{"id":32394,"date":"2018-09-19T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32394"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:36:07","slug":"wait-for-fbi-probe-whats-wrong-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32394","title":{"rendered":"Wait for FBI probe: What&#8217;s wrong with that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Christine Ford has leveled a serious accusation against Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to join the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>She intends to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but wants the FBI to conduct a thorough investigation before she talks about her allegation: that Kavanaugh assaulted her sexually when they were teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI can pull together all the evidence it needs to presumably determine whether Ford&#8217;s allegation holds up. Or it could come up empty. Or it could produce a result with no definitive answer.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is asking that the FBI do its investigation before she talks.<\/p>\n<p>If it delays Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation vote, so be it. If his confirmation &#8212; should it occur &#8212; come until after the court convenes its next judicial term, so be that, too.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation is profoundly serious. Kavanaugh has denied categorically what the accuser has alleged. He is entitled to mount a vigorous defense. Ford, too, is entitled to get a fair and complete hearing of the allegation she has leveled against a man who wants to join the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Ford has leveled a serious accusation against Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to join the U.S. Supreme Court. She intends to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but wants the FBI to conduct a thorough investigation before she talks about her allegation: that Kavanaugh assaulted her sexually when they were teenagers. The FBI can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait for FBI probe: What&#8217;s wrong with that?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7874,8016,1424,1693,4213,4235,5053],"class_list":["post-32394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-christine-ford","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-senate-judiciary-committee","tag-sexual-assault","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32395,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394\/revisions\/32395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}