"Disturbing new evidence" in Brett Kavanaugh documentary sparks call for DOJ probe

[packman]

The surprise premiere of a documentary revealing "shocking new allegations" of sexual crimes committed decades ago by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sparked new calls on Monday for Senate and Justice Department investigations.

Doug Liman's Justice premiered Friday as a last-minute addition to the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. According to Free Speech for People, the film "includes important new details about specific allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh" and "also reveals disturbing new evidence of misconduct by Kavanaugh and his associates" surrounding the right-wing justice's 2018 Senate confirmation hearings.

This includes "evidence that Kavanaugh may have knowingly perjured himself" and that the justice's associates engaged in what his friend referred to as "a cover-up."





https://www.salon.com/2023/01/24/disturbing-new-evidence-in-brett-kavanaugh-documentary-sparks-call-for-doj-probe_partner/

[Quakerfriend]

1. I hope they make this film available on line!

He needs to go!

[Peregrine Took]

9. +1,000,000

[in2herbs]

2. Keep the pressure on and expose this corrupt USSC. nt

[Ocelot II]

3. One of the most disturbing aspects of the whole Kavanaugh matter -

apart from the sexual misconduct allegations themselves, of course - is the fact that the FBI never did an actual investigation; they just turned over all the leads they got to TFG's White House!

[gab13by13]

4. Wray is a law school acquaintance of Bofo

[Casady1]

6. My good friend

knows Ms Ramirez and was at Yale at the time. He has no doubt in his mind that kavanaugh did this. The culture at Yale was toxic. My friend is a conservative.

[Quakerfriend]

18. Very interesting!

Thanks for the inside info.

[Raster]

13. They also both belong to the Federalist Society.

[ShazzieB]

26. Who is Bofo?

I can usually figure out most of the nicknames people post here, but this one has me scratching my head.

[Ligyron]

30. Kavanaugh, I think.

Reference to consuming alcohol via the colon.

[ShazzieB]

32. Sounds like a possibility.

Bofo still seems cryptic to me, but maybe that's it.

[Ligyron]

33. Well "buffing" is the term for this practice I believe.

This came out somehow during conversations about his less than gentlemanly activities in the past.

[Hortensis]

15. We also all got to watch the Republican Party's extensive obstruction,

extensive coverup of years of documentation of this scumbag's dirty work for Republicans, and refusal to consider the evidence they didn't manage to hide that Democrats introduced during the senate confirmation hearing.

All a preview of how Republican senators would deal with the tRump impeachment trials.

[Irish_Dem]

24. We now know some of the FBI works for Putin, not for the US public.

What better way to bring down democracy than by installing criminals to high office?

[RobinA]

5. Is It A Secret

what these "new allegations" and "important details" are? If the movie has been shown, why all the weasel words? I've heard nothing substantive, maybe I'm missing it.

[Casady1]

7. It is not about

Ford. It is about Debbie Ramirez.

[Polybius]

12. When was this alleged to have happened?

Before, after, or around the same time as Ford?

[Texin]

23. It would have to have been after Ford (I think).

Unless he and his buddy were already in college, but I thought they were in high school and she was just a freshman or it happened before her first year of HS.

[ShazzieB]

28. The alleged assault of Ford took place when they were in high school.

So yes, before the incident with Ramirez at Yale.

[Bev54]

8. It would be nice if we could watch this documentary first before so we can make our

own conclusions on whether this is real evidence or more hype.

[flying_wahini]

10. Sundance is showing it now and it's looking like the right people will buy it to show publicly.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets bought so they can bury it away from the public’s eye.

[ShazzieB]

29. The filmmaker seems to really want to get this information out to the public.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be much point in making a film about it, much less showing it at Sundance, which is why we're all talking about it here.

Seem to me he'd be careful to sell the distribution rights to a legimate distributor, not someone who wants to bury it. I'm sure there are ways of ensuring that.

[boyedav1969]

11. I doubt he'd resign...

..just as much as I doubt he'd be convicted if impeached.

I'm not sure it matters how much substance there is to the claims. Maybe something leading to a conviction would make a difference?

We don't have a congress that's willing to do their job. They're not going to expand the bench, and impeachments will die in the Senate.

[Polybius]

14. Impeachments won't even form in the House

Not the McCarthy House.

[Torchlight]

16. The public pressure this could engender

might be substantive enough to affect subtle changes of narrative (the "I wanna spend more time with my family" kind).

[Effete Snob]

22. Why would that happen?

I don’t understand what the DoJ would investigate here. There is no prosecutable federal crime alleged, and any questions over his confirmation testimony would be within the impeachment jurisdiction of the House, which isn’t happening.

The entire point of the way these folks are appointed, confirmed, and potentially removed is to specifically insulate them against public pressure to do or not do anything.

He’s not going to give two shits about this movie, because I’ll let you in on a little secret - anything he did, he’s actually known about it for years. So none of it is news to him.

[Warpy]

17. There was certainly a sweetheart deal with RWNJs in the FBI

and anyone connected to the non vetting of this man needs to lose his job pronto, from Wray on down if the whole thing went that high up in the food chain. We know his nomination was rushed through without adequate time for any background check. We only suspected the FBI was in on the con.

He and Thomas are extremely vulnerable. Alito should be vulnerable to impeachment for ruling as Pope, not USSC.

And the next ruling on abortion should be predicated on both the Fourth and Thirteenth Amendments and a few tart phrases about politicians who try to practice medicine wouldn't be amiss.

[Quakerfriend]

19. I know Whitehouse has been asking for Wray to

release the FBI records re: the tip line for many, many months. The FBI turned the info. over to the Trump administration!

[Botany]

25. The FBI only got 4,500 tips on Kavanaugh

The FBI acknowledged receiving more than 4,500 tips during its background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, prompting a new wave of criticism from Senate Democrats who have long questioned the bureau's vetting process.

Though the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh by a narrow majority (50-48) three years ago, the process was defined by the emotional testimony of California university professor Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh's angry denials that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/22/brett-kavanaugh-review-sparked-4-500-tips-fbi/8057810002/

The evidence needs to be brought forward and if it is proven that that he sexually attacked women and
perjured himself he should be removed from the SCOTUS

[summer_in_TX]

35. Frank Figliuzzi explained that once an appointee has been

vetted for any federal position and confirmed by Congress, any further vetting is always funneled to the president appointing them to a new position, never to Congress.

Since Kavanaugh had been confirmed earlier to the US Circuit Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit, the vetting for his Supreme Court appointment could be controlled by McTurtle and TFG.

Clearly, that's a law that badly needs changing. The earlier appointment didn't get the publicity to generate people coming forward, unlike his appointment to SCOTUS.

Figliuzzi said Whitehouse knew all that well. He seemed frustrated that there was not more transparency about that long-standing policy.

[MichMan]

20. The DOJ needs to indict him now

Once he is facing jail time, his appointment to the SC would have to be rescinded

[housecat]

21. ASAP!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. For this thread

Link to tweet

[IbogaProject]

31. Brooke's Brothers Mob

He was a prominent face during that electoral count intimidation scheme. And he worked on the Starr BS about Mr Clinton. Just extra info about his character. Also who paid off his mortgage or his large credit card tab?

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

34. 🧤