Kavanaugh Can Join Thomas.

[Mister Agenda]

If someone accused me of attempted rape, I would be delighted for the FBI to investigate it, because I know when they got to the bottom of it, there won't be anything there. And if I was a witness to the supposed attempted rape and knew that's not what happened at all, I would be happy to testify under oath to that effect.

Indeed. So would I. First, they would need details like the year it supposedly happened and where it might have occurred. As far as we know, neither has been provided. There's nothing to investigate. It would be like you applying for a job and I told your prospective employer that you embezzled money from some company, sometime, somewhere. The most you could say is that you don't know what I was talking about.

I am certainly capable of carrying out that sort of an investigation. For instance, knowing the age of the embezzler at the time and knowing their current age, I believe I would have a good chance of narrowing down the range of years it could have occurred in. I have a brilliant deductive mind like that.

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On what do you rest that doubt?

Anyone named as involved by Ford says it never happened.

They're refusing to say it under oath....

As previously noted, no other women have come forward with accusations.

The ship of that objection seems to have sailed....

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Sen. Diane Feinstein sat on Ford’s letter since July. She didn’t care enough give it to the FBI back then. She didn’t share it with the Committee during the confirmation hearings. No. She waited to the last minute after the voluminous document requests, paid protesters, and misrepresentations of his civil rights record didn’t work.

Or to put it a thousand times more honestly, she did not disclose the information given her in confidence until the alleged victim gave her permission.

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I hear a lot of people saying things like "if it is true" but what I am not hearing is this. If the allegations are false how can he prove his innocence?

As the allegations don't have to be proven true to block his confirmation, the don't have to be proven false to permit it. It's not a court of law. If he is not confirmed, he keeps his current position. If the committee finds the accusation to be hard to believe after hearing what the FBI has determined, they are perfectly within their rights to confirm Kavanaugh. 'Beyond a reasonable doubt' is not a requirement.

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Odd that your conscience is OK with the whole guilty until proven innocent thing.

The Senate is not a court and cannot find Kavanaugh guilty (or innocent) of this crime. The worst they can do is deny him a promotion.

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This is NOT a criminal court of law; there are different standards of evidence for different courts in the United States and elsewhere throughout the (free) World.

Yep, it's a Senate thing only. Yet, you guys are acting as if the Senate should do whatever you say.

When confirming a Supreme Court nominee, the Senate Judicial Committee should always have such accusations investigated. It's one of the things the FBI is for.

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Then, answer my question -- If he admitted to Ford's accusations, would you continue to support him as a SCOTUS nominee?

Yes. Because he would have been a minor. IMO it is unethical to hold adults accountable for their entire lives because of juvenile crimes. Do you agree or not? Do you feel crimes committed when someone was a minor should punish them for the rest of their lives and prevent them from achieving as much as they possibly could as adults?

Our justice system certainly doesn't agree with you. We try minors as adults for lesser offenses all the time. If you can commit a crime that damages a person for the rest of their life, you can be held accountable for it the rest of your life, especially if you were never held accountable at the time.

This isn't trespassing or smoking weed or accumulating parking tickets or underage drinking. It's attempted rape. One of these things is not like the others.

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It seems to me, that they are investigating the matter. They have delayed a number of times to try to accommodated Dr. Ford, and to hear her out. She has made some pretty unreasonable demands. And if she doesn’t want to testify to the committee, then heir is little more to be done.

The unreasonable demand that the FBI investigate and share its findings before she testifies?