Starting today's Kavanaugh thread with this news from @marygeorgant: "Four People Told The Senate That Christine Blasey Ford Told Them She Was Sexually Assaulted In High School" —>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-ramirez …
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Also, the calendar does show that Kavanaugh was hanging out with the guys who Ford reportedly has said she remembers being in the room/at the house. Here's July 1:pic.twitter.com/ItDQmfvNnb
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Here's what we have on the latest, the affidavit from Avanatti's client, Julie Swetnick.https://twitter.com/marygeorgant/status/1044966616121905154 …
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Careful correction from a legal-eyed reader: This is a declaration from Swetnick, not an affidavit. It is still made under penalty of perjury, but, unlike an affidavit, does not need a witness from a notary public or the like. Apologies.
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To be clear, I'm not correcting to say it makes a substantive difference in how we read and address it. I'm correcting because I tweeted something that was wrong. Note this:https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1044969549072879616 …
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Grassley's office confirms that the Judiciary Committee does have and is reviewing Swetnick's declaration.https://twitter.com/SarahMMimms/status/1044972523161604096 …
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Here's our report from
@marygeorgant on the Swetnick declaration news —> A Third Woman Has Accused Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Misconduct, And Said He Was Present When She Was Gang Rapedhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/julie-swetnick-kavanaugh …Show this thread -
Schumer: "I strongly believe Judge Kavanaugh should withdraw from consideration."pic.twitter.com/cMz4R2kuSd
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Kavanaugh's prepared testimony for Thursday: "These are last-minute smears, pure and simple." https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BK%20Written%20Testimony%20-%20Submitted%20Sept%2026.pdf …pic.twitter.com/7feLz36SlG
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Per pool, the White House sent the following statement from Judge Brett Kavanaugh, presumably in response to the Swetnick declaration: "This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don't know who this is and this never happened."
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This seems so far removed from what's going on now for the Judiciary Committee chair to be saying something like this: "Seems to me he wants to protect people who are involved pornography ..."
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And, here comes Trump — focused on Avenatti, and not Swetnick's claims.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044991766309621760 …
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Meanwhile, this seems like one of the least likely things a person could file in court and expect the court to do something with it.https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1044992581682319361 …
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Sen. Lindsey Graham has quite a statement out, attacking Michael Avenatti and saying that he "hope[s] people will be highly suspicious of this allegation" brought by Julie Swetnick.pic.twitter.com/w66DQysK6M
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Flake is on the Senate floor lambasting the "toxic" process.
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Flake says he received a death threat against him and his family as a result of calling for additional testimony from Kavanaugh and testimony from Ford. (He noted this after noting death threats faced by others in the process as well.)
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JUST IN: Case is Merkley v. Trump (1:18-cv-02226), filed in US District Court for DC. Other defendants include McConnell, Grassley, NARA, and Bill Burck (who handled the George W. Bush office part of this), as well as the Senate's Secretary and Sergeant as Arms.
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Here's the complaint, in which a US senator is asking a federal judge to order the president to "withdraw his excessive invocation of executive privilege" in a Supreme Court nomination. [First problem: Executive privilege was not technically invoked.] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4945701-Merkley-v-Trump-Complaint.html …pic.twitter.com/weqaSqhohd
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Ken on the Merkley complaint —>https://twitter.com/popehat/status/1045015052732911616?s=21 …
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White House puts out a new letter of support for Kavanaugh, signed by 60+ people who attended schools in the area and knew Kavanaugh, calling Julie Swetnick's claims "Nonsense." They add: "We never witnessed any behavior that even approaches what is described in this allegation."pic.twitter.com/dC8i8b607O
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Note: These are many of the same people who signed prior letters, not a new universe of people.
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“It’s a big fat con job,” Trump says of the accusations against Kavanaugh, repeating his line from his tweet that Democrats are laughing behind the scenes about this.
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Asked if the accusers are liars, Trump avoids at first, then says: "And these are all false to me, these are false accusations in certain cases, in certain cases — even the media agrees with that. I can only say that, what they have done to this man is incredible."
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Update: On today's 64-person letter released by the White House, 24 of the 65 signatories from the original women backers of Kavanaugh signed, 28 of the 156 signatories from the original Georgetown Prep letter signed, and 12 names (10 men and 2 women) were new.
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Trump: "I've had numerous accusations about me. I mean they made false statements about me knowing they were false. I never met them. I never met these people. And what did they do, what did they do? They took money in order to say bad things."
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