Republicans opted to bring in a female lawyer to handle the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford, as well as Kavanaugh, in order to avoid what could appear as an insensitive line of questioning of a female accuser from a group of all white men.
Who wrote the questions? How often will those OLD white mail senators huddle with Ms Mitchell to advise her what they want asked? If these huddles occur will we get to hear what is said?
What I hear the GOP Senators saying is that they cannot be fair to a woman. I hope the female portion of the population pays close attention and votes accordingly on Nov 6.
Here’s an example of her work circa 2011:
She’s an experienced sex crimes prosecutor? Shouldn’t she be questioning Kavanaugh?
Democrats, who are going to do their own questioning, will have 5 minutes per senator. I hope that the prosecutor will have to go in 5-minute gulps, too, and not be allotted a solid hour (well, 55 minutes–5 minutes for each of the 11 Republicans) to grill Dr. Blasey Ford.
Nice try with the obvious and superficial attempt to improve the “optics,” fellers, but you’re still screwed either way. Fail with Kavanaugh and you look like weak failed failures and your base tends more to stay home. Put him on the bench and women concerned for their human dignity rise up. Probably shouldn’t have nominated this huge walk-in skeleton closet, but what’s done is done. Idiots.
Hey, could have been worse, it could have been Jan Brewer…
Why someone from arizona? Was this temporary senator John Kyl’s idea (he’s widely regarded as taking John McCain’s seat only long enough to get Kavanaugh approved).
Might as well bring in Sarah Palin, make it obvious to everyone the political game they are playing.
GOP Names Freakazoid Trumpian To Assassinate Witness
FIFY.
Want to know how coarse, ill-mannered, rude, and boorishly uncivil 10 or 12 Senate old white Republican guys can be? Just look at their necessity to bring in a woman outsider prosecutor to interrogate Dr. Christine Ford, why? Because as admitted by some of their fellow Republican Senators, the certainty that one or all may say something boorishly stupid or misogynist. Based on the white men Republicans outrageous performance with Anita Hill, in an identical setting, they have good reason to be frightened. Republicans held up Obama’s Supreme Court nominee over 300 days, now why the unfair rush, something wrong? Go back to regular order you ancient white Republican sewer rats to a fair and honest inquiry and have, as usual, the FBI question ALL the witnesses, get ALL the facts not question just ONE witness for an afternoon. Then man up Republicans, quit hiding behind a woman prosecutor’s skirt and, as usual, question her your cowardly selves, 10 or 12 to 1 is about your style.
Ugh, she makes multiple references to “time anchors” as the only way to verify when an alleged assault happened, to the point of discounting the victim’s assertion that one incident happened when he was a freshman in HS “before Thanksgiving”, as proof that he was not yet 15 (the cutoff for the crimes being class 2 felonies vs the much less serious class 6).
So, I expect a full-on assault on Dr. Blasey-Ford’s recollections of specific dates to bolster their “her memories were hazy” smear campaign.
Good job, you f**king hacks!
OK, they are framing it like Dr. Ford attacked virgin Kavanaugh ? Yeah, might work…
Ford should refuse to answer any questions posed by a professional interrogator. If the Republican Senators don’t have the courage to ask questions themselves, then so be it.
First of all, being interviewed by a GOP flunky is by no definition testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This is a gross abdication of responsibly by that weasel Grassley.
Secondly the Democratic senators on the committee should hire their own attorney (Avenatti?) to ask their questions in this BS dog and pony show.
They don’t need Avenatti they have Harris, Hirono, King, and Whitehouse. All have been shown to go straight to the point.
Is Kavanaugh going to subjected to questioning by this moonlighting prosecutor pretending to be a senator? Who’s going to write that line of questioning?
This game is rigged.
Just goes to show that conservatism is morally bankrupt, dirty and evil ideology.
The Senate is being turned into the US Criminal Court of conservative christian sexual predator, pedophile and rapist acquittal. Let us not forget that Kavanaugh was the leader of a christian conservative MS-13 type gang of violent sexual predators. I know that it is constitutionally legal for rapists even murderers to become Supreme Court. However, is Kavanaugh fit for Supreme Court?
Can she refuse to answer questions this christian conservative pro-rapist inquisitor? Can she only answer questions from the Democratic senators? Can Dr. Ford file a lawsuit?
Congressional Republicans … once again demonstrate that they lack the courage of their convictions by bringing in an outsider who they believe can feign objectivity on matters of sexual assault claims.