The bureau shamefully allowed itself to be used as a prop in political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration. Maybe it was always obvious that the whole thing was a sham. Back in 2018, when Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and others accused then supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the powerful testimony of Blasey Ford before the Senate judiciary committee briefly seemed like it might derail the nomination. This was the height of #MeToo, remember: at the time, many women were coming forward with their own stories of sexual violence, and the accounts were numerous enough and had sufficient moral authority that powerful people felt it necessary to pretend that they cared.
Republican senators wanted to confirm Kavanaugh quickly: the judge, who was then seated on the DC circuit, would provide the crucial fifth vote to overturn Roe v Wade, as well as supporting efforts to enshrine various other Republican policy agendas into law. Women, however, were causing a scene: two cornered then Arizona senator Jeff Flake in an […]
How come they’re talking about this now? Most of us knew this after the 5 days of investigating him and not talking to a ton of witnesses and finding nothing! It was always a sham investigations and we Democrats knew that from the get-go!!! Trump stinks as a person and even worse when he was president! Kavanaugh should never have been put on the highest court!