If Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser, just wants to tell her story. Why not just tell her story?
Instead there are “terms” and “negotiations”. Ordinarily people don’t negotiate Senate testimony. Or present terms. But it’s different when you have the full backing of the minority party and a few members of the majority party.
And here, allegedly, are some of those terms.
Among the terms: Only members of the committee – no lawyers – can question her; Kavanaugh cannot be in the room at the time; and Kavanaugh should be questioned first, before he has the opportunity to hear Ford’s testimony.
The committee had wanted to use lawyers to create a non-partisan feel, and to avoid the optics (that the Dems and every Hollywood producer are slavering over) of a bunch of Republican men ‘badgering’ a ‘courageous’ woman who is ‘telling her truth’.
With the inevitable “Christine Blasey Ford is all of us” corollary.
Ford obviously would prefer not to be asked questions by people who know what they’re doing. But the committee members are pretty decent at it too.
Also, she obviously would rather have Kavanaugh go first, also the strategy of someone who doesn’t have her story quite straight and is hoping to damage Kavanaugh by contradicting his account with a shifting story.
These are really political strategies, more than they are legal ones.
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