Agreeing to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s terms to testify against 53-year-old Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, 51-year-old Christine Blasey-Ford looks poised to accuse the former D.C. Circuit Court Judge of attempted rape back in 1982 when both attended a high school party. Blasey-Ford contends a 17-year-old drunk Georgetown Prep Academy senior attempted to rape her in the presence of his friend Mark Judge, something Judge denies. Blasey-Ford will be given a chance to tell her story Wednesday, Sept. 26 in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kavanaugh has categorically denied being at any such party or sexually assaulting anyone back in 1982 or ever. In today’s #Me-Too era, the accusation is enough to sink most careers, including that of a Supreme Court nominee. Democrats have used Blasey-Ford’s allegation to accuse the Committee of male chauvinism.
Giving Blasey-Ford a chance to testify against Kavanugh makes his confirmation chances all the more difficult, since Sen. Susan Collins (R-Main.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) are a razor’s edge away from pulling their support. If both women GOP senators pull their support, Kavanaugh’s nomination is sunk. Democrats and their media friends have all lined up against Kavanaugh and the male-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee. Fighting Kavanaugh because of his conservative views on abortion, health care, gun control, climate change and presidential power, Democrats see Blasey-Ford as their last ditch attempt to defeat Kavanaugh. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has been accused by Blasey-Ford’s legal team of “arbitrary” and “aggressive” attempts to compel their client to testify, not recognizing the trauma of a sexual assault victim.
When you consider the desperate measures needed by Democrats to sink Kavanaugh’s nomination, it’s no wonder Blasey-Fords legal team, led by Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, said Grassley’s approach to the hearing “are fundamentally inconsistent with the Committee’s promise of a fair impartial investigation into her [Blasey-Ford’s] allegations.” Backed by Democrats and reported in the press, the Senate Judiciary Committee has been accused of political bias in support of Kavanaugh. Yet the real bias is Democrats and the media’s attempt to sink Kavanaugh. “The imposition of aggressive and artificial deadlines regarding the date and the conditions of any hearing has created tremendous and unwarranted anxiety and stress of Dr. Ford,” Katz wrote to Grassley, asking for more time. Grassley told Katz he’s given her client “five extensions,” asking the witness to step forward to testify.
Blasey-Ford’s legal team sounds like they’re doing the bidding of Democrat members of Congress doing anything possible to stop Kavanaugh’s nomination. Accusing Grassley and GOP male-dominated Judiciary Committee of bias against their client, Katz and Banks have played the #Me-Two card to perfection, making the Committee look insensitive. When Katz and Banks suggest that Grassley has exacerbated Blasey-Ford’s post-traumatic stress disorder over her teenage incident, it makes you wonder about her fitness to testify. If an alleged high school incident still lingers as trauma, it makes you wonder about all of her hard work as a professional psychologist. Blasey-Ford’s attorneys are certainly playing up her trauma, lending credibility to her claims, but, more importantly, warning the Committee to not pull an Anita Hill type hearing.
When Hill faced the Judiciary Committee to stop the confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment in 1981, Grassely and Sen. Oren Hatch (R-Utah), relentlessly questioned Hill. Katz and Banks want to spare their client from a similar indignity. Grassley countered Katz and Banks’ demands saying the Committee would allow female attorneys to question Blasey-Ford. “Your cavalier treatment of a sexual assault survivor who has been doing her best to cooperate with the Committee is completely inappropriate,” wrote Katz and Banks, chastising Grassley and the Committee. Since Blasey-Ford brought the charges against Kavanaugh, it’s hardly Grassley or the Committee’s fault that she must fit in to the Judiciary Committee’s schedule, not the other way around. Grassley now fights a determined Democrat and media attack on the upcoming hearing.
Watching Katz and Banks recite all the Democrat talking points makes you wonder whether the whole thing is nothing more than a Democrat ruse to sink Kavanaugh’s nomination. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton using Gold Star Family member Khizr Khan to discredit Trump in the 2016 campaign, it looks like Blasy-Ford has become the new poster-girl against Kavanaugh. Democrats despise Kavanaugh for his conservative views on abortion, health care, gun control, environment, climate change and presidential power. When 85-year-old Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) pulled out Blasey-Ford’s secret letter Sept. 14 six days before Kavanaugh’s scheduled vote, the GOP was thrown for a loop. Since then, Democrats and the press have done everything possible to make Grassely and the GOP look bad. If Blasey-Ford gets through the hearing unscathed, Kavanaugh’s probably sunk.
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