Kavanaugh accuser goes public
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REPUBLICAN WOMEN ON KAVANAUGH ASSAULT CLAIMS: 'WHAT BOY HASN'T DONE THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL?'
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-woman-kavanaugh-assault-claims-what-boy-hasnt-done-high-school-1134736
REPUBLICAN WOMEN ON KAVANAUGH ASSAULT CLAIMS: 'WHAT BOY HASN'T DONE THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL?'
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-woman-kavanaugh-assault-claims-what-boy-hasnt-done-high-school-1134736
Yale Students To Prof Who Denies Coaching Kavanaugh Clerks: You're Lying
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...lerks-youre-lying_us_5ba685dde4b069d5f9d369e6
Yale Law School professor Amy Chua strongly denied that she told students that Brett Kavanaugh, now a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, liked his female law clerks to have a certain feminine appearance, in a statement emailed to the Yale Law community on Saturday.
Kavanaugh, himself a Yale graduate, currently stands accused of sexually assaulting California professor Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers in the 1980s.
“Everything that is being said about the advice I give to students applying to Brett Kavanaugh ― or any judge ― is outrageous, 100% false, and the exact opposite of everything I have stood for and said for the last fifteen years,” Chua said.
She insisted in the statement that she always encouraged students to dress professionally, not casually, for interviews with any federal judge.
Yet a woman who recently graduated from Yale Law School and received advice from Chua on interviewing for a coveted clerkship position with Kavanaugh, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, disputed the professor’s statement.
“She’s lying,” the woman told HuffPost.
The professor specifically told her not to wear a suit when she met Kavanaugh, the woman said, requesting anonymity for fear of career reprisals.
The woman spoke with a friend the following day about other advice Chua gave her, according to a text transcript viewed by HuffPost.
Chua asked the woman if she came from a low-income or disadvantaged background, claiming this would make a good “sob story” to appeal to Kavanaugh, according to the transcript.
At his confirmation hearings earlier this month, character witnesses chosen by Republicans repeatedly praised Kavanaugh for the diversity of his law clerks over the years.
Chua had also mentioned that another woman whom she’d helped nab a clerkship with Kavanaugh had a “bossy” personality, the woman told her friend via text.
A former Yale student previously told HuffPost that the professor specifically told her to behave and dress in an “outgoing” way. Meanwhile, Chua’s husband, Yale law professor Jed Rubenfeld, advised the woman that Kavanaugh preferred female clerks with a “certain look.”
An unnamed Yale student also told The Guardian that Chua said it was “not an accident” Kavanaugh’s clerks “looked like models.” The comment echoes those given to HuffPost from three students who had drinks with Chua last year.
“I personally heard her state that it’s not an accident that all his clerks look like models,” a current Yale Law student told HuffPost on Saturday. “So I personally know that for her to say the allegations are 100 percent false is a lie, because at least that one is definitely true.”
Outside Yale, Chua is best known as the self-described “Tiger Mom” for her 2011 book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother...
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The Chua story and Blasey’s accusation against Kavanaugh has stoked outrage in the world of Ivy League law, as previously reported by HuffPost.
A growing number of students are criticizing Yale leadership for issuing a statement in support of Kavanaugh’s nomination in July and for staying silent on Blasey’s accusation.
Students at a school event on Thursday confronted faculty over HuffPost’s story and subsequent reporting from The Guardian. Particularly galling to students is the idea that Yale might have known about the sexual misconduct of one federal judge, Alex Kozinski ― a popular judge for Yale students to clerk with, as well as Kavanaugh’s mentor. He resigned last year from his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit after a wave of harassment allegations.
In Rubenfeld’s conversation with the former Yale student, the professor told her that Kozinski was a known sexual harasser, HuffPost reported.
“Students feel pretty deeply betrayed by professors being aware of allegations for years against federal judges, but continuing to funnel students to them,” third-year student Catherine McCarthy told HuffPost on Friday.
Multiple attendees said professors responded in part by pinning the responsibility for vetting judges on the students, not the professors who advise them.
Doug Kysar, deputy dean of Yale Law School, sparked criticism this week for telling students that he knew of Kozinski’s behavior since 1998, which many students took as a reference to sexual harassment. Kysar then clarified that he only meant that Kozinski “seemed like an asshole,” and was not aware of the sexual harassment until last year.
“Given what I did know, do I wish I had done more? Yes,” he said. “I always wish I had done more.”
Students hung protest signs this week on Yale’s campus. One read: “DO MORE NOW!”
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...lerks-youre-lying_us_5ba685dde4b069d5f9d369e6
Yale Law School professor Amy Chua strongly denied that she told students that Brett Kavanaugh, now a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, liked his female law clerks to have a certain feminine appearance, in a statement emailed to the Yale Law community on Saturday.
Kavanaugh, himself a Yale graduate, currently stands accused of sexually assaulting California professor Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers in the 1980s.
“Everything that is being said about the advice I give to students applying to Brett Kavanaugh ― or any judge ― is outrageous, 100% false, and the exact opposite of everything I have stood for and said for the last fifteen years,” Chua said.
She insisted in the statement that she always encouraged students to dress professionally, not casually, for interviews with any federal judge.
Yet a woman who recently graduated from Yale Law School and received advice from Chua on interviewing for a coveted clerkship position with Kavanaugh, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, disputed the professor’s statement.
“She’s lying,” the woman told HuffPost.
The professor specifically told her not to wear a suit when she met Kavanaugh, the woman said, requesting anonymity for fear of career reprisals.
The woman spoke with a friend the following day about other advice Chua gave her, according to a text transcript viewed by HuffPost.
Chua asked the woman if she came from a low-income or disadvantaged background, claiming this would make a good “sob story” to appeal to Kavanaugh, according to the transcript.
At his confirmation hearings earlier this month, character witnesses chosen by Republicans repeatedly praised Kavanaugh for the diversity of his law clerks over the years.
Chua had also mentioned that another woman whom she’d helped nab a clerkship with Kavanaugh had a “bossy” personality, the woman told her friend via text.
A former Yale student previously told HuffPost that the professor specifically told her to behave and dress in an “outgoing” way. Meanwhile, Chua’s husband, Yale law professor Jed Rubenfeld, advised the woman that Kavanaugh preferred female clerks with a “certain look.”
An unnamed Yale student also told The Guardian that Chua said it was “not an accident” Kavanaugh’s clerks “looked like models.” The comment echoes those given to HuffPost from three students who had drinks with Chua last year.
“I personally heard her state that it’s not an accident that all his clerks look like models,” a current Yale Law student told HuffPost on Saturday. “So I personally know that for her to say the allegations are 100 percent false is a lie, because at least that one is definitely true.”
Outside Yale, Chua is best known as the self-described “Tiger Mom” for her 2011 book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother...
...
The Chua story and Blasey’s accusation against Kavanaugh has stoked outrage in the world of Ivy League law, as previously reported by HuffPost.
A growing number of students are criticizing Yale leadership for issuing a statement in support of Kavanaugh’s nomination in July and for staying silent on Blasey’s accusation.
Students at a school event on Thursday confronted faculty over HuffPost’s story and subsequent reporting from The Guardian. Particularly galling to students is the idea that Yale might have known about the sexual misconduct of one federal judge, Alex Kozinski ― a popular judge for Yale students to clerk with, as well as Kavanaugh’s mentor. He resigned last year from his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit after a wave of harassment allegations.
In Rubenfeld’s conversation with the former Yale student, the professor told her that Kozinski was a known sexual harasser, HuffPost reported.
“Students feel pretty deeply betrayed by professors being aware of allegations for years against federal judges, but continuing to funnel students to them,” third-year student Catherine McCarthy told HuffPost on Friday.
Multiple attendees said professors responded in part by pinning the responsibility for vetting judges on the students, not the professors who advise them.
Doug Kysar, deputy dean of Yale Law School, sparked criticism this week for telling students that he knew of Kozinski’s behavior since 1998, which many students took as a reference to sexual harassment. Kysar then clarified that he only meant that Kozinski “seemed like an asshole,” and was not aware of the sexual harassment until last year.
“Given what I did know, do I wish I had done more? Yes,” he said. “I always wish I had done more.”
Students hung protest signs this week on Yale’s campus. One read: “DO MORE NOW!”
Unlikely she ever shows and even if she does it won't be a hearing, it'll be a grandstanding spectacle for the ages. At this point republicans deserve what they have coming to them. Cowards should be run out of town.
The republicans have not totally disgraced themselves yet but we know they are capable of it.
Many of them want to let it run long enough for it to become completely obvious that the fake accuser is just dragging things out and that they have played the "sensitivity" game long enough for those who need to see it. Then they will want to put the hammer down. If the ones who are on that track outnumber the ones who are just being played and cowed, then good. Unfortunately the few deciding votes either are not republicans or are rino's.
I have not given up on Mitch McConnel either. He did hold firm on preventing Merrick Garland from being confirmed so he gets a couple bonus points there which for me translates into "I will give them another week" to let the fake accuser exhaust her game. Then it is hammer time.
The dems are looking to run the midterms on two issues. 1)separation of kids from parents, and 2) the big bad old white guys would not listen to the fake accuser and re-victimized her. Let the dems have their fun for another week because the republicans are also building a long, long list of how they have jumped through hoops for this charlatan. Then the republicans need to put the hammer down even if they lose. It will only be worse after the election so you have to go with what you got and as tenuous and shaky as the numbers are there are still several dem senators in trump country who are worried about going trump. Force a vote on kavanaugh and make them either do the right thing or pay a price.
I can only say again though, that the notion that they have reached some agreement on her testifying is ABSURD. With gameplayers, one game begets the next game. They have agreed that she will testify if there is agreement on the terms of her testifying. Just bullshit words that equate to no agreement.
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Here I will have to agree. The appearance is that of the party in charge having a pretended interest in fair and objective appraisal of a candidate's merits, while doing what they can to minimize the risk of not attaining their preordained objective. On the other hand, it seems that the party not in charge is using whatever slim hope is available in a losing effort to derail what has been a sham procedure from the get-go. The outcome of the entire sordid affair has already been announced on National Television by Mr. McConnell before what promises to be the main event is even under way, so one wonders why bother. Why, indeed, must we pay our servants to perform an exercise in futility when the outcome has been preordained? The unfortunate Ms Ford, who may be the only party genuinely interested in truth, seems to have been caught in the middle of a farce.
Washington Post caught lying again.
END THE CHARADE! WaPo straight-up LIES in piece claiming witness Keyser ‘says she believes Ford’
https://twitchy.com/
END THE CHARADE! WaPo straight-up LIES in piece claiming witness Keyser ‘says she believes Ford’
https://twitchy.com/
and why do you believe she is the truth speaker and not the esteemed judge?
It's a setup. Don't forget that Feinstein is on the ropes, even the California Democrat Party didn't want her anymore, and she is getting FREE MEDIA with this charade.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/22/how-feinstein-is-conspiring-to-destroy-kavanaugh/
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_2018
https://nypost.com/2018/09/22/how-feinstein-is-conspiring-to-destroy-kavanaugh/
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_2018