Yes, yes, yes, because Dr. Blasey Ford personally set the parameters of the hearing and those 5 minute intervals.
Mitchell wrapped up her questioning with a wind up about the best practices for interview trauma victims and how those interviews are usually done with a trained expert in a private setting that let’s the victim lead the conversation, instead of the five minute increments of questioning at Thursday’s hearing.
Which almost certainly contain the requirement of interviewing every possible witness. Because all sorts of corroborating or impeaching details can come out of those interviews.
This just proves that ALL Republicans are lying, treasonous, immoral scum of the Earth. Especially this joke of a “woman” who is out there shitting all over women and victims of sexual violence.
Eat shit - every last Republican sub-human in this country.
Do you believe in God?
Unbelievable.
Ms. Mitchell seemed completely surprised when Sen Grassley interrupted her five minutes into her initial questioning, and explained the five minutes on five minutes off procedure. I don’t know how a prosecutor could be effective in the frame work. Maybe I missed the “harping” part but don’t think she had much effect at all on either Ford or Kavanaugh. It was kinda weird.
Rachel Mitchell was unprepared and incompetent. She did an awful job as a “female assistant” and as christian inquisitor. She seem even for the basic 5 minutes format for questioning. Despite her incompetence, I think that the Senate Judiciary Committee should have allowed to her to complete her questioning of the accused sexual predator and rapist nominee.
This was asked by Sen Kennedy of Kavanaugh as the final closing arguments. As usual, the God argument.
What I cannot believe is the Mitchell final closing. The ringer from AZ asks Ford if this would be better as a 1:1 session instead of 5 minute bites as the Republicans demanded (Ford was excellent in her response to this), which is nonsensical. The alternative is a 1:1 FBI investigation, which Kavanaugh, Grassley, Graham, Trump refuse, yet decry the lack of evidence thereof.
(BTW, love the outburst by Kavanaugh as to how much the Dem Senator drinks)
Again, Kavanuagh’s public bias and outbursts are now the compelling reason to deny him from SCOTUS, despite these allegations.
I’m pretty certain that GOP prosecutor Rachel Mitchell moonlights as a warden in a women’s prison.
You put it all in perspective. LOL! I was stuck on the hairdo, trying to remember what decade it existed in.
“Sex crimes prosecutor.” Why does this immediately set off all kinds of alarm bells in my head? Why does someone choose to specialize in this field?
The GOP tried to change the optics, but screwed themselves in the process. They went out and got someone not familiar with the format, then had to explain it to her? That’s just poor prep for something that was supposed to be pivotal and important, but like everything around this hearing (and all other confirmation hearings under tRump), they were not prepared, then had to scramble to get it right.
That Mitchell asked almost no questions about the assault says that either 1) they were willing to stipulate it happened or 2) the idea was to try and make this look like a smear campaign, but I really believe it was 3) they were banking on her being too scared to show up and testify. They threatened, bullied and warned her to stay away, but she showed up.
One big question is how KavaHELLnaugh thought he could really defend himself if he wasn’t watching her testimony? He had talking points, which she destroyed by saying her friend called to apologize for her lawyer issuing a statement without consulting her. That was one of the statements that he kept using to defend himself. It didn’t help that his good friend didn’t think enough of him to testify, or even write a statement himself.
Got nothing else so let’s focus on the supposed “who” got her to talk, etc, etc, etc… not a word on why …
NAH! rather the compelling reason to appoint him and get him confirmed…rather REPUG of him.
Yes yes yes
but for the last 30 years and continuing, lets NOT vote for the Democrats or the Democrat Ticket UNLESS they let Ralph Nader be the supreme leader…and unless Nancy Pelosi is removed from leadership because old, corrupt, ineffectual, new blood, and lets certainly NOT appoint Howard Dean, who gave us the last majority of both houses we had because NEW BLOOD. Whew, can you imagine if Ellison had been elected DNC chair like these folks wanted?
I literally don’t care about any of that. I want Republicans to pay the price from their scum politicians to the parasites on the street. I literally want to see them destroyed and their batshit supporters suffer every possible calamity imaginable. I’m not for splitting hairs on what Dems support - I want revenge.
Oh, look! Ilsa Koch and Irma Grese had a baby!
GOP: Our gal can question your gal but our guy is too much of a snowflake to stand up to questioning from our gal so we’ll just go back to our initial plan of making five minute closing arguments for the defense.
Later: Gee, I’ve no idea why that bombed with the public. Women are so irrational.
Same topic but in WAPO:
Matthew Long, a defense attorney who once worked for Mitchell as a sex-crimes prosecutor, was quoted as calling her “the best” in a story in a local newspaper last week, before the memo was issued. On Monday, Long said he was surprised to see that she cited Ford’s gaps in memory as evidence of the weakness of her allegation.
“The things that she’s highlighting that say that Dr. Ford is not credible are the very things she has taught me to ignore and not rely on,” he said in an interview. The memo, he said, “demonstrates she’s abandoned what she knows to be true in favor of being a political operative.”
Long said that while he is still registered as a Republican, he considers himself politically unaffiliated and doesn’t plan to vote.