Kavanaugh Can Join Thomas.

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Ramirez’s attorney John Clune announced that his client is willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee

Savannah Guthrie asked if Ramirez will agree to testify even if there’s no FBI investigation, as she has requested. “That’s a decision I’ll certainly let her make … but it wouldn’t surprise me if she would agree to do that,” he said. “We’ll wait to see if she gets that invitation and we’ll go from there.”

Asked about the New Yorker article’s report that it took Ramirez six days of carefully assessing her memories and talking to her attorney before speaking to the magazine, something Trump mentioned on Tuesday, Clune replied: “She wanted to make sure that her recollection of what happened and what information that she was going to put forth … was accurate. So she hired Stan Garnett, who is a career prosecutor and someone who is very experienced in handling sex crimes. [He] knows how to work with victims, knows how to talk with victims in ways that are not suggesting information to make sure they can work through their recollections and come up with the information they know is accurate. That’s what they did.”

(Washington Post)

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Nervous that more damaging revelations about Kavanaugh could still emerge and prodded by Trump in private phone calls, Senate Republicans have decided to step up the pace to get Kavanaugh across the finish line. Even before Ford’s testimony, the majority scheduled a markup for 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning to advance Kavanaugh out of committee. They’re also considering the unusual step of keeping the Senate in session through the weekend so that they can run down the clock and force a vote of the full Senate next Tuesday — or possibly earlier. GOP leaders told their members during a closed-door caucus lunch yesterday that they should prepare to stay in Washington this weekend for Kavanaugh and not plan to return home to their states.

(Washington Post)

Yeah, it's obvious the Republicans give a shit about the truth.