A congressional hearing that was billed as a seminal moment in U.S. political history has produced, um, apparently nothing.
The Senate Judiciary Committee — which heard from two people at the center of a firestorm — is going to vote Friday on whether to confirm one of those principals to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
To which I only can say: Holy cow, man!
Judge Brett Kavanaugh denied passionately the accusation leveled by Christine Blasey Ford. They both talked to the Senate committee. Ford said Kavanaugh attacked her when they were both in high school; Kavanaugh denied it.
Who’s more credible? I believe Professor Ford.
Thus, I would hope the Senate panel would delay this confirmation vote until it could gather more information.
The so-called “elephant in the hearing room” was a man who reportedly witnessed the alleged attack. That would be Mark Judge, a friend of Kavanaugh. Judge has been nowhere to be seen or heard.
I believe Judge should testify as well.
It won’t happen, apparently. The Judiciary Committee is stampeding forward — or so it appears — with a vote on whether to recommend Kavanaugh’s nomination.
This process has been called a “disgrace” and a “sham” by those who support Judge Kavanaugh. I agree with them. It has been both of those things.
The disgraceful sham, though, well might play out when the Senate Judiciary Committee rushes to judgment with its vote.
