We owe Kantor and Twohey a debt of gratitude for not wavering in the face of so many obstacles. There’s the completely understandable reluctance of the victims to discuss, and therefore re-experience, their dreadful trauma. There’s the persistent, sometimes diabolical efforts of the perpetrators and accomplices to prevent these stories from being told, to smear and intimidate victims and investigators alike.
If you are under 50 and, during your life, rights were ever-expanding and you thought it would be ever so: Did you hear the door slam?
In his letter to the editor Jon Piasecki writes: “Perhaps he does not understand that, when more people voted for Andrea Harrington, she beat him.”
What is troubling is not Trump’s predictably crass and sadistic behavior, but the support Kavanaugh has aroused from a sizable portion of the public.
In September the New York Times revealed there are even more kids in concentration camps than we knew and they are being relocated in the middle of the night to facilities that warehouse them.
Kavanaugh’s Yale roommate James Roche is far from the first of Kavanaugh’s classmates to accuse him of lying during the Senate Judiciary Committee
Do we really want someone on the top court in the country who has an anger problem, lies under oath and is, in all likelihood, a serial sex offender?
At first, Dr. Ford seemed a familiar stranger, someone I might have taken classes with or lived near, someone I’d seen but not known—until she spoke, that is, and I knew her, because she was painting me a portrait of myself.
Brett Kavanaugh showed himself to still be who he always was: an entitled bratty frat boy who shouts at others and pities himself.
“Oh, gee, let’s not make him a Supreme Court judge because of that.”
— President Trump
“If our own justice system does not value the voice of abuse survivors, that sets a tone for our entire country to follow suit.”
— MMRHS junior Greta Luf
As an “outstanding man,” Kavanaugh joins a less-than-illustrious group of crime-doers, scam enthusiasts, and lecherous crank-yankers whom Trump has defended
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