Posted on 09/25/2018 4:46:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is rejecting a request from Democrats to delay a Thursday hearing where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify.
Grassley sent a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, saying he would "respectfully decline" her request to postpone until the White House ordered an investigation into two sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh.
"I respectfully decline your request. I am not going to silence Dr. Ford after I promised and assured her that I would provide her a safe, comfortable, and dignified opportunity to testify," Grassley wrote in the letter.
The letter was sent on Tuesday and publicly released just minutes after Grassley's office announced it had scheduled a Friday committee vote on Kavanaugh's nomination.
Grassley added in his letter to Feinstein that there was "no reason" for delay the hearing, after lawyers for Ford, Kavanaugh's accuser, agreed to the Thursday date after days of negotiations.
He added delaying a hearing would be "unfair" to Kavanaugh, who has repeatedly said he is willing to publicly testify in order to clear his name.
"He has asked the Committee repeatedly for the chance to testify as soon as possible. He has categorically denied the allegations that have been made public. ...We can no longer stand in the way of him presenting his testimony before the Committee," Grassley added.
Feinstein in her letter to Grassley, which was sent on Sunday, argued that the hearing should be delayed until the FBI could investigate allegations from Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
Ford alleges that during a high school party in the early 1980s Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothes. Ramirez told The New Yorker in an interview published Sunday that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her when they were both students at Yale.
Kavanaugh has denied both allegations and Grassley added in his letter that he didn't think Ramirez's allegation would impact Ford's testimony.
"The obvious connection between the two claims is thatSenate Democrats hid both allegations of misconduct from the Committee and the public," he added.
I was commenting on the statement, not the poster
I understand that.
I don’t know. That’s what I was trying to figure out. It sounds like it is.
Hitlery also is scared to death of Kavanaugh on the USSC. So is Mueller because I think the USSC will eventually be involved.
Just found out that’s not her.....it’s actually stunning all her photos prove false.....and none are to be found anywhere ligit So who has the power to fully scrub photos her friends would have, schools, work, etcetc. cause this just is’t an internet scrub of her social media.
Fords got more protection than I’ve ever seen .....whoever is behind this has a lot of power and money.
Some say that’s Hillarys personal photographer......but it looks like Katz.
Whoever is scrubbing Fords photos, and not just off the internet, has a lot of power, connections and “LEVERAGE” to The fact none are found evidences this is a well thought out and planned attack....she has more protection than I’ve ever seen....and the only one I know that has dirt enough on people to get them to do her bidding is Hillary clinton.
Hillary isn’t scared of anyone.....she has so much dirt on people she can make them jump in a heartbeat. And that kind of leverage is the only way and reason this has gone this far......Not to mention Obama...those two have been creamed by Trump and they are behind all of this resistance and obstuction....they had 8 yrs to set things up ....and we’re seeing it play out.
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I wish it had been true.
Grassley has finally strapped on a set of balls?
Pleasant surprise.
I had a feeling it wasn't.
The lady in the photo with Soros is kinda pretty, which doesn't match with the high school pic we've seen of Ford, who was sort of a duck.
Yep. DiFi probably had to pull a few strings to get some government contractors involved with that 'shovel ready project'.
To the “Honorable” DF...WHAT A JOKE!
SMACK! IOW, Grassley says, "I made some promises and I intend to keep them - no matter how many promises you, yourself choose to break....bitch
Some are saying the See Eye Aay.
...they had 8 yrs to set things up ....and we’re seeing it play out.
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That’s right. but I still think the evil witch is nervous.
Hitlery has no betters when it comes to corruption and criminality.
She is one very bitter and revengeful loser who will forcibly get people to do her dirty work with a smile on her face as she does so. I doubt any can escape her if she targets them to be used.
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