Tentative Deal Reached for Kavanaugh Accuser to Testify on Thursday
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for the woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers reached a tentative agreement on Saturday for her to publicly testify on Thursday, an apparent breakthrough in halting negotiations.
After a brief call late on Saturday, the lawyers and aides to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, planned to talk again Sunday morning to continue negotiations over the conditions of the testimony, according to three people familiar with the call. Aides to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee's top Democrat, were also involved.
Negotiations could still falter over those details, which include who will question the woman, Christine Blasey Ford. But in tentatively agreeing to a Thursday hearing, Republicans made a significant concession that suggested they were working to ensure that the session occurred after several days of uncertainty.
If no final deal is made, Mr. Grassley will be left to decide on Sunday whether to move ahead with a committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination scheduled for Monday. Judge Kavanaugh, who has vehemently denied the allegations, has repeatedly expressed his desire to testify.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-blasey-ford-testify.html
As a note - the previous reports of the negotiations had indicated a Wednesday testimony and this latest status just came through as a breaking news.
(wonder if this breakthrough is related to the recent Michael Bromwich move to join her legal team)
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Saw in GD that AP has it too -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her decades ago (all times local):
7:55 p.m.
A tentative agreement has been reached for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony Thursday from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault from decades ago. That’s according to a person briefed on the matter who isn’t authorized to discuss it by name.
The person says that lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford and bipartisan representatives of the committee came to the tentative agreement Saturday. Other terms of the public hearing will be negotiated Sunday.
The tentative accord could close days of brinkmanship over whether Ford would testify.
Ford alleges Kavanaugh assaulted her at a party when they were teens. Now an appeals court judge, Kavanaugh denies the allegations. He has said he wants to testify as soon as possible to clear his name.
https://www.apnews.com/2ed7ae6ec79649918e2d6dea29cb29a7/The-Latest:-Kavanaugh,-Ford-agree-to-testify-on-Thursday
So with it on AP, it'll go everywhere now.
particularly since they withheld most of the Bush era docs from the Democrats until they dumped a huge pile the weekend before the hearing.
Apparently he was notorious enough to get a recap in the Yale newspaper a few days ago (link to this tweet from an LBN thread) -
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In today's Yale Daily News: what Brett Kavanaugh was up to back in his school days, when he belonged to a secret society known as "tit and clit". Motto: No means yes. Yes means anal.
10:09 AM - Sep 20, 2018
