NEW: Other people willing to come forward

[MelissaB]

NEW: “There are persons who work (or worked) for the federal judiciary who have important stories to tell about disgraced former Judge Alex Kozinski and his mentee, current Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh," a whistleblower tells @ryangrim

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Attorney Sent Letter to Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein Claiming Federal Court Employees Willing to Speak About Brett Kavanaugh

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Sanai told the committee leadership that “there are persons who work for, or who have worked for, the federal judiciary who have important stories to tell about disgraced former Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, and his mentee, current United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I know that there are people who wish to speak out but fear retaliation because I have been contacted by more than a half-dozen such persons since Judge Kozinski resigned in disgrace.”

Sanai is the California attorney who blew the whistle on Kozinski years before a series of articles in the Washington Post in December finally brought about the resignation of the former chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court over sexual harassment revelations. Sanai has long challenged the judiciary, and was deemed a “vexatious litigant” by one trial court, a ruling that was overturned on appeal.

Since Kozinski’s resignation, questions have been raised about what Kavanaugh knew or did about such behavior, given the close relationship between the two. Kavanaugh clerked for Kozinski in the 1990s, a post that led directly to his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who recommended Kavanaugh to President Donald Trump as his replacement. Kozinski and Kavanaugh remained close and both vetted prospective clerks for Kennedy.

Kozinski’s son recently clerked for Kavanaugh.

More: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/17/cyrus-sanai-federal-court-employees-attempted-to-come-forward-to-chuck-grassley-and-dianne-feinstein-neither-responded/

[Iliyah]

1. Oh my . . . .

[dlk]

2. Drip, Drip, Drip...

[eleny]

8. I hear the fire hose cranking up

[bdamomma]

22. ha, here we go.

come forward and speak the truth, you can write a book afterwards. We have a country to save.

[Claritie Pixie]

3. Alrighty then. I was hoping this would happen.

Kavanaugh didn’t suddenly stop abusing women after high school.

[Raster]

6. of course not... once an abuser, always an abuser...

...unless, of course, they admit their criminal actions and actively seek to remedy the situation, which KKKavanaugh has not.

[triron]

4. Come on!! Don't wait.

[OnDoutside]

5. Is that an iceberg in the distance ?

[magicarpet]

16. It is a torpedo racing at 2X the speed of light toward the Kavanaugh confirmation.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Well, this is different. It's about whether he knew about someone else's sexual impropriety...

not that he, Kavanaugh, did it himself.

Although, it does mean something if he knew something & it didn't bother him.

[Blue_true]

20. With the guy's apparent history on sex and power over women.

I doubt that he just knew about it in an office where he was the second most powerful person because of his relationship with the Chief Judge. My hunch is that he participated in at least some of it, or winked at it.

[lagomorph777]

26. Like Gym Jordan, silent witness (or accomplice) to assault?

[lindysalsagal]

9. A person who believes he's entitled to use women doesn't change his spots all that easily.

It betrays a definite bias for men and their own sense of entitlement. This guy's garbage. Let him work at the phone company or the mall, but not on the supremes.

[FakeNoose]

10. I think this is about the porn-jokes they emailed each other

Kozinski, Kavanaugh and others used the government email system to send each other porn-ish jokes. I'm pretty sure it was all men, but they were doing it in the office on company time. This same type of stuff happened in Pennsylvania a few years ago, and some judges and prosecutors got fired or resigned over it. Nasty and misogynist - and very adolescent.

[geardaddy]

14. "... office on company time."

and the taxpayers' dime.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Sounds like judicial incest

Did they ever look at other candidates when hiring for each other?

[George II]

12. Bring 'em on, PLEASE!!!!!

[torius]

13. He claims to not remember those emails.

Guess he was too drunk to get the jokes.

[BigmanPigman]

15. We have to keep calling to pressure the GOP senators

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both on the Judiciary Comm and the rest of them. Here is contact info...RESISTANCE WORKS!
DC Senate Directory [phone]
Judiciary Comm members' contact info
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
4 "iffy" Dem and 4 "iffy" GOP contact info
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1011&pid=2543

[lagomorph777]

27. Also Manchin & Heidtkamp

[BigmanPigman]

30. They are on the contact list as the "iffy" Dems

to call. Their local contact info is on the link as well. Bettyellen did a lot of work to put that together a week ago.

[lagomorph777]

31. My bad - thanks for that!

[BigmanPigman]

32. Thanks for contacting them...spread the word to

familiy and friends. I don't have social media so I have to rely on those who do. RESIST!

[gratuitous]

17. I hope they're organizing to come forward

A couple tomorrow, another two or three on Wednesday, followed by more on Thursday. Let's see if the Republicans have the belly for it.

[Grasswire2]

18. still no investigation of the strange money situations in his past. nt

[bdamomma]

23. the guy

has gambling problems among other things.

[Grasswire2]

25. yeah but who paid off his debts. nt

[Greywing]

19. Not to mention the lack of interest in his lying under oath

to Congress ... WTF he committed perjury, ho hum, so what.

This whole situation just makes me sick.

[tazmaniac]

21. Feinstein

had this letter & the letter from Blasey-Ford since July.......WHY didn't she do something with them? I understand her wanting to protect the privacy of B-F, but there had to have been something that could have been done.

[Demsrule86]

28. makes since politically to wait and delay the confirmation and try to wait until after midterms and

if we get the Senate Trump is done...politically smart.

[calimary]

24. Jeez...

[procon]

29. There's rarely only one victim. Men like Kavanaugh will always have a life long

trail of victims. The news is littered with the carcasses of rich, powerful, and famous men who were sexual predators that were brought down by the combined voices of the women they traumatised.