White House, Kavanaugh Deny Magazine's Account Of Sexual Misconduct By A Second Accuser
Source: Los Angeles Times
By Laura King, LA Times, 1 hr. ago.
WASHINGTON - The White House and Brett Kavanaugh issued swift denials Sunday night after an explosive new account emerged of alleged sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee when he was in college, adding greater disarray to a nomination already sullied by an earlier charge of sexual abuse.
The new allegations, reported by The New Yorker, date back to Kavanaugh's freshman year at Yale University, when a classmate named Deborah Ramirez says Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at close range at a drunken dormitory party, forcing her to bat him away.
The White House quickly distributed a vehement denial from Kavanaugh, who previously had flatly denied allegations by a California professor that he sexually abused her when they were both in high school in Maryland.
"This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and simple," the federal appeals court judge said in a statement, adding that he intended to defend himself at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday...More...
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White House spokeswoman, Kerri Kupec, called the latest allegation a Democratic-inspired effort to "tear down a good man" and said the White House "stands firmly" behind Kavanaugh's nomination.
The latest controversy erupted only hours after Christine Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate committee on Thursday about her claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s, when they were teenagers.
After a lengthy phone call with committee staffers, Ford's attorneys said Sunday that she would testify to the panel ahead of Kavanaugh - not after, as she had sought - to present their opposing memories of a drunken party more than three decades ago where she says she was nearly raped.
"We've made important progress," Ford's attorneys Debra S. Katz, Lisa J. Banks and Michael R. Bromwich said in a statement. All 11 Republicans on the committee are men, and they are anxious to avoid grilling a woman claiming sexual abuse on live TV in the #MeToo era. They also could use staff attorneys, rather than ask the questions themselves.
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Look at all the progress he made between high school and cowlwedge.
He went from dragging off unsuspecting people into people's bedrooms, bringing a buddy for "moral support", and an audience who can vouch for him during his bragging rights later as he tries to degrade her to schoolmates while trying to build an image as a real ####sman, to stuffing his junk into the face of someone who could have used a little more personal space, if it wasn't asking too much.
Quite the sophisticate he became, this learned legal scholar. No wonder the Republicans throw themselves at his feet and grovel, ready to slit their own throats, if necessary, to get him on the Supreme Court.
Chief Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Was a Lame-Duck Appointment
FEBRUARY 26, 2016 / JOHNFEA
Over at the blog of Oxford University Press, historian R.B. Bernstein reminds us that John Marshall, the man who many consider to be the most influential Supreme Court Justice in American history, was a so-called “lame-duck” appointment.
Here is a taste:
Those who argue that lame-duck presidents should not nominate justices to the Supreme Court have forgotten or ignored the most consequential appointment in the Court’s — and the nation’s — history: President John Adams’s 1801 appointment of John Marshall as the nation’s fourth Chief Justice.
The vacancy in the Chief Justiceship did not arise until after the 1800 presidential election, in which Adams lost his bid for a second term, and the disputed tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr persisted into 1801. Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, whom Adams had sent to France to negotiate a treaty to bring an end to the 1798-1800 “quasi-war” between France and the United States, sent the treaty that he had negotiated to President Adams – accompanied by his letter of resignation from the Court….
The Ellsworth resignation complicated President Adams’s life far beyond what he could have foreseen. Adams faced a multi-level crisis in American politics — how to respond to the seeming failure of all efforts to break the deadlock in the House of Representatives between Jefferson and Burr for the presidency; how to deal with the Federalist-dominated Congress’s efforts to reform the federal judiciary, both to make it more efficient and effective and to create many new judicial posts for Federalists; and whom to choose to replace Ellsworth.
More:
https://thewayofimprovement.com/2016/02/26/chief-supreme-court-justice-john-marshall-was-a-lame-duck-appointment/
getting a job judging a dog show when this is all over....
