I've never thought the big Ford-Kavanaugh hearing scheduled for Thursday would actually happen.
This hearing is not going to settle the issue of what happened 36 years ago - which, as I've noted, is why there is no point in having the hearing.
The hearings attendant to the nomination are not intended to be a trial.
Thursday's hearing, supplementing the 31 hours of testimony Judge Kavanaugh has already provided, is not even, as he suggests, a forum for "Clearing my name" - though he may understandably hope for that, just as one supposes that Ford hopes for some measure of vindication.
Democrats willfully sat on Ford's allegations and raised them in an untimely manner after the hearing.
In a normal legal proceeding, these claims would be deemed waived by the failure to raise them in a timely fashion and submit them to the regular hearing process.
In the first 150 years of constitutional governance, nominees did not appear at confirmation hearings.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-not-a-trial/
This hearing is not going to settle the issue of what happened 36 years ago - which, as I've noted, is why there is no point in having the hearing.
The hearings attendant to the nomination are not intended to be a trial.
Thursday's hearing, supplementing the 31 hours of testimony Judge Kavanaugh has already provided, is not even, as he suggests, a forum for "Clearing my name" - though he may understandably hope for that, just as one supposes that Ford hopes for some measure of vindication.
Democrats willfully sat on Ford's allegations and raised them in an untimely manner after the hearing.
In a normal legal proceeding, these claims would be deemed waived by the failure to raise them in a timely fashion and submit them to the regular hearing process.
In the first 150 years of constitutional governance, nominees did not appear at confirmation hearings.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-not-a-trial/
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