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(6,362 posts)emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)If the last hearings are any indication, he's terrified of her.
malaise
(269,004 posts)budkin
(6,703 posts)Chew his ass up!
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)forced him into a situation where he filibustered when asked if he would request a white house FBI investigation regarding the recent allegations. He would not answer.
"I'll take that as a no".
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)Let him filibuster.
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)And whether it's possible that someone who is first in his class could also committ rape.
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)The fact that he acted like a gerbil going all over the map about his school daze would mean that she would not have gotten her final nail in.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)She could close with, "What kind of judge comes up with a paranoid theory without facts?"
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)Have to go back over the testimony. I do know it was brought up rather vociferously.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)It was a thing of beauty.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?451895-106/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-testifies-sexual-assault-allegations-part-7
(starting at 11:50)
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)The witnesses (other than Dr. Ford), all say they don't remember that night. That is VERY different than saying it didn't happen. Why did everyone let Kavanaugh get away with this repeated LIE? Why didn't they say he was LYING?
Even Booker, after pointing out that Dr. Ford's friend said she believed her even though she could not remember that night, still needlessly and gratuitously added that her friend's statement "corroborates" what Kavanaugh is saying. WTF?
And why did Booker keep saying Dr. Ford spoke "her truth"? She spoke THE truth. Calling it her truth makes it sound like it is real only in her mind, like she might be imagining it.
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)so their lines of questioning also reflected their training. But also remember that a "hearing" is not a "courtroom" and the point of the (D)s' arguments was to insist on allowing further info to be obtained in order to help to validate what happened.
And the "her truth" is legal-speak for the lay observers to underscore that it would need to be resolved in a court. And as arrogant as Kavanaugh was about "Yale", Booker also graduated from Yale (as did both Clintons who he went after).
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Just repeating the same things
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)but she DID force him to concede points that her colleagues could not get him to concede (and it's all in the record).
Cha
(297,240 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)As a judge, when you hear a witness respond to a yes or no question with a rambling nonresponse, doesn't that tell you the witness is evasive?
Why do you think talking about your class rank is responsive to whether you assaulted a woman?
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Rambling wastes time though and that is what he wanted.