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We Didn't Call It Rape: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/kavanaugh-judge-prep-school-parties.html This was written by an alum of a DC all-girls prep school from the 80s. Written after the New Yorker article but before before Ms. Swetnick came forward. Pretty chilling/telling stuff when viewe...

But the Ds may get what they want - delay, delay, delay. The risk is that this will come back to bite them big time if they don't take the Senate, and RGB can't hang on. Not to mention the damage it is/will do to the #MeToo movement. Don't forget that Gorsuch was also a well-to-do Gtown Prep guy of...

Swetnick's story certainly has some obvious weaknesses. Like how she says that she went to a bunch of house parties where girls were incapacitated and then gang raped? If you were a girl, would you ever attend a second party like this after seeing that the first time? Swetnick's story is that she we...

Swetnick's claims are consistent with the story of Mark Judge's ex-girlfriend and as recounted in the New Yorker article. Which is that Judge told her "ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman. Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it...

"I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter..."

That carefully worded statement is pretty darn Clintonian. Maybe they teach that at Yale Law School?

Yes. She’s a government employee with multiple security clearances. Julie Swetnik. The affidavit isn't quite "sworn under penalties of perjury." But it could easily lead to that kind of sworn testimony. Making false statements could be illegal conduct that might jeopardize her security cl...

jhu72 (and ggait for that matter), you're very outspoken and seem confident re this issue... it would be interesting to hear your position re Keith Ellison, the accusations made against him, and the silent void within the Dem community in contrast to the Kavanaugh question. Ellison's time in the ba...

How would you feel if someone accused you of sexual assault/rape and there was no evidence and you did not do it. However you lost your job and livelihood over it because the media slandered you about it and believed the lying accuser? I hope that happens to you to see how you like it. He is the vi...

Put yourself in Kavanaugh's shoes. He is horrified that his life will be ruined by these false allegations. He is the true victim here. Kavanaughty is the furthest thing from a victim. I wouldn't consider any of Harriet Miers, Douglas Ginsburg, Bork or Thomas a victim either. Brett signed up for th...

Since when is it the FBI's jobs to investigate 36 yr old assault accusations? This has been the FBI's job for forever actually. The FBI does stuff like this on a daily basis. Who looked into Rob Porter's spousal abuse issues? No federal crimes involved there, but that was an FBI job. Who looked int...

Speculation has it this set of events means that Ford is going to file charges, in Maryland and is waiting until later in the week, probably Thursday. I was wondering if the Ford team was going to play this card. There's no MD statute of limitations on serious sex assault charges. So filing a compl...

Warming up in the bullpen. Rightie Amy Coney Barrett, who is actually more likely than Kavanaughty to overturn RVW.

Ruh roh. Since it can be hard-to-impossible to prove a particular he said/she said incident, the thing that most often brings the guy down is a stream of multiple similar accusations that tend to corroborate each other. Until now, Kav's has only been facing a one-off allegation. To me, the lack of o...

The GOP senators and Kav will be prepped to treat Ford nicely no matter what. She'll credibly say Kav did it; then Kav will credibly say he didn't. So how does anyone choose between the two stories? Given the three denials, this hearing seems to be a waste of time and a lost cause. Which makes me wo...

Dr. Ford says there were five people at the party -- Ford, Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, PJ Smyth, and Ford's longtime friend Leland Ingham Keyser. Judge, Smyth and now Keyser all say they have no recollection of the party. Keyser says she doesn't know Kavanaugh. All that in statements to the Judiciary Com...

Dr. Ford’s story takes a big hit. Female friend does not recall party or Kavanaugh.

Ventry was working for both Grassley and also CRC. CRC is the firm working with Whelan on the evil twin theory. CRC also reps the Fed Society. The Whelan hit was obviously an inside job.

The politics of this are pretty complicated for both sides. Either side can help or hurt themselves with their base and with centrist voters in 2018 and 2020 depending on how it shakes out. Either side could easily over-play their hand and regret it. And imagine the karma payback if (unlikely but ce...

Conservative GOP lawyers like Kav are a dime a dozen. There's a lots of Fed Society type judges that could easily have been nominated instead of Kav. If Kav goes down, there's plenty of others to be next man up. Adding Kav (former Kennedy law clerk) to the list was part of Trump's quite savvy/succes...

Whelan's dopple ganger theory is pretty interesting. Just the sort of thing that should be sent into a tip line and run down by the FBI guys doing a background check... Whelan is a card carrying member of the Federalist Society industrial complex, not some 400 pound guy sitting on his bed. So it is ...