Blasey Ford Caves: Legal Team Shuts Down Further Investigation into Kavanaugh
And so the Brett Kavanaugh scandal has ended — not with a bang, but a whimper.
That could change, of course, if Democrats continue their crusade to remove the judge should they take the Senate after midterms.
But as far as the original accuser goes? Christine Blasey Ford is throwing in the towel.
Ford’s lawyers have told CNN that their client “absolutely does not want him (Kavanaugh) impeached if Democrats take control of Congress.”
Debra Katz, one of Ford’s attorneys, told CNN that Ford has done everything she originally sought to do.
“Professor Ford has not asked for (Democrats to continue investigating Kavanaugh.) What she did was to come forward and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and agree to cooperate with any investigation by the FBI and that’s what she sought to do here,” Katz said.
Ford was thrust into the national spotlight after she accused then-Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a party while the two were in high school. Countless accusations and investigations ultimately yielded nothing, and Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court justice on Saturday after a 50-48 Senate vote.
Some prominent Democrats, such as House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, have made no secret of Democrats’ desires to further investigate Kavanaugh should Democrats have a successful midterm.
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“If he is on the Supreme Court, and the Senate hasn’t investigated, then the House will have to,” Nadler told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “We would have to investigate any credible allegations of perjury and other things that haven’t been properly looked into before.”
Nadler’s statements fly directly in the face of Ford’s desires. Considering the accusations that Democrats willfully ignored Ford’s request for anonymity, it’s not exactly surprising that Democrats might ignore her requests again.
“She does not want (Kavanaugh) to be impeached?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Ford’s lawyers.
“No,” Katz bluntly responded.
It’s totally understandable that Ford wants this ordeal finished and tucked away. Another Ford lawyer, Lisa Banks, stressed that Ford wanted closure but had no regrets.
“I don’t think she has any regrets. I think she feels like she did the right thing,” Banks said.
“And this was what she wanted to do, which was provide this information to the committee so they could make the best decision possible. And I think she still feels that was the right thing to do, so I don’t think she has any regrets.”
Katz hinted that she wasn’t thrilled with how everything played out, but still supported Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s handling of the accusations.
“What I can speak to is when victims of sexual assault and violence go to their Congress people — when they go to their senators and they ask for their information to be confidential, I think that that’s a request that needs to be respected,” Katz said.
“Victims get to control when and how and where their allegations get made public,” she added. “Now, if we want to look at all the things that went wrong in this process, there are many. There are many issues that need to be addressed. But I think Sen. Feinstein respected the process of her constituents, and I think that was the right thing to do.”
It’s certainly up for debate whether or not Feinstein actually “respected the process of her constituents.”
But if Democrats continue the assault on Kavanaugh, they most certainly will not be respecting Ford’s request for this to end.
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