Brett Kavanaugh
Posted: October 3rd, 2018, 9:44 am
US politics again.
Did you watch the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate committee? Do you think she was a credible witness and/or that the charges levelled against Kavanaugh are persuasive? Or do you think that this whole thing has been made up by some Democrats to stop the balance in the Supreme Court from being tipped in favour of conservative for, potentially, decades to come?
If you think the latter, and if you are strongly opposed to this tipping, would you consider that such a plot might be justified? Might the end justify the means? Or would the use of a false sexual assault allegation set such a terrible precedent, and do such damage to the perceived credibility of genuine sexual assault victims, that no end could justify such a means?
President Trump started by saying that he found Ford's testimony to be credible. But in a recent political rally to his followers he mocked her testimony, to the entertainment of the crowd. This has drawn criticism from Republican Jeff Flake (among others) whose vote is important for the elevation of Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
For this reason, do you think this latest intervention by Trump might actually result in that elevation not happening?
Did you watch the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate committee? Do you think she was a credible witness and/or that the charges levelled against Kavanaugh are persuasive? Or do you think that this whole thing has been made up by some Democrats to stop the balance in the Supreme Court from being tipped in favour of conservative for, potentially, decades to come?
If you think the latter, and if you are strongly opposed to this tipping, would you consider that such a plot might be justified? Might the end justify the means? Or would the use of a false sexual assault allegation set such a terrible precedent, and do such damage to the perceived credibility of genuine sexual assault victims, that no end could justify such a means?
President Trump started by saying that he found Ford's testimony to be credible. But in a recent political rally to his followers he mocked her testimony, to the entertainment of the crowd. This has drawn criticism from Republican Jeff Flake (among others) whose vote is important for the elevation of Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
For this reason, do you think this latest intervention by Trump might actually result in that elevation not happening?