Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Found Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Found Guilty Until Proven Innocent

BY: Alex Griswold

September 20, 2018 5:00 am

Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of attempted rape. His accuser, Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford, claims that 35 years ago he held her down at a party, covered her mouth, and tried to strip her. The Supreme Court nominee says he never attended any sort of party similar to the one she describes. Whether through an FBI investigation (as Blasey Ford's lawyer has suggested) or Senate hearing (as Kavanaugh backers support), both those claims will inevitably come under further scrutiny.

Unfortunately there isn't much in the way of actual evidence. Blasey Ford apparently made a similar accusation with minor differences in a therapist's session a decade ago, and years later she identified the man in her story as Kavanaugh. She passed a polygraph test, but those are notoriously unreliable, only slightly better than a coin flip per some studies. Both Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford have hosts of friends and colleagues attesting to their moral character.

What it boils down to is the evidence Brett Kavanaugh attempted a rape is that Blasey Ford said he did, and the evidence he did not is that he says he did not. It's the classic "he-said, she-said" situation that frustrates those of us who like nice, clean answers to tricky questions. But to many partisans the issue has been settled: Kavanaugh is guilty, and the burden of proof lies with him to prove that he is not.

The most blatantly stupid of these arguments comes courtesy of ABC's Matthew Dowd, who states that in a he-said, she-said situation, we ought to just automatically believe the woman.

    Enough with the "he said, she said" storyline. If this is he said, she said, then let’s believe the she in these scenarios. She has nothing to gain, and everything to lose. For 250 years we have believed the he in these scenarios. Enough is enough.

    — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) September 17, 2018

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

She has nothing to gain, and everything to lose.

Right.  And that's the bogus presumption that led to the Duke Lacrosse rape case, and all the other cases of false sexual assault/rape.

[Jazzhead]

She has nothing to gain, and everything to lose

Oh that's palpable nonsense.  What she has to gain is political - she is seeking to deny Judge Kavanaugh appointment to the Supreme Court.  Her motivation "to be heard" has everything to do with her bias - and we all know that such bias, as least as manifested by the Dem Senators on the Judiciary Committee, utterly lacks conscience regarding the ruination of an honorable man.