A series of posts at Hullabaloo that pull together a lot of threads on the attempted rape accusations against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford.
Start with this one from Tom Sullivan, about the beginnings of the "evil twin" defense:
Whelan et al. have set themselves up for a major defamation suit, especially since Ford squelched their ploy right at the start.
Digby looks at some of the background used in pulling the "evil twin" defense together:
It's obvious that the Republican leadership doesn't want the FBI investigating this, or anything else to do with Kavanaugh, but there have been death threats:
It's starting to look like they're at the point of just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks. I don't have any high hopes that this is going to derail Kavanaugh's confirmation (jokester Susan Collins notwithstanding), but if they do ram it through, I have a feeling there will be fallout in November.
Start with this one from Tom Sullivan, about the beginnings of the "evil twin" defense:
The doppelganger defense that has been percolating for days appeared on Twitter yesterday, reports the Daily Beast:
A former Supreme Court clerk gave an alternate explanation for Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in a Twitter thread. Ed Whelan, former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and the president of a think tank called the Ethics and Public Policy Center, attempts to map possible locations for the party Ford described when telling her story about the alleged attempted assault. He points to a home belonging to another person whose floor plan “corresponds closely to Ford’s description” of the party house. Whelan claims Kavanaugh and the other person closely resemble each other.
Whelan et al. have set themselves up for a major defamation suit, especially since Ford squelched their ploy right at the start.
Digby looks at some of the background used in pulling the "evil twin" defense together:
That story had been teased in right-wing circles for a few days, even making it into the Washington Post opinion page when Kathleen Parker published a fatuous op-ed suggesting that Brett Kavanaugh must have an evil twin (she called it a "Kavanaugh doppelganger") who attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford at a high school party. Most people not steeped in the right-wing fever swamps thought Parker's piece was just a bizarre fantasy, but those who are tuned in to social and professional GOP establishment circles understood that she was previewing a quasi-official alternative theory of the case.
It's obvious that the Republican leadership doesn't want the FBI investigating this, or anything else to do with Kavanaugh, but there have been death threats:
On Rachel Maddow on Wednesday Sen Hirono of Hawaii called out the death threats and intimidation of Dr. Ford as witness tampering and said the FBI should "do its job" and investigate.(Emphasis in original.)
Since July Senator Feinstein's office honored Dr. Ford's wishes to remain anonymous. But then the press found out who Dr. Ford was so she identified herself publicly. At that point Senator Feinstein's obligation to keep her identity secret was dropped. However, as a constituent of Feinstein, an American citizen, and a key witness in an important government decision, Feinstein still has an obligation to Dr. Ford to protect her and defend her rights.
It's starting to look like they're at the point of just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks. I don't have any high hopes that this is going to derail Kavanaugh's confirmation (jokester Susan Collins notwithstanding), but if they do ram it through, I have a feeling there will be fallout in November.
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