28-09-2018, 09:00 AM
Absent from Thursday's hearing were Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnik, two women who recently came forward with their own stories of sexual assault or misconduct allegedly perpetrated by Brett Kavanaugh.
Ramirez has claimed Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face during a party in college, when the two were students at Yale. Swetnick, in a sworn affidavit this week, claimed Kavanaugh was present at a party in high school where she was allegedly drugged and gang-raped. She did not directly implicate Kavanaugh in the assault but claimed he was part of a group of boys who would allegedly drug female classmates or spike their drinks before attacking them.
Mark Judge, a man both Swetnik and Ford have said was in attendance the day of their assaults, was also noticeably absent. Despite suggestions that Judge be subpoenaed to give his own testimony of the alleged assaults the Senate Judiciary Committee has so far declined to do so.
A confirmation vote for Kavanaugh is scheduled for Friday.
Ramirez has claimed Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face during a party in college, when the two were students at Yale. Swetnick, in a sworn affidavit this week, claimed Kavanaugh was present at a party in high school where she was allegedly drugged and gang-raped. She did not directly implicate Kavanaugh in the assault but claimed he was part of a group of boys who would allegedly drug female classmates or spike their drinks before attacking them.
Mark Judge, a man both Swetnik and Ford have said was in attendance the day of their assaults, was also noticeably absent. Despite suggestions that Judge be subpoenaed to give his own testimony of the alleged assaults the Senate Judiciary Committee has so far declined to do so.
A confirmation vote for Kavanaugh is scheduled for Friday.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass