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Sep 20 2018 02:20pm
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Its behind the statute of limitations. Like Roy Moore case.


So - Hypothetically......

BK get's the nod and is added to the SC.

6 months later - irrefutable evidence comes out that he did indeed rape this woman .

Does he get expelled?
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Sep 20 2018 02:25pm
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So - Hypothetically......

BK get's the nod and is added to the SC.

6 months later - irrefutable evidence comes out that he did indeed rape this woman .

Does he get expelled?


there's a process to remove justices, but it isn't a cake walk. AND the kicker is that for it to happen easily you'd need a guilty verdict, which you cant get even with irrefutable evidence, because it happened too long ago.

im in Black's camp, think the allegations are BS currently but understand this trial in the kangaroo court could be the only chance to figure this stuff out.
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Sep 20 2018 02:30pm
Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 20 2018 04:25pm)
there's a process to remove justices, but it isn't a cake walk. AND the kicker is that for it to happen easily you'd need a guilty verdict, which you cant get even with irrefutable evidence, because it happened too long ago.

im in Black's camp, think the allegations are BS currently but understand this trial in the kangaroo court could be the only chance to figure this stuff out.


So do you think Dr. Ford is completely making the whole incident up? Exaggerating it? Mistaken identity? Curious...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, of sexual assault told a Senate panel the professor would be willing to testify next week if it provides “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety,” an email seen on Thursday showed.

Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, has been given a Friday deadline to decide whether to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing planned for Monday, but Republican lawmakers and Ford remained locked in a high-stakes standoff over whether she will appear.

The email from Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz, was provided by a Senate aide. In it, Katz told committee staff members she would like to set up a call later on Thursday to discuss the conditions under which Ford would be prepared to testify next week.



“As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home. She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety,” Katz wrote.

“A hearing on Monday is not possible and the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event,” Katz said in the email.

Kavanaugh, the conservative federal appeals court judge nominated by Trump in July for the lifetime job as a Supreme Court justice, also has been invited to testify on Monday.

Ford has said Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982 when both were high school students in Maryland, an allegation Kavanaugh has called “completely false.”

Chuck Grassley, the committee’s Republican chairman, on Wednesday sent a letter to Ford’s lawyers giving her until 10 a.m. on Friday to submit prepared testimony if she intended to show up on Monday.

Ford’s lawyers had said on Tuesday she would testify before the committee only if the FBI first investigated her allegation. The FBI has said it is not investigating, a decision backed by Republicans.

In the new email, Katz said, “Dr. Ford has asked me to let you know that she appreciates the various options you have suggested. Her strong preference continues to be for the Senate Judiciary Committee to allow for a full investigation prior to her testimony.”


update from Ford's legal team still trying to push monday out
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Sep 20 2018 02:55pm
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So - Hypothetically......

BK get's the nod and is added to the SC.

6 months later - irrefutable evidence comes out that he did indeed rape this woman .

Does he get expelled?


the thing is that the allegation here is attempted but unsuccessful rape, not actual rape. and in a setting where the incident can quite easily be explained (not: 'excused'!) with the hormones of a 17 y/o boy running wild, or with alcohol.

so even if bullet-proof evidence for Ford's accusations came out, the accusation itself would still not nearly be enough to oust a sitting SCOTUS justice.
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Sep 20 2018 02:56pm
Quote (Beowulf @ Sep 20 2018 03:46pm)
update from Ford's legal team still trying to push monday out


Of course they are. What did you think Fienstiener was doing when she sat on this for 8 weeks?

Democrats don't give a shit about justice. This is just a tool for them to try and delay BK's appointment until midterms.
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Sep 20 2018 02:57pm
is there already an official trump cult spin addressing the notes taken about the attempted rape by her therapist back in 2012?
did she know kavanaugh would eventually become a scotus pick and set up an elaborate plan to bring him down six years ago? is the therapist also in on this? what is her motive to smear kavanaugh, what does she get from it - apart from deaththreats by deranged cultists?
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is there already an official trump cult spin addressing the notes taken about the attempted rape by her therapist back in 2012?
did she know kavanaugh would eventually become a scotus pick and set up an elaborate plan to bring him down six years ago? is the therapist also in on this? what is her motive to smear kavanaugh, what does she get from it - apart from deaththreats by deranged cultists?


Go away - adults are talking.
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Sep 20 2018 02:58pm
Quote (djman72 @ 20 Sep 2018 22:56)
Of course they are. What did you think Fienstiener was doing when she sat on this for 8 weeks?

Democrats don't give a shit about justice. This is just a tool for them to try and delay BK's appointment until midterms.


not just that, the timing might very well also be a calculated play to bring "republican" and "accused of sexual violence", and perhaps "GOP doesnt care and pushes him through nonetheless" to the forefront of the news cycle for several weeks at the height of the midterms campaign.
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Sep 20 2018 02:59pm
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 20 2018 03:58pm)
not just that, the timing might very well also be a calculated play to bring "republican" and "accused of sexual violence", and perhaps "GOP doesnt care and pushes him through nonetheless" to the forefront of the news cycle for several weeks at the height of the midterms campaign.


Yep, this all was calculated because politicians are shitty people. I have no doubts that republicans would have done the same thing if the shoe was on the other foot.

The only difference is that democrats are playing catch up right now.
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