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brooklynite

(94,508 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:14 AM Sep 2018

Emails Show GOP Staff Stymied Kavanaugh Accuser

Source: Political Wire

The New Yorker reports that email correspondence between Deborah Ramirez’s legal team and Republican and Democratic Senate staffers “shows that a Republican aide declined to proceed with telephone calls and instead repeatedly demanded that Ramirez produce additional evidence in written form. Only then could any conversation about her testimony proceed. The exchange culminated in a breakdown of communication between the two sides, as Republican and Democratic staffers traded accusations of stonewalling.”

Ramirez said that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, her classmate at Yale, “had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/28/emails-show-gop-staff-stymied-kavanaugh-accuser/

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SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
14. No, sexual assault and lying is why Kavanaugh is in trouble.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 04:38 PM
Sep 2018

With regard to Ramirez, it was not just that he exposed himself, but he thrust his penis in her face, forcing her to push him away, thus touching his penis in the process, which horrified and humiliated her.

We need to expose how the Republicans mistreated Kavanaugh's victims. Giggling Beavis and Butthead style over double entendres is not helping our cause.

TryLogic

(1,722 posts)
2. Event today in Denver
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:20 AM
Sep 2018

What: Believe Survivors. Block Kavanaugh
When: Friday, September 28, 2018 at 12 p.m. (local time)
Where: 721 19th Street, Suite 150 Denver, CO 80202
Note: Please wear black to stand with survivors.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
3. The process was never about finding out if Brett Kavanaugh had the qualities to sit on the .....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:22 AM
Sep 2018

.... bench @ the Supreme Court but finding a way to make sure that he will sit on the bench
and once on the bench his job will be to protect Trump from being held accountable for his
crimes.

sandensea

(21,624 posts)
4. And of course to push their increasingly fascist agenda.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:26 AM
Sep 2018

Corporations being people, people being animals and so on.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
5. And coming up soon the Supreme Court will hear Gamble v USA which is about the .....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:29 AM
Sep 2018

... the President having the power to pardon people on state charges which is a
firewall against Mueller's Trump/Russia investigation.

sandensea

(21,624 posts)
6. Amazing. Thanks for the heads up!
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:37 AM
Sep 2018

The Constitution is written in pencil as far as these cretins are concerned.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
8. "They" are playing the long game to make sure the minority (GOP) will have control over the ....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:44 AM
Sep 2018

... majority for years to come. They are building a wall to protect their illegaly installed
leader, Donald Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/

A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates

sandensea

(21,624 posts)
9. The goal is a third world-style kleptocracy, no doubt about it.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 11:19 AM
Sep 2018

Hatch always struck me as that most dangerous of totalitarians: the kind that knows how to come off as a Sunday school teacher (of sorts).

jalan48

(13,860 posts)
7. I think you are right. That's a big reason this nomination is being rushed through the Senate.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:41 AM
Sep 2018

He needs to be in place before the Mueller investigation is completed.

gabeana

(3,166 posts)
10. I linked to the email thread
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 12:41 PM
Sep 2018

Yesterday on DU and all it got was crickets and There is also overlooking what the Yale classmate on Cuomo last night said about former NBA player chris Dudley and Kavanaugh humiliating a women at a college party, the classmate from last night stated she is a republican

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211196132

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