Justin Fairfax is not being Franken'd

[Jarqui]

160. At least one of these women has agreed to testify for impeachment

Mr Cohen can advise them of the penalty for lying while cross examined under oath to a legislative body. How is that materially different that answering questions from criminal investigators? I'm sure the impeachment prosecutor and defending counsel will be well prepared for the show.

The point of bringing up the Washington Post has gone soaring over your head. They're known as a pretty good paper with pretty good resources. After looking at this story for several months, they couldn't gather enough evidence to publish it. That is an indication of how little evidence and how unreliable the evidence was. When a good paper cannot gather enough evidence to run a story, they're a long, long way from being able to gather enough evidence to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt.

The VA Senate has 21 Republicans of 40 in the Senate.
How do you think the party of racists will vote on impeachment of a black man accused of rape?
Impeachment probably only needs six more of 19 Dems who might see voting for impeachment as politically good for them - on top of the 21 Republicans.

Getting due process that does not result in a conviction doesn't get the victims anything except bigger legal bills from their hot shot lawyers.

Getting Fairfax impeached or successfully pressuring him resign gets them some justice.

The chances of these two women being able to persuade 6 of 19 Dems to vote for impeachment or put enough public pressure on Fairfax to resign is probably much better than the roughly 1 in 10,000 chance they have of getting a criminal conviction through the due process you advocate. They can get the cursory due process they're likely to receive because their case is so poor and flip that towards impeachment - where their chances are much greater to get them justice.