An unaccountable female prosecutor coming in for a short-time job asking questions for male elected officials who would have to deal w/ the consequences of questions in what is not a trial of Ford but sure looks like a cross-examination of Ford is, if nothing else, discomforting.
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Meanwhile, Graham is continuing on the warrant-requirement "particularity" path he previewed he'd be employing at the hearing. That is not, of course, what this hearing about, but Graham doesn't seem to care.https://twitter.com/nidhiprakash/status/1045360139417587713 …
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This is an important note. Also recall the way that Kavanaugh’s statements distinguishing what he said previously versus now regarding his confirmation hearings were defended vociferously as “immaterial” distinctions.https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1045334394217660416?s=21 …
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The afternoon part of the hearing has begun —>https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1045367181305761793 …
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Mitchell is going back to how the polygraph is being paid for, prompting her lawyers to interject that they paid for it. Mitchell continues, asking if she'd later be passed on the cost, prompting Ford to mention possible support from GoFundMe pages. Meanwhile, over on Breitbart:pic.twitter.com/xtRC2jpNsL
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Katz (Ford's lawyer): You previously asked her to only answer as to what she was certain about, now you're asking her what's possible? Mitchell: "Is that an objection, counsel?" Ford, to her lawyers: "I don't understand."
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Mitchell is back to Ford's legal expenses. Bromwich, one of Ford's lawyers, steps in to note that both he and Katz, her other lawyer present, are representing her pro bono and do not expect to be paid.
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Mitchell is going down the path of "who was the person who introduced you to Kavanaugh," leading Ford to talk about Ed Whelan's looking around and naming that person and saying that she doesn't wish to name the person named by Whelan.
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Harris, California's other senator, is up.
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Ford, on PJ Smyth and Leland Ingham Keyser not recalling the night in question, "Nothing remarkable happened to them that evening."
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Remarkable that Mark Judge's brief denial statement is just being submitted into the record.
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Feinstein and Blumenthal both criticize the failure to bring those people up for testimony. Blumenthal says he objects to putting the letters in the record.
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Lindsey Graham, like Hatch, is proving why Rachel Mitchell was here today.
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Afternoon thread, covering Kavanaugh’s testimony, is here:https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1045390294915649538?s=21 …
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I wish it were true but if you heard Nina Tottenberg today she says it was the same at the Clarence Thomas hearing.
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If only.
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