Saturday, September 29, 2018

419. Post-Hearing Wish List


I wish Christine Blasey Ford had not read "I am terrified" from a script.

I wish Brett Kavanaugh had showed everybody how courts had to look at such a case, seeing it, after all  the convincing, heart-wrenching testimony, after all the coincidence with the great cause of abused women and the tawdry cause of Trump Republicans, as still a she-said-he-said problem, even-steven until somebody could produce corroborating testimony.

I wish that Brett Kavanaugh, if he had to go into his emotional plea, would have waited until after he had ended his judicial analysis with a demonstration that there was no corroborating testimony — to the deed, not to anyone's feelings.

I wish that the prosecutor had held to the one relevant line of questioning, "Does it corroborate or give outside support in any way?"  If, for example, Ford had remembered who the driver was of the car that took her home after she had run down the stairs in distress, that person could have given support to her story  — "Yes, she was in a distressed state."

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