In the latest ploy to stall the Kavanaugh appointment until after the midterm elections, the Democrats have arranged for Mr. Kavanuagh’s accuser, Christine Ford, to demand that the FBI investigate her claim before she will consent to provide any testimony.
This is ridiculous, of course: the FBI exists to investigate federal crimes, not decades-old recovered memories of gropings alleged to have happened at unspecified times and locations, with no witnesses beyond those accused. Moreover, the FBI is an executive-branch agency, and cannot be summoned to action at the whim of the Senate. The whole thing is a transparently political maneuver, a desperate attempt by Democrats to get their way at any cost. (If you have liberal friends who think this is a fair tactic, you should ask them what, exactly, Judge Kavanaugh would have to do to refute this accusation to their satisfaction.)
Today Mr. Grassley has responded with a letter to Ms. Ford’s lawyers. It is clear and succinct: if Ms. Ford would like to tell her story to the Judiciary Committee, she may do so on Monday — in open or closed session, as she may prefer. And that’s that.
Read the letter here.
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Grassley has bent over backwards in courtliness and generosity. It was also very bold of him, and clever, to remind Ford and her Dem lawyer what the Constitution states is the Senate’s role in the process. It is not to direct the FBI. It is that very Constitution we on the right admire and the left detests as an impediment to their power.
“The Democrats don’t care whether or not Brett Kavanaugh actually did this. They don’t care about him, his family, the accuser or her family… anybody. They’re just desperately scrabbling to maintain their grip on power. All other concerns are secondary.”
Jim Treacher.
And just a useful retort (on the offchance Whitewall, Malcolm, y’all run into any *friends who wanna expound of “Well well the FBI investigated Anita Hill’s claims!”)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission based in Washington DC was where Miss Hill’s and Mr. Thomas’ “issues” allegedly occurred.
Federal property. Voila, federal jurisdiction.
(Of course Mrs. Ford could conceivably discover her diary and find the party was in William Webster’s basement.)
Though its not been “mediaized” there was a second letter sent from Senator Grassley’s offices to …
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/scotus_ranking-member-refuses-to-disclose-secret-allegations-even-after-dr-ford-goes-public
I suspect an FBI investigation will discover that the accuser is bat shit crazy, which to the Dems will make her an even greater victim and thus we need to give in to her pathologies even more.
We’re in the realm of cult worship.