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Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:30 PM Sep 2018

And this on the heels of Bill Cosby's sentancing whch dominated yesterday's news

...Coverage which highlighted the strength and perseverance of contagious women who persevered when their allegations here initially dismissed by those with power. Those interviews of Cosby survivors were intense, highly personal, and extremely moving. Indelible in fact. And now this. America gets to watch as the rich and powerful Republican white males who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee attempt to railroad through a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court of a privileged male accused of serial sexual assaults without even authorizing a full investigation of the allegations against him. Or even allowing witnesses who can corroborate what his victims went through to even testify, let alone here testimony from all of the women who have come forth.

Republicans chose to go all in with Kavenaugh. Now they are trapped on the same sinking boat with him, whether or not they continue on their course to install him on the Court as soon as is humanly possible.

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