aren't good fed by da demon rum?
One side expecially doesn’t like the way things went and whallah, sexual assault. Happens all the time.
Binge drinking? Gambling problem? All of these are unsubstantiated crap by floating rumors started by God knows who.
character issues. Also would welcome the release of all documents relating to the Judge prior to rushing into a vote,
which is something the committee seems hell bent on.
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None of us or our kids that I am aware of have been nominated to the SC. Had Kavanaugh never been nominated to the SC, he likely wouldn't have been accused of this either.
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to prevent a conservative from gaining a seat on the Court.
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12. Ford's therapist's notes of the incident don't match her current version of the story.
Ford says Kavanaugh pinned her down and attempted to take off her bathing suit; in the room also, she said, was his friend, Mark Judge. Ford first told this story in 2012 — about 30 years later — to her therapist during couples therapy. The therapist's notes from that session don't name Brett Kavanaugh and also report Ford said four men were in the room. Ford says the discrepancy is the fault of the therapist.
11. Ford, by her own admission, has a hazy recollection of the incident.
Despite telling The Washington Post this incident so traumatized her she's been in recovery ever since, she also admitted not recalling the incident specifically. She doesn't remember the year it happened, but believes it occurred in 1982, when she was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17. She does not recall where the incident occurred, only that it was at a house in Montgomery County, Md. She forgets whose house it was and how she got there. She forgot whether Kavanaugh and Judge were already upstairs when she went up, or if they came up after her. She also forgot how she got home that night.
10. Some of Ford's students suggest she is vengeful and is mentally unbalanced.
On RateMyProfessor, Ford's students give her generally negative reviews, with some going so far as to call her the "worst teacher" ever and that "something is wrong with her." She's also said to hold grudges against students who somehow "cross her."
"Christine ford is the worst educator I have ever experienced," one student wrote. "Avoid taking her class and avoid any interaction with this person. I feel like she has something wrong with her and I am surprised no one has caught this. Also avoid fullerton's MSW program as long as she is there."
"Prof. Ford is unprofessional, lacks appropriate filters, and I am honestly scared of her," another in a 2014 review. The student reported receiving an A in her class despite his or her displeasure with the professor. "She’s made comments both in class and in e-mails, if you cross her, you will be on her bad side. I fear to think of the poor clients that had to deal with her while she got her MSW and her LCSW. Absolutely the worst teacher I ever had."
9. Polygraph tests are so unreliable they are inadmissible in court.
Polygraph tests do not have any reliable capacity to detecting the veracity of a statement, and are therefore inadmissible in criminal proceedings (except in rare circumstances where both parties agree). Here's how the law firm Broden & Mickelsen explain polygraph tests: "The machines measure a person’s biological processes to determine if they are becoming stressed out during interrogations. Factors such as an increase in blood pressure or heart rate are measured. While these may be indicators that a person is lying, they may also simply indicate that a suspect is feeling pressurized by the interrogation even if they are telling the truth."
8. The allegation wasn't released until Kavanaugh's hearings were over.
Ford's story first surfaced in July when she sent a letter to her congressman, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.). That letter was forwarded to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in late July. For reasons Feinstein has not disclosed, she kept the letter secret until after Kavanaugh's hearings concluded, missing repeated opportunities to question Kavanaugh directly. By releasing the letter after the hearings concluded, Kavanaugh is effectively robbed of an opportunity to defend himself directly in a public forum. Feinstein has suggested she sought to simply honor Ford's request for confidentiality. Yet that doesn't explain her not bringing the matter up during the hearings, as she could have left the accuser nameless.
7. Kavanaugh has successfully passed six FBI background checks.
Brett Kavanaugh has already served in many of the highest levels of government, almost all of which required extensive FBI background checks. He passed all of these without incident. As Sen. Grassley wrote Monday, "Judge Kavanaugh has undergone six FBI full-field investigations from 1993 to 2018. No such allegation resembling the anonymous claims ever surfaced."
6. 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school have vouched for his character.
Unlike other recent #MeToo accusations, there are no similar stories from other Kavanaugh contemporaries. Indeed, it's the opposite. After Ford's anonymous allegation surfaced, a group of women who knew Kavanaugh in high school signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, collectively serving as a character witness for Kavanaugh.
"Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity. In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day."
5. The only witnesses deny her allegation.
Besides Ford, there are only two other named parties: Brett Kavanaugh himself and his friend, Mark Judge. Both have issued vehement denials. Ford, per the Washington Post, also named two others who were in attendance that night. The Washington Post said neither party responded to requests for comment.
4. The haze of alcohol.
By Ford's own telling, she was drinking the night of the incident. She says Kavanaugh was heavily intoxicated by did not indicate her own level of sobriety. Did alcohol affect her perception of the incident that night, or her memory of it? The Washington Post account does not describer her level of intoxication when the incident occurred.
3. Deleted her public social media accounts before revealing herself.
As The Washington Post reported, Ford deleted all of her public social media before she came forward, making it difficult to see the advocacy and partisanship she was engaged in the time leading up to her making her allegation public. Of course, Ford may simply value her privacy, but the act of deleting her public postings will inevitably make some wonder what she didn't want seen.
2. Ford may have an unrelated grudge against Kavanaugh, as his mother, once a circuit court judge, ruled against Ford's parents
In August 1996, Christine Blasey Ford's parents, Paula and Ralph Blasey, were foreclosed upon. Kavanaugh's mom, Martha, was then serving as a judge on the Montgomery Country Circuit Court, and she ruled against Christine Ford's parents. (Information about the case is available here.) This is more significant in the context of Ford's students reporting she harbors grudges against those who "cross her."
1. Ford is a Democrat who donates to left-wing causes, attended the anti-Trump March for Science, and previously signed an open letter challenging Trump's border policy.
Ford is a political activist who has made dozens of donations to left-wing causes. According to OpenSecrets, she has made more than 60 donations to liberal causes, with almost four dozen to the pro-abortion group, Emily's List, alone. Ford also donated to the DNC, Hillary Clinton (more than 10 times), Bernie Sanders, and the progressive organizing group ActBlue.
Ford likewise attended the anti-Trump March for Science, where she wore a hat knitted like a human brain, but inspired by the feminist "pussy hats" worn at the Women's Marches. Ford also added her name to an open letter from health professionals who argued the U.S. border policy resulting in temporary separation of some families was harmful to children's development. The letter, titled “America’s Health Professionals Appeal to Trump Administration: End Family Separation at Border Immediately,” argued:
“Thousands of medical voices from across the United States have joined forces with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to urge the Trump administration to immediately halt the separation of migrant and asylum seeking children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
“It should not be U.S. policy to traumatize children, and especially not as a form of indirect punishment of their parents. ...
“Forced separation of children and parents, especially in connection with the detention of a parent, can constitute an adverse childhood experience, which research links with disrupted neurodevelopment, resulting in social, emotional, and cognitive impairment, and even negative intergenerational effects."
Link: https://news.grabien.com/story-8-reasons-question-veracity-kavanaughs-accuser
Great, impugning another on that.
I can't wait to read what you think of the women who accused Clinton and if you believe Clinton's story.
Also, #10 had the wrong person. That's a bush-league smear attempt.
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Like many who have experienced multiple teen children, I had my share of drinking party bailouts of mine and their friends.
Never, ever, did anyone there only have one beer.
And when I was doing it back in the 70’s the girls were also as bombed as the guys.
P.S. you can’t remember how you got to the party, how you got home, where it was, or how you happened to go upstairs where Brett was, but you can remember specifically that it was only one beer. She was prolly as bombed as he was.
Or he might have crawled onto her before she had a chance to have more.
Let alone how she just happened to get up the steps to where the bedrooms and Brett where.
I mean how many times in your life are you almost killed and raped while sober?
Those things would be seared into your mind.
Again, I call BS.
The cops showed up early that night.
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The lapses in memory.
that night. So was Brett.
He prolly went further than she wanted and she told him to fuck off at some point.
Happens every weekend, every HS party in the US of A.
Hell no!!
Smoking pot ok, though.
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Cops raided it. Kids fled. Fielded some irate parent calls about their little darlings having only had one beer but losing stuff like phones when they had to unceremoniously beat feet. Told them that any pills or other drugs the cops didn’t seize got flushed, and would send the rest of the shit we found into school. Parents are so fuckin clueless.
Now we get a pretty laugh about it but not that funny at the time.
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to me. Having had 3 kids all teens at the same time does that for you. The good ole days.
So are the other classmates.
Take Moore for example, plenty of other peeps saying the same thing and he had been banned from the mall.
Sorry this one smells.
It's almost as if everyone's view on this will be colored by the zygotes. How odd.
He just has to hope that no one else comes forward. If this was a one-time thing, a drunken high school mistake (he went to one of those super-rich all-male prep schools, which tend to manufacture assholes), then he can be forgiven. If other women come forward and it turns out that he is a life-long assaulter, then he is in trouble. And so are the babies!
Said the LSU grad.
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I guess if the Dems are smart they trickle out one a week to delay the confirmation past November. No one really cares about the politics being played, so why not?
Patient man, you.
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Further, it would be embarassing for Trump to have to accept a forced withdrawal if he loses support over this, which is what Dems really want. He might not even get a new candidate in before the current Senate term expires.
She scrubbed all of her social media accounts before going public by the way.
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