All these years with Brett Kavanaugh’s laughter
I’m not watching the hearing live; I’ll probably watch parts of it later. Twitter is supplying commentary.
Prosecutors have good spidey-senses. Mine says Dr. Ford is telling the truth. Her demeanor, the small details, her lack of willingness to force her memory, her emotion, her sense of duty as a citizen. And I believe her when she identifies Kavanaugh as the man who assaulted her.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 27, 2018
Her having to live all these years with Brett Kavanaugh’s laughter will be seared into everyone’s memories for life. And her credibility couldn’t be greater. Who could honestly doubt her truthfulness or her memory?
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 27, 2018
This is just so hard to watch. An institutional failure of the highest order, being televised nationally. What a failure: No witnesses. No FBI investigation. A GOP Chairman who claims to be fair but HAS NOT even brought forward a WITNESS who was IN THE ROOM. #KanavaughHearings
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) September 27, 2018
As a fellow (former) prosecutor, I have a question for Ms. Mitchell: How can you as a professional person of law enforcement who knows the pain of sexual assault all too well participate in this very painful sham? You are being used and should yourself be ashamed. https://t.co/nxIH1uUUJP
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) September 27, 2018
Senator Grassley makes Montgomery Burns look like a gracious people-person.
— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) September 27, 2018
My heart goes out to her. I am among those women who have had to live with memories that won’t go away, no matter how hard I try. If Congress confirms Kavanaugh, they are rejecting not only Christine Blasey-Ford, but every woman who has gone through this. Many of their constituents are watching and hoping (some of them are praying, but I haven’t resorted to that). Confirming Kavanaugh will be telling all of us we don’t matter, our pain doesn’t matter, our life doesn’t matter. And if they do, we must rise up and speak with a voice too loud to be ignored – we must be heard. This cannot continue. It must not continue. This will require more than a t-shirt.