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Grassley panel scraps Kavanaugh hearing, warns committee will vote without deal
The Hill ^ | 09/21/2018 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 09/21/2018 3:57:21 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing a high-stakes hearing set for early next week on the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The committee announced on Friday that the Monday hearing — where both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, had been invited to speak — was being called off.

Instead, Grassley said in a statement Friday that he is giving Ford’s lawyers until 10 p.m. on Friday to respond to the GOP request for her to testify on Wednesday. If they do not, or if Ford declines to testify, Grassley said the Judiciary Committee will vote Monday on Kavanaugh's nomination.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; brettkavanaugh; christineblaseyford; chuckgrassley; committee; ford; grassley; hearing; judiciary; judiciarycommittee; kavanaugh; panel; scotus; senate; supremecourt; vote
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To: mrs9x
More backbone.

I like that !


41 posted on 09/21/2018 4:22:25 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: snarkpup
For months, the Democrats have been using a tactic where a two-bit judge anywhere in the country can jump up and paralyze the administration.

It seems there was a boy once, who cried "Wolf". He could probably offer some counsel to the dems.

42 posted on 09/21/2018 4:22:33 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: SpeedyInTexas
She can take a slow train to D. C. and then testify on any day she wants to. It will just be after the vote. What's the problem.

The dems are going to vote no anyway.

43 posted on 09/21/2018 4:23:59 PM PDT by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: Mozzafiato
Re: “Hopefully the weak-kneed Flake, Corker, Collins don’t go all wobbly.”

They aren't weak-kneed.

They are closet Democrats.

44 posted on 09/21/2018 4:24:19 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Ingtar
I wonder what the dims have made up for release this weekend.

Kavanaugh in bed with 10 pre-teen children
45 posted on 09/21/2018 4:24:34 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

What is going on with this appointment and the Feinstein-Ford scam is GOING on because these liars and crooks have been
so successful in executing the Mueller Rosenstein scam with such impunity.

Even more outrages will occur over their
SECOND success with this Ford lie.


46 posted on 09/21/2018 4:25:06 PM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Saw this on another forum.

Copied and reposted: The alleged accuser’s (i.e. Demoncrat plant) timeline: You decide...

1982 - Something may or may not have happened with another 2 (or 4) teenagers at a party, she cannot remember who threw the party, where the party was held, who she was with or how she got home. She was drinking and said nothing to anyone.
1983,
1984,
1985,
1986,
1987,
1988,
1989,
1990,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002... She said nothing.
July 25, 2003: President George W. Bush nominated Kavanaugh to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit... She said nothing.
2004,
2005... She said nothing.
May 11, 2006: The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary recommended confirmation. Kavanaugh subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate... She said nothing.
June 1, 2006: Kavanaugh sworn in by Justice Anthony Kennedy... She said nothing.
2007,
2008,
2009,
2010,
2011... She said nothing.
2012... She remembered ‘something’ happened in 1982, yet doesn’t name Kavanaugh, still said nothing to authorities.
2013,
2014,
2015,
2016,
2017 - becomes an anti-trump activist.
2018 - now 36 years later, with Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation looming, she pens an anonymous letter with grave accusations against Kavanaugh regarding foggy circumstance that occurred while they were both minors, then reveals herself and DEMANDS an FBI investigation before testifying to her incredible allegations?


47 posted on 09/21/2018 4:25:10 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Godebert

She’ll agree and then not show up.


48 posted on 09/21/2018 4:25:15 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Correct me if I’m wrong, but to date there is no formal complaint.


49 posted on 09/21/2018 4:26:13 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: All

At 9:50 PM, she’s going to accept......

Then...One hour BEFORE the scheduled testimony, she’s going to have the flu and can’t make it for a week...


50 posted on 09/21/2018 4:26:17 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Alberta's Child
Accuser and her legal team and political handlers spend days demanding conditions for her testimony, and then making up excuses not to be there.

You are exactly right, for reasons that you lay out. They checked all of their traps and discovered that they are full of skunks. They will not put Ford under oath. Bad witness. All they can do now is try to use the useless redacted letter to try to convince two Republicans to flip on the the vote.

51 posted on 09/21/2018 4:26:23 PM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: kiryandil

You are correct, but I’m keeping an eye on you nonetheless.


52 posted on 09/21/2018 4:27:45 PM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: zeestephen

Collins getting apalled over Trump tweets...OMG! Vomit. Are the good ppl of Maine really this squemish???
Trump’s rally is gonna ROCK tonight!

LOL and even more after K gets the nod..LOL


53 posted on 09/21/2018 4:28:20 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Reno89519; All
Here is the actual press release of letter released by The Senate Judiciary Committee, 21 Sept. 2018.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 Judiciary Committee Continues Effort to Accommodate Testimony from Dr. Ford Next Week

Grassley ccomments on Ford's lawyers request point by point and denies all the important ones.

It's a put up or shut up and forever more hold your peace.

Read it for yourselves. I was able to download the pdf files on my droid phone but unable to copy and post thecfull text here.

54 posted on 09/21/2018 4:29:27 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
scared to fly...

She surfs, in the Pacific Ocean, yet she is scared to fly.

55 posted on 09/21/2018 4:29:49 PM PDT by keat
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To: Mozzafiato

56 posted on 09/21/2018 4:29:55 PM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: Ingtar

They already have it they have thrown RR under the bus BAITING Trump to fire him before the election, the SCREAMING will be unimaginable Trump won’t take the BAIT!!! I can wait until AFTER the election to be done with RR!!!


57 posted on 09/21/2018 4:29:56 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Missouri gal
I think the possible delay to Wednesday gives Republicans good cover. We stretched as far as we could...

It's reminiscent of the dance with Saddam and lead up to the Iraq war. Saddam was all over the map, teasing and testing our resolve, and we also then bent over backwards and stretched not just as far as we could, but a bit further as well.

58 posted on 09/21/2018 4:31:24 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: centurion316

She won’t appear. Her Democrat minders have figured out that they can’t take the risk of putting her under oath on live TV

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Yep...they need Kavanaugh to testify first to the scripted questions they have developed already with the democrat senators . Otherwise she has to stick to one particular line


59 posted on 09/21/2018 4:31:37 PM PDT by ALX
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To: Architect of Avalon

She needs to get medicated and coached.


60 posted on 09/21/2018 4:32:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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