Posted on 10/04/2018 8:09:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hundreds of female attorneys urged on Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alask) and Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) to vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
More than 350 attorneys made the request in a joint letter sent to the Republican senators, according to the Daily News-Miner.
"We are Alaskan women attorneys who work in a variety of settings, including public interest organizations, government agencies, and private practice," the letter states, the newspaper reported. "Among us are Republicans, Democrats, Nonpartisan and Undeclared voters. We ask you, as your constituents and as fellow lawyers, to vote against confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Justice of the United States Supreme Court."
The newspaper reports that the letter says this call to vote "no" on Kavanaugh stemmed from concerns about sexual misconduct allegations against him and his temperament.
"Judge Kavanaugh's conduct during his confirmation hearing fell far short of our standards as citizens and as lawyers," the attorneys add. "He displayed uncontrolled anger, sarcasm, and open contempt of Senators particularly female Senators and he made numerous unapologetically partisan statements."
A spokeswoman for Murkowski told the newspaper she was unsure if the senator had received the letter yet. She added that Murkowski would respond to it directly
Sullivan did not respond to a request for comment from the News-Miner. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
The letter comes about a week after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Ford's claims he sexually assaulted her during a high school party in the 1980s.
Kavanaugh has fiercely denied the accusation, and multiple GOP senators have said an FBI report on its probe into Kavanaugh showed there was no corroboration for Ford' claims.
But Democratic senators have criticized how the investigation was handled.
Murkowski is considered to be a significant swing vote in Kavanaugh's confirmation. She told reporters on Thursday that she is still reviewing the FBI's findings on its investigation.
The Senate is prepared to move forward with a procedural vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Friday.
You know, I am a lawyer. But lately I have come to the conclusion that Mr. Shakespeare was right: first thing we do is kill all of the lawyers. Well, maybe about 95% of them...like these female Alaskan examples. Oh, and Avenatti, and every other Leftist tool attorney out there.
” Letter sent (to both Alaska US Sens) a week after both had testified”. Hill’s milking it offering 3 week old news.
There are HUNDREDS of female attorneys in Alaska, REALLY!!!
This link to the Alaska Bar Association indicates that there are 4,000.
I did not read far enough to determine if some of the members are residents of other states but admitted to the Alaska bar.
Well, those, too.
60,000,000 Trump voters vs 350 lawyers.
This is a national position, not just Alaska.
Not in private practice..... agency drones
She met with sex victim survivors and invited them to watch the procedural vote. Would you vote yes in front of them?
Genitalia over reason.
Moose stool is just as bad as Bull stool.
There’s only two things you can do in
Alaska, in the winter. One is drinking.
According to the Alaska Bar Association, they have 4,000 members. So the dramatic “350 signatures” is less than 10% of all attorneys in Alaska. If female attorneys are 50% or about 2,000 members, then the signatures still represent less than 18% of Alaska female attorneys.
Maybe the problem is that we have too many attorneys.
AlaskaBar.org
Why does a state have so many people making so much money while not having a real job?
how could they get that many women to sign a paper unless they had planned it in advance, and the women are part of a political group that already is in place.
Or did an organzation “representing” women lawyers just put out the letter in their name?
‘Anchorage is kind of a mini-Seattle’
very mini; mini even compared to Vancouver, though it was larger than I expected when I was there last month...all in all, a pretty nice town with lousy weather...
People who always feel the need to be the last person to decide should never be voted to the Senate. If she really doesn’t know how she’s going to vote that should be grounds to swap her out. These people are unbearable
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