On September 18th, Lance Morrow of the Wall Street Journal,
Compared the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings to the Salem witch trials.  Unfortunately, Mr. Morrow’s comparison is not a stretch.  In 18th Century Salem, the courts admitted the “testimony” of non-existent spectral witnesses, who made vague accusations that served to condemn the accused as a witch.  That scene is playing out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Democratic Senators, including ranking Democrat Diane Feinstein, interviewed Judge Kavanaugh at length before the confirmation hearings began.  He answered over 1,300 questions in 32 hours of testimony.  The hearings were marred by constant interruptions by protestors who were paid to get expelled from the hearing room and arrested.  Then there were the crazy women dressed as characters from, The Handmaid’s Tale.  However, apparently sometime in July, Feinstein received a letter from California college professor Christine Blasey Ford.  She reported a circa 1982 incident, in which she claims Kavanaugh, then 17, fondled her and put his hand over her mouth. Ford says she never mentioned the alleged incident until 2012, when she told a therapist.  She reportedly told the therapist four men were present.  She now says only Kavanaugh and a friend of his were there.  She can’t say where this supposedly happened, or exactly when it happened, how she got there, or how she got home.  Kavanaugh’s friend says he never saw such a thing.  Ford’s friend says she wasn’t there.  Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusation.  More than 200 female friends and colleagues have signed letters attesting to Kavanaugh’s character and lifelong decent treatment of women.  This list included women who knew and dated him in high school.  No Democrat asked the Judge about this.  After the vote on the nomination was scheduled, it was leaked.  Ford claims she wanted to be anonymous, but for some reason hired a Democrat activist lawyer, took a polygraph test during the summer, and told The Washington Post all about it.  The vote was postponed.  Ever devoted to fairness, Democrats immediately pronounced Kavanaugh guilty.  Kavanaugh demanded to testify about this.  Senator Grassley invited Ms. Ford to testify on September 24.  Her lawyer said she would, then  said Ford would not appear.  Grassley offered to hear her in public, in private, or to send investigators to California to take her statement privately.  Ford then announced she was willing to testify, but only after an investigation by the FBI.  How one would conduct an investigation 36 years after the fact, when the complainant has very few details to share, and when the only people identified by the complainant say it never happened, is unclear.  As a prosecutor who conducted investigations, I can tell you it’s impossible.  The Democrats happily took up the cudgel.  Senators shifted gears from demanding that Ford be heard immediately, to claiming that requiring Ford to testify now would be a violation of her rights and her privacy.  Senator Gilibrand denounced the September 24th hearing as “a sham.” Senator Maisie Hirono, demonstrating what you get from a one Party State, advised all men to “just shut up, and step up” because “women must be heard, and must be believed.” I guess that means that, having slandered Judge Kavanaugh in The Washington Post, Ford must be believed now, but shouldn’t have to repeat her accusation under oath now.  Then again, if a complainant’s gender dictates credibility, there’s really no need for a hearing.  Just get a rope.  It reminded me of a scene from A Man For All Seasons.  Thomas Moore, on trial for treason, is the victim of perjury.  The judge says, “The jury shall retire to consider evidence.”  Cromwell says, “Considering the evidence, is it necessary for the jury to retire?”  It wasn’t.  “Guilty.”  We then were treated to a ridiculous “negotiation” in which Dr. Ford’s lawyer, who is tied to Hillary Clinton, dictated her terms to the Senate, including demands that Judge Kavanaugh testify first, that he not be present when she testified, that her testimony not be under oath, that the media must be restricted, and only one camera angle be permitted, and, oh yes, she doesn’t like to fly, so she couldn’t appear on Monday the 24th, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, either.  Then, when the Senate agreed to hear her on Thursday, the 27th, another accuser, predictably, entered the fray. This time, it was a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale, who can’t remember the day or the month or the year, but claims, although she was nearly passed-out drunk, and really can’t remember well, he exposed himself to her.  Her former roommate and best friend says she never mentioned it to her.  Other classmates who she said were present say they can’t confirm her story.  Even the New York Times says it wasn’t comfortable running this story (It did anyway).  Not to be out done, the creepy porn lawyer, Michael Avenatti (or is it Scifossanatti?), also wants to testify (not a client of his, mind you, he wants to testify) that Kavanaugh and his friends were responsible for gang rapes in college.  If that’s hard to believe, it’s only because it’s bullshit.  The purpose of this shameful exercise is, and always has been, to delay the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, who is a threat to the Left.  The threat is that an honest Justice, who will apply the provisions of the constitution as written may stop or slow the Progressive drive to advance policies that the voters and the legislature would never approve, and which the constitution does not guarantee. I’ve often said, if Democrats didn’t stand for hypocrisy, they’d stand for nothing at all, but they’ve outdone themselves here. They have proven that they have no scruples, no morals, and no decency.  The Democrats were faced with an eminently qualified man, one of the best qualified nominees ever to be proposed to sit on the high court, a religious man, with a fine family, who volunteers to serve meals to the homeless, and who has been hailed by colleagues and former law clerks as a champion for women in the legal profession.  In a sane world, and in a sane time, he would be unanimously confirmed.  But we live in Crazyland, where half the inhabitants are afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Anything proposed by Trump must be stopped.  They couldn’t stop Kavanaugh on his merits, so, if you can’t beat him, smear him.   As this is written, the Senate Committee is planning to vote.  Stay tuned.