Judge Brett Kavanaugh
was on a glidepath to confirmation to the United States Supreme Court unless a
bombshell revelation derailed the vote on the Senate Floor.
Democrats, moving ever further
to the left with each passing day, have found it impossible to change the
direction of the country through legislation. The Supreme Court was their stronghold,
their refuge, their last gasp and losing control of it has them in a breathless, hysterical
panic.
Six weeks ago, Senator
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) received a letter alleging sexual battery by Kavanaugh
from an accuser who wanted to remain anonymous.
DiFi sat on it. Her hope was to force
a delay in his confirmation.
Delay would mean the
confirmation vote could be put off until after the midterm election and a few
jeopardized Democratic senators in states Trump won handily would not have to
go on record as voting “no” on Kavanaugh.
The long-time Democrat
will now be remembered for one of the lowest, dirtiest tricks in modern
political history. Her actions now have
half the country believing Kavanaugh is guilty of a crime committed 36 years
ago at the tender age of 17.
We are no longer living
in America.
Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford is a clinical psychology
professor at Palo Alto University who has given donations to political causes
such as ActBlue, a non-profit that helps Democrat and Progressive candidates. She also signed on to a Physicians for Human
Rights letter in June “decrying the practice of separating children from their
parents at the border” and urging the Trump Administration to halt the
practice.
She scrubbed all her
social media accounts and public profiles before
she decided to go public.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, has donated money to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Friends Of Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/VDvolMqQrj— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) September 16, 2018
Are we supposed to ignore the fact that Judge Kavanaugh's accuser, Registered Democrat and Democrat activist, Christine Blasey Ford, scrubbed her Facebook and Twitter pages of her activism prior to accusing Judge Kavanaugh? I know @CNN will ignore it but are we supposed to?— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) September 17, 2018
The second accuser,
Deborah Ramirez, studied sociology and
psychology at Yale. She is a board
member and volunteer at Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence and a registered
Democrat.
The NY Times article on Ramirez has been almost completely re-written after being published originally. No editors notes. Nothing. https://t.co/Xe0kJ4lrQ6— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 25, 2018
One of the nation’s
leading experts on memory, Professor Elizabeth Loftus, has been an expert
witness or consultant in hundreds of cases including the McMartin
preschool molestation case, the trial of Oliver
North, the trial of the officers accused in the Rodney
King beating and litigation involving Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart,
Scooter Libby and the Duke
University Lacrosse team.
Loftus doesn't study
when people forget. She studies the opposite: when they remember things that didn't
happen or remember things that were different from the way they
really were. She studies false memories.
From her TedTalk in 2013, Loftus
said, “Most people cherish their memories, know that they represent their
identity, who they are, where they came from. And I appreciate that.
I feel that way too. But I know from my work how much fiction is
already in there. If I've learned anything from these decades of
working on these problems, it's this: just because somebody tells you
something and they say it with confidence, just because they say it
with lots of detail, just because they express emotion when they say
it, it doesn't mean that it really happened. We can't reliably
distinguish true memories from false memories.
We need independent corroboration.
Such a discovery has made me more tolerant of the everyday memory
mistakes that my friends and family members make.”
Disclosure of Dr. Ford’s
mental health history and release of her psychiatric and other mental health
records is an essential component of the evaluation of her claims.
In her letter to
Feinstein, Ford wrote, “I have received medical treatment regarding
the assault.” The circumstances under which she initially remembered the
incident and how she became aware of its alleged impact on her are unclear. The
accuser appears not to have discussed the claimed incident until she revealed
it in a “couples therapy” session approximately 30 years after it purportedly occurred.
Was Ford’s recollection
a “repressed memory” uncovered during therapy? There is a sordid history
in America of false accusations and criminal convictions in sexual abuse cases
based on “implanted” memories in vulnerable individuals.
Dr. Ford provided
“portions” of her therapist’s notes and “notes from an individual therapy
session.” She described failing to recognize the impact of the supposed event
on her until long after it supposedly occurred. “Years later, after going
through psychotherapy, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with
lasting impact on her life. I think it derailed me substantially for four or
five years,” Ford said.
In addition, she
described struggling academically and socially and spoke of an inability to
have healthy relationships with men.
If Thursday’s testimony
were a civil lawsuit with Ford as the plaintiff, her mental health records
would be discoverable. The defendant would obtain access to them because they
would be necessary to mount an effective defense. To safeguard Judge
Kavanaugh’s rights, the Senate Judiciary Committee is obligated to explore
Ford’s psychiatric history. Given Ford’s assault on Judge Kavanaugh’s reputation
and the potential damage she has inflicted on his career, the Judiciary must
examine her mental health history and gain a full understanding of its
relationship to and implications for her accusation.
False accusations have
victims too.
UPDATE: This post was
updated to include the tweet referencing the actions of the New York Times’
completely re-written original story about Kavanaugh’s latest accuser without providing
any editor’s note about the edits and changes that were made.
