Justin Fairfax is not being Franken'd

[Jarqui]

173. Nonsense

Half the VA Senate is made up of lawyers

This gang of 20 lawyers & a state trooper, able to tap outside counsel and resources, cannot match a couple of prosecutors in MA and NC?

I doubt it.

How about this senator?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-mcdougle-02852517/
Mr. McDougle is former prosecutor who spent years prosecuting thousands of cases in Virginia’s Circuit Courts, General District Courts, and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts.

Or this senator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Black_(politician)
Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps
After the war, he left the service and earned a law degree, returning to military service (1976) as a prosecutor with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.[1] Black later headed the Army's Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, before retiring from the military in 1994.

Rape in the military was a pretty big deal for JAG

Or this senator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stanley_(politician)
(Stanley) joined the Northern Virginia law firm of Gilbert Davis, where he was involved in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton.

Or this senator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Edwards_(Virginia_politician)
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Edwards United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. During his term, Edwards's office achieved several milestones. The Roanoke Times & World News reported that he had one of the "perhaps most successful tenures of any federal prosecutor in recent years." He prosecuted the largest criminal case in the country at the time under the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, prosecuted the first criminal civil rights case in Virginia, initiated a national investigation into public corruption in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, prosecuted the largest bank robbery in Virginia history, and prosecuted organized crime. His office also received recognition from the Department of Justice for increasing by several times the collection of monies owed the federal government. He is the author of "Professional Responsibilities of the Federal Prosecutor," 17 U. Rich. L. Rev. 511 (1983).
Edwards is a partner in his law firm. His law practice includes a broad range of civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts, including trials and appeals.
He has handled many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ...

Or this senator?
Former Virginia State Trooper Charles William Carrico Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Carrico_Sr.

Or this senator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Norment
Norment is an Adjunct Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School.[2] He served as on-campus attorney, and counselor and attorney to the President of William and Mary

I wonder how many on-campus sexual assaults he's overseen ...

Scott Surovell - Criminal lawyer
Lynwood Lewis - Criminal lawyer
Jennifer McClellan - lawyer, served on Courts of Justice Committee
Mark Peake, lawyer, Personal injury, Criminal defense
Creigh Deeds - Criminal lawyer

Other Lawyers in the VA Senate
Lionell Spruill
Glen Sturtevant
Bill Stanley
Creigh Deeds
Ben Chafin
Mark Obenshain
Jill Vogel
Richard H. Stuart
Chap Petersen

Senator Barb Fravola - not a lawyer but
"Chair of the Virginia Advisory Committee for Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence"

These 20 lawyers asking these two women questions ought to be able to do a pretty good job on due process of a rape allegation compared to a couple of prosecutors in MA or NC.

The pitch they can make to politicians during impeachment that probably won't do as well in court ...

Statistics show between 92% and 98% of rape allegations have merit. Each woman has an 8% chance they're lying. The probability that both women are lying is 8% x 8% = 0.64 %
In other words, there is roughly a 99.36% statistical probability Fairfax raped one or more of these women based on those stats.

Now there's about 0.1% chance it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. But politicians under public and political pressure might vote for the women ...