Republicans Eye Kelly Ayotte to Question Kavanaugh Accuser

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



The former New Hampshire senator would be a natural fit to take the outside counsel gig. Is she crazy enough to do it?

Lachlan Markay, Andrew Desiderio

09.24.18 10:44 AM ET

Mindful of the optics of an all-male panel grilling an alleged sexual-assault victim, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have begun narrowing their search for an outside counsel to question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser this week.

One name in particular appears to be garnering support among committee Republicans: their onetime colleague, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).

Two Republican Senate sources confirmed to The Daily Beast that Ayotte is being considered as a potential candidate to question Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high-school house party in the early 1980s. Ford is slated to recount her allegations on Thursday, pending negotiations with committee leadership on the particulars of her testimony.

A top Democratic Senate source also relayed hearing that Ayotte’s name was under consideration, though a GOP aide on the judiciary committee cautioned that the ex-senator had not been on their list as of last week. That aide said the list may have changed, that no decision had been made yet, and that numerous other women were also under consideration.


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[RhodeIslandOne]

1. Oh God

Lightweight Ayotte is a joke.

[Fred Sanders]

2. The media Speculationatron is on full tilt this week. These Eleven Angry Republicans were ready

to test into Dr. Ford last week but now that her allegations are credible...they are afraid of the optics.

Hope the good doctor sticks to her position of no on that, let the Republican Senate leader keep his promise to "plow right through this" on their own, cowards.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Dems should choose ...

Avenatti.

[Fred Sanders]

4. I go with every single thing Dr. Ford and her excellent legal team want, point by point.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. They don't need Avenatti.

They've got Feinstein, Durbin, Leahy, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, Blumenthal, Hirono, Booker and Harris. All but Feinstein are attorneys. Leahy, Whitehouse, Klobuchar and Harris have worked as prosecutors. They have way more horsepower for this sort of thing than Avenatti.

[Stallion]

5. They Have Binders of Women Whose Skirt They Could Hide Behind

I think this is a mistake too-basically admitting they aren't competent to fairly do their job

[TomCADem]

6. Kelly Ayotte Reprises The Role of Serena Joy from Handmaidens Tale

Perhaps we should refer to hearing as the “Ceremony.”

[Horizens]

7. Direct Question Only

IMHO. Dr. Ford should give a detailed opening statement and then answer only questions put forth directly by senators.
She should refuse to allow Republican senators hide behind a woman.

[Stallion]

9. Interesting

[DownriverDem]

8. Bunch of losers

Old repub white men are afraid to be seen on TV with their lack of diversity. I'm not buying it.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

10. FUCKING COWARDS!!

It's time every single Democratic Senator stood up and called them what they are. COWARDS!!

[amcgrath]

12. aunt lydia

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

13. She's a jackass and will go for blood

But she may push so hard she looks like a complete jerk.

[QC]

14. Aunt Lydia. n/t

[watoos]

15. Do it, Ayotte isn't smart enough.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. None of the republican men want to be seen grilling a rape victim

..so they push out a willing GOP woman who isn't even on the Judicial Committee to do their dirty work.