Democrats are in high apoplexy over the accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh yet again, per the Washington Post, which forgets some very important information
2020 candidates demand Kavanaugh impeachment after new allegation
Democrats called Sunday for a new investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in response to a New York Times piece that said Kavanaugh was seen sexually harassing a female student while at Yale.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro, Democratic presidential candidates, pushed for Kavanaugh’s impeachment. (snip)
“He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice,†Harris said in a tweet. “He must be impeached.†(snip)
The (New York) Times piece was adapted from the upcoming book “The Education of Brett M. Kavanaugh: An Investigation.†In it, the reporters said they had corroborated a prior claim of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, and that they found the FBI interviewed none of the potential witnesses they spoke to.
Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s, had alleged during his confirmation process that he had exposed himself to her in college. Her account had received less attention than Ford’s at the time of his confirmation. Ford had testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been ‘the talk of campus.’ Our reporting suggests that it was,†Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly wrote in the Times essay.
Then you have E.J. Dionne losing it in the opinion section
The Kavanaugh revelations: Why the Supreme Court is broken
We focus, rightly, on the damage President Trump is doing to our institutions. But the wreckage goes beyond Trump and involves the other two branches of government as well. The right wing’s determination to control the Supreme Court is undermining its legitimacy as well as confidence in the U.S. Senate’s approach to confirming nominees.
For the GOP, nothing will be allowed to derail its effort to create a generation-long conservative majority on the court. And that helps to explain why Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was railroaded through his confirmation hearings last year after what amounted to a pretend inquiry into the various charges against him.
The costs of this approach were underscored this weekend by a New York Times report that offers new corroboration for charges by Deborah Ramirez that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her when both were undergraduates at Yale. In denying the charge, Kavanaugh told the Senate that had it been true, the incident would have been “the talk of the campus.†Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly — drawing on their new book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation†— write tellingly: “Our reporting suggests that it was.â€
So, see, the whole thing was a sham! Horrible! Hollywood folks have joined the chorus for impeachment. But, see, here’s where a tiny detail derails the whole thing
NYT updates Kavanaugh ‘bombshell’ to note accuser doesn’t recall alleged assault
The New York Times suddenly made a major revision to a supposed bombshell piece late Sunday concerning a resurfaced allegation of sexual assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — hours after virtually all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates had cited the original article as a reason to impeach Kavanaugh.
The update included the significant detail that several friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the supposed sexual assault in question at all. The Times also stated for the first time that the alleged victim refused to be interviewed, and has made no comment about the episode.
The Times’ revision says: “Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
Huh. That’s rather relevant, is it not, and rather destroys any article written in support of the Times’ story, and the calls for impeachment. If Democrats want to go with this, Ramirez will have to be put on the stand under oath. Thinks she wants to do that, when she won’t even be interviewed for the book?
However, the Times’ article also conspicuously did not mention that Pogrebin and Kelly’s book found that the female student in question had denied any knowledge of the alleged episode.
“The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event,” observed Mollie Hemingway. “Seems, I don’t know, significant.”
Democrats should probably move on before they make themselves look even more stupid and just plain sore losers.
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