Second and Third Accusers against Kavanaugh come forward!

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This is how victims are isolated and silenced': Kavanaugh accuser reacts to his likely confirmation

Read the full statement from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Debbie Ramirez.


AMANDA MICHELLE GOMEZ OCT 6, 2018, 12:42 PM

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KAVANAUGH ACCUSER DEBORAH RAMIREZ REACTED TO HIS LIKELY CONFIRMATION SATURDAY. (CREDIT: RJ SANGOSTI/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGES) Debbie Ramirez, who attended Yale with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, said the Senate's treatment of her was reminiscent of when the judge first assaulted her 35 years ago.
"[T]he other students in the room chose to laugh and look the other way as sexual violence was perpetrated on me by Brett Kavanaugh," Ramirez said in a statement released Saturday, just a few hours before Kavanaugh's final confirmation vote.
"As I watch many of the Senators speak and vote on the floor of the Senate I feel like I'm right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way. Only this time, instead of drunk college kids, it is US Senators who are deliberately ignoring his behavior."
Ramirez told the New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her at a college party, thrusting his penis in her face and making her touch it without her consent. She is one of three women who accused President Donald Trump's nominee of sexual assault.
Despite Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's credible testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in which she described her own assault and reports that the FBI investigation into the allegations were far from thorough, enough senators say they are voting in favor of the nomination to confirm Kavanaugh.
Many senators have said they believe Dr. Ford was assaulted but that it wasn't Kavanaugh and that she's "mixed up" and "mistaken" meaning, they do not actually believe her. So Kavanaugh, a man who is opposed by a majority of the country, is all but certain to become the next Supreme Court justice.
Ramirez's statement echoed Dr. Ford's testimony. Dr. Ford told senators she could never forget the "uproarious laughter" from Kavanaugh and his college friend Mark Judge when the former assaulted her in high school. Using her expertise as a psychologist professor, she said "indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter the uproarious laughter between the two and they're having fun at my expense."
Read the full statement from Kavanaugh's accuser, Debbie Ramirez:

Thirty-five years ago, the other students in the room chose to laugh and look the other way as sexual violence was perpetrated on me by Brett Kavanaugh. As I watch many of the Senators speak and vote on the floor of the Senate I feel like I'm right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way. Only this time, instead of drunk college kids, it is US Senators who are deliberately ignoring his behavior. This is how victims are isolated and silenced.
But I do have corroborating witnesses speaking for me, although they were not allowed to speak to the FBI, and I feel extremely grateful for them and for the overwhelming amount of support that I have received and continue to receive during this extremely difficult and painful time. There may be people with power who are looking the other way, but there are millions more who are standing together, speaking up about personal experiences of sexual violence and taking action to support survivors. This is truly a collective moment of survivors and allies standing together.
Thank you for hearing me, seeing me and believing me. I am grateful for each and every one of you. We will not be silenced.
We stand in truth and light,
Debbie Ramirez

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With Kavanaugh confirmed, nearly a quarter of SCOTUS has been accused of sexual misconduct

The highest court in the country now includes multiple men with credible accusations of sexual misconduct against them.

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SUPREME COURT JUSTICES CLARENCE THOMAS AND BRETT KAVANAUGH. (DIANA OFOSU/THINKPROGRESS)Brett Kavanaugh is the 114th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In a 50-48 vote in the Senate on Saturday, 49 Republicans and one Democrat voted to confirm Kavanaugh's lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country despite numerous allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him.
Following Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's congressional testimony about her accusation that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her in high school, the White House approved a "supplemental background investigation" of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. However, that effort was widely considered to be woefully incomplete since the scope of the probe was limited by Republicans and the FBI didn't interview Ford, Kavanaugh, or dozens of other people of potential interest.
Ford's testimony evoked comparisons to Anita Hill, who also spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a nationally-televised hearing about accusations of sexual misconduct by a Supreme Court nominee.
In October 1991, Hill detailed how a former male co-worker in the federal government had allegedly engaged in repeated sexual harassment. According to her testimony, Hill's then-boss subjected her to remarks about "his own sexual prowess," "the size of his own penis as being larger than normal," and "pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals, and films showing group sex or rape scenes."
Women who claimed to corroborate the accusations were not allowed to testify before the Senate. Despite the allegations, Republicans rarely wavered in their support of the conservative judge who had been nominated by a Republican president, as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) claimed the accuser was confused while Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) complained about the allegations being made public. After a questionable FBI investigation and an angry denial by the conservative judicial nominee, Clarence Thomas was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court.
With Kavanaugh's confirmation, nearly a quarter of the Supreme Court has now been credibly accused of sexual misconduct since Thomas remains on the bench 27 years after Hill's allegations of sexual harassment.
The laws of the land on reproductive rights, as well as other health issues that affect women and gender minorities, are now subject to a Supreme Court on which a third of the male justices have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct against women.


DIANA OFOSU/THINKPROGRESSAn October 1991 New York Times/CBS News poll found that only 24 percent of respondents believed Hill's accusations against Thomas. A Quinnipiac pollreleased earlier this week showed 48 percent of respondents believe Ford's allegations about Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh is the second judge nominated by Trump, who himself has been credibly accused of sexual assault and harassment by over a dozen women, to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, but Senate Republicans prevented President Barack Obama from filling the vacancy during his last year in office in an unprecedented show of obstruction. Trump then nominated Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed by a 54-45 Senate vote in April 2017, instead. Kavanaugh fills the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedys retirement this summer.

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[James Lateer]

If it feels like you have been a victim of terrorism, then you have been a victim of terrorism.

The Skull and Bones, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, CFR people just put a person on the Supreme Court who would be liable for time in the penitentiary for attempted rape if there had been an adequate investigation.

To put a likely "attempted rapist" on the Supreme Court amounts to terrorism against the American public. "We're going to put the criminals in charge of the courts and the jailhouse, and you can't stop us." In fact, WE ARE THE CRIMINALS---TOO BAD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!

This is the nether-world of the Bush family, the dark hidden forces, the Deep State where criminality is not just a virtue, it is an absolute requirement. How better to terrorize the American public than to push criminals right in their face?

Apparently, for Bush-Cheney and Deep State operatives, "TO GOVERN MEANS TO TERRORIZE". This was the watchword for Hitler-Himmler-Muller and also their friends the Bush family, specifically Prescott Bush and company. Allen Dulles, and their friend who supervized the lockup of the WWII Japanese, John J. McCloy, also both enabled Nazi terrorism, although not participating personally in Nazi activities.

We are all now living in a huge downscale neighborhood where the equivalent of MS-13 rules the streets. And we're afraid to go out. But the gang that rules the streets is called the Bush family, the Skull and Bones people, the murderers of JFK, the folks who framed-up Nixon.

As in the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, the little people can gain power. The only thing holding them (us) back is our own naivete, our own failure to keep informed and up to date on these evil forces.

Don't give up the ship! Never say "die". We have to dust ourselves off, get up out of the dirt and keep on our mission. After all, would you rather spend your life as a Dick Cheney type of person?

Not me. At least I can sleep at night.

James Lateer

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A national nonpartisan group has turned BrettKavanaugh.com into a website dedicated to supporting survivors in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's conformation to the high court, amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
The homepage has a picture of the court and proclaims, "We believe survivors."
"The start of Brett Kavanaugh's tenure on the Supreme Court may look like a victory for one interest group or another," the site reads. "But, more importantly, it is putting a national focus on the issue of sexual assault and how we as a country can and should do more to prevent it and to support those who have experienced it."
The site goes on to applaud survivors who came forward with their stories of sexual assault and harassment in the midst of Kavanaugh's confirmation fight and offers a list of resources for people in need, including the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, End Rape on Campus, and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
The .org and .net sites under Kavanaugh's name also redirect to the .com site.
Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, the group that set up the site, said in a statement that he purchased the domains three years ago, along with others he thought might be "useful in any forthcoming Supreme Court confirmation battles."
"I believe Dr. Ford. I believe Prof. Hill. I also believe that asking for forgiveness is a sign of maturity and strength, not weakness," Roth said in his statement about the site. "Watching the White House ceremony… and listening to the President again cast doubt on the veracity of Dr. Ford's claims, while not hearing a word of contrition from the newest justice, was difficult for many Americans who have experienced sexual misconduct firsthand."
Kavanaugh's confirmation this past weekend was held less than two weeks after Christine Blasey Ford, the first of three women to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a "gathering" in high school.
Both in an interview with The Washington Post last month and during her testimony, Ford said Kavanaugh forced her into an empty bedroom where he groped her over her clothes and tried to pull off her clothing, covering up her mouth and turning up the music in the room to muffle her screams. She said she was able to escape and lock herself in a bathroom when Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, who was allegedly in the room during the attack, jumped on the bed, jostling them apart.
The second woman who came forward, Deborah Ramirez, told The New Yorker that, at a party in college, Kavanaugh thrust his penis to her face against her wishes, forcing her to touch it. A third woman, Julie Swetnick, later wrote in a sworn affidavit that she was gang raped at a party where Kavanaugh was present. Though she did not implicate Kavanaugh in the attack, she claimed Kavanaugh was among a group of boys with whom she associated that frequently spiked women's drinks or drugged them in order to rape them.
Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations against him.
The FBI conducted a brief investigation into the accusations, but they were severely restricted by Senate Republicans and the White House. The investigation lasted less than a week and Ford's lawyers told reporters that she was never questioned as part of the inquiry.
Just one Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted against Kavanaugh, and one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) joined the GOP to confirm Kavanaugh.
Protests against Kavanaugh's confirmation continued this week, though in more muted form. In addition to the domain names held by Fix the Court, a number of protesters showed up outside the court on Kavanaugh's first official day on the bench, silently demonstrating and holding signs that read "We will not forget" and "We do not consent."

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Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorado

Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh took an oath delivered by retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the White House swearing in ceremony on Oct. 8. (Reuters)


By Ann E. Marimow and

Tom Hamburger

October 10 at 4:36 PM
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in Colorado.
The 15 complaints, related to statements Kavanaugh made during his Senate confirmation hearings, were initially filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, where Kavanaugh served for the last 12 years before his confirmation Saturday to the Supreme Court.
The allegations center on whether Kavanaugh was dishonest and lacked judicial temperament during his Senate testimony, according to people familiar with the matter.
Last month, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asked Roberts to refer the complaints to another appeals court for review after determining that they should not be handled by judges who served with Kavanaugh on the D.C. appellate court.
In a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Roberts said he selected the court in Colorado to "accept the transfer and to exercise the powers of a judicial council with respect to the identified complaints and any pending or new complaints relating to the same subject matter."
[D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh's testimony to Chief Justice Roberts]
The Denver-based appeals court is led by Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, the former solicitor general of Colorado who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush. The 10th Circuit handled another recent judicial misconduct case from Washington involving the former chief judge of the District Court.
It is unclear what will come of the review by the 10th Circuit. The judiciary's rules on misconduct do not apply to Supreme Court justices, and the 10th Circuit could decide to dismiss the complaints as moot now that Kavanaugh has joined the high court.
"There is nothing that a judicial council could do at this point," said Arthur D. Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh and expert on the operation of federal courts.
He said it was unprecedented for a new justice to face such a situation. Hellman predicted that the 10th Circuit will likely close the case "because it is no longer within their jurisdiction," now that Kavanaugh has been elevated to the Supreme Court.
The letter from Roberts does not mention Kavanaugh by name. On Saturday, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the D.C. Circuit, whooriginally requested the transfer, said in a statement that the court had received complaints about Kavanaugh since the start of his confirmation hearings.
"The complaints do not pertain to any conduct in which Judge Kavanaugh engaged as a judge. The complaints seek investigations only of the public statements he has made as a nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States," said Henderson, a Bush nominee.
Complaints made against judges are usually handled by the chief judge. Henderson took over from Chief Judge Merrick Garland, who recused himself from the matter.
When complaints were filed in late September and early October, Henderson dismissed some but concluded that others were substantive enough to refer to another judicial panel for investigation.
Roberts received the first transfer request on Sept. 20, followed by four additional requests on Sept. 26, Sept. 28, Oct. 3 and Oct. 5, according to his letter. He did not immediately move to refer the filings to another appeals court.
People familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity say the allegations had already been widely discussed in the Senate and in the public realm. Roberts did not see an urgent need for them to be resolved by the judicial branch while he continued to review the incoming complaints, they said.
The complaints landed with Roberts because of his role as chief justice of the United States, not because Kavanaugh is now a member of the Supreme Court.
Such complaints are usually confidential unless the judicial council investigating issues a public report about its findings.
The existence of misconduct complaints and the procedure can be disclosed, according to the rules, "when necessary or appropriate to maintain public confidence in the judiciary's ability to redress misconduct or disability."
The public nature of a case last year involving former 9th Circuit judge Alex Kozinski, who was accused of sexual misconduct, was unusual. The chief judge of the 9th Circuit asked Roberts to transfer the case for review after The Washington Post reported allegations against Kozinski.
Roberts referred the case to the appeals court in New York City. The judicial council of that court publicly announced it was closing its investigation because Kozinski had retired, saying that because he "can no longer perform any judicial duties, he does not fall within the scope of persons who can be investigated."