The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing new allegations lodged Wednesday against Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, from a woman who claims to have directly witnessed sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh during his high school years.
In a sworn declaration provided to the committee and released on Twitter by attorney Michael Avenatti, Julie Swetnick of Washington, DC claims she observed Kavanaugh at more than ten house parties in the early 1980’s. She said at numerous parties Kavanaugh was drunk and engaging in what she called “highly inappropriate conduct,” including “fondling and grabbing of girls without their consent.”
Continue reading: Michael Avenatti says his new client has allegations against Kavanaugh
Further reading: Chuck Schumer calls on supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to withdraw
Commentary by The Secular Jurist: The fact that this new 3rd accuser and at least four other witnesses have signed sworn affidavits is extremely significant because it means they could be prosecuted for perjury if proven false, and it could be admissible as evidence in criminal or impeachment proceedings against Kavanaugh. Witnesses who are either lying or uncertain of their accusations would be very reluctant to leave themselves so legally exposed. Therefore, these signed declarations give credence to the veracity of their assertions.
I wasn’t aware of the weight behind the sworn affidavits. Yet, Mitchy boy, Orrin Yeller, and Greasy Grassley are gonna “forge on ahead!” A-holes!
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LMAO!!! Mitchy boy is trying to quickly ram Kavanaugh’s confirmation through because he privately fears the vote count is reportedly getting shaky. Jeff Flake, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appears to be wavering and if he wasn’t Mitchy would’ve held the committee vote already. He hasn’t yet apparently because Flake wanted to hear Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony first.
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I’m SO glad Avenatti is involved. If only two Dems had his balls and gusto, it would be great! If he runs, I’m thinking more and more that I’ll support him.
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Yes, we haven’t seen any leader from the Left with so much moxie in a very, very long time. It’s refreshing, to say the least.
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I’m involved in a discussion on another blog about this very thing. As far as that blogger is concerned, it’s devious Liberal tactics to prevent Kavanaugh from the appointment. 😦
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Obviously. Of course, the allegations made against Al Franken were true, though, because he’s a democrat. Any way, you know how it is. Boy’s will be boys, so I don’t see why these ladies are lying like this about Judge Kavanaugh. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
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Oh sure, all these women are risking abuse, perjury charges, defamation lawsuits, and possibly even their lives just to conspire with “libruls” against Trump’s supreme court nominee. If that sounds patently absurd to you, Carmen, then congratulations – you are definitely not a rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth right-winger!
IMO, it is pointless to try to engage in any constructive dialog with such people. They don’t care about anything except pushing their political ideology and agenda. It’s a perverse win-at-all-costs mentality. I believe we on the Left should instead focus on disseminating factual information, exposing the Right’s hypocrisy and corruption, and urging all citizens to vote and get more civically engaged.
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This guy’s smart, Robert. I find it very disheartening. 😦
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So what? Just because someone is “smart” has no correlation to the veracity of their argument nor to the integrity of their motivations. It only means they are effective at debating the issue at hand. These are the skills necessary for lawyers and politicians; and, we all know that both lawyers and politicians can be extremely unscrupulous.
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I guess I have this inborn belief that intelligent people should be able to recognize foolishness when they see it; I’m 60 years old and find it almost overwhelming when it turns out that it just isn’t true. 😦
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Many awful people are very smart. They use their intelligence to further their cause and agendas. Paul Ryan and ‘lil Mitchy Boy McConnell come to mind. They’re heartless, despicable monsters, but they’re not dumb. A smart, motivated sociopath is a very dangerous thing.
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I agree, Inspired. Again, I find it very disheartening.
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It really is. What’s lacking today is empathy. It’s a decreasing quality to too many of our leaders and citizens. Everywhere.
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I see this a lot. Intelligent or otherwise intelligent sounding people saying dumb things. It’s unbelievable
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Unfortunately, Carmen, this is the real world we live in.
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History is full of intelligent men and women who have written in support of the vilest things done to others.
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I hope someone out there is watching trump’s press conference. It is a full display of insanity gone wild!
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Mary, my daughter will be contacting me shortly, then! She has the TV on and we aren’t watchers. .
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It was a show the likes of which I’ve never seen
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I’ve had 3 people text me and tell me that. I’ll watch pieces of it later, because, just hearing that idiot talk, makes my blood boil.
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He rambled for 1 1/2 hours off topic, interrupting press, insulting, bragging etc. in the beginning you could see he was trying to control his temper then he went into rally mode and truly it was laughable and also scary to think this is the president. Totally insanity. CAnt wait to watch MSNBC later
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I’ll watch that too. I can handle it when Rachel Maddow and Laurence O’Donnell give me the news in tiny bits.
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Rachael is a fine reporter. She is so smart and so thoroughly checks her sources.
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Did he trash the women accusing Kavanaugh? Avenatti says they’ll sur him if he trashes his client’s name.
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He was careful about that especially Ford, but went on and on about what a fine man Kavanaugh is and a reporter asked him about his own sexual accusations and he went on a rant for about 15 min about these women just wanting money and that Avenatti is a low life and that it’s a con job by the democrats and they wink at him and laugh behind closed doors at how they fool the rest of us…
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The man is sickening.
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My husband and I watched some of it . . . all we could stand, anyway. Especially loved the part about the fact that someone would actually make that shit up about him. . .imagine. . .he’s written a BOOK!. . . oh, my.
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Yeah, poor persecuted li’l Donny and his pals. Everyone’s ALWAYS out to get them. Poor baby.
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Oh and I had heard Fox News exited out the laughing at the U.N. yesterday and sure enough, he said the laughing was fake news
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Gotta love Fox News. They show exactly what good reporting is NOT.
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I meant to write, sue him.
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I’m catching up on the highlights, err lowlights, right now.
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Interesting exchange. It’s all too disheartening for me 😦
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It’s disheartening for me too, Ros.
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