Category Archives: Law
Democratic Resistance
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AP reported that the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings touched off more Democratic resistance.
Democrats don’t have the votes to block Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But that didn’t stop them from putting up a rowdy, leave-nothing-on-the-table fight during four days of Senate confirmation hearings that marked a new stage in the party’s resistance to President Donald Trump.
Not Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Then the Christine Blasey Ford sexual assault allegations surfaced. And Dems insisted she had to be believed. They also denied that she had a burden of proof because “it’s a hearing not a trial.”
An angry WSJ editorial responded that, “If “J’Accuse” is the new standard of proof, then we have a long list of Democrats who should be summarily dismissed from public life.”
Anatomically Correct Memories
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Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers have memory gaps. But that’s not surprising considering their allegations are thirty-something years old. So Deborah Ramirez consulted with a lawyer for six days to clear her head. And only then was she comfortable retrieving the memory of Brett Kavanaugh’s long dong silver in her face.
Which brought to mind the child daycare hysteria cases, also from the 1980’s. (Not to say Deborah Ramirez is hysterical.) But therapists in those cases used anatomically correct dolls to coerce very young children to recover “repressed” memories of satanic ritual sex abuse.
Btw, this isn’t my first anatomically correct rodeo.
Preppy Due Process
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Christine Blasey Ford’s attorney wants Judge Brett Kavanaugh to testify first about her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in high school. Then her client will talk. No confronting his accuser there.
Professor Dershowitz was livid. He called the demand “anti-due process, anti-American.”
And Heather Wilhelm detects a whiff of anger towards white males educated in prep schools:
Oh. Well, never mind. It’s a good thing we’re dealing with an abstract mental mock-up of a “privileged” preppy white man who represents all of our pent-up resentments and issues, rather than with a serious, potentially career-destroying accusation against a real human being with a family and a job and a soul!
FBI Files
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The president ordered the release of FBI files related to the 2017 application for a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page.
So, here’s how three different news outlets played the story:
NPR – Trump Orders Declassification Of FBI Documents Sought By House Republicans
New York Post –Trump says order to release FBI files may be ‘crowning achievement’
CNN – Trump inflames war on Justice Dept. by declassifying Russia docs
Chuck Schumer’s Evil Schemes
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Chuck Schumer’s evil schemes to hold up the Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination kind of remind me of Havey Korman’s Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles. 
It seems Schumer dispatched Diane Feinstein to send the FBI a secret letter from a secret accuser of Brett Kavanaugh. And the accuser claims the judge groped her – in high school.
The FBI declined to open an investigation.
Update 9/16
The secret accuser has been named – Christine Blasey Ford. She says Kavanough locked the door and forcibly covered her mouth and tried to pull off her bathing suit.
In a statement Chuck Grassley said:
It was “disturbing” that the “uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of the committee vote.”
But Lindsey Graham says he’d be “willing to hear what she has to say.”
