Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, when 15 years old was a victim of sexual aggression from 17 year-old Brett Kavanaugh, she alleges. Dr Ford has asked the FBI to reopen their investigation to include this incident; FBI conducts background investigations on nominees for Supreme Court as regular protocol. An inconvenient request for those in power who set the schedules; Grassley/McConnell’s deadline is self-imposed. “It doesn’t matter when assault victims speak-up — people will always say they are too late”, says columnist Dahlia Lithwick . What of all those middle-aged men who only recently spoke up about being sexually assaulted by countless priests? Whose voices do we value in our society? How many people made it through high school and life without sexually assaulting anyone? Kavanaugh enjoys a federally-funded security detail; Dr Ford’s family had to hire security, relocate amidst death threats, all because she felt it her civic duty to ‘uncloak’ a flawed nominee for life-time judgeship to the highest court in our land.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Sep 21 2018
My take on the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, when 15 years old was a victim of sexual aggression from 17 year-old Brett Kavanaugh, she alleges. Dr Ford has asked the FBI to reopen their investigation to include this incident; FBI conducts background investigations on nominees for Supreme Court as regular protocol. An inconvenient request for those in power who set the schedules; Grassley/McConnell’s deadline is self-imposed. “It doesn’t matter when assault victims speak-up — people will always say they are too late”, says columnist Dahlia Lithwick . What of all those middle-aged men who only recently spoke up about being sexually assaulted by countless priests? Whose voices do we value in our society? How many people made it through high school and life without sexually assaulting anyone? Kavanaugh enjoys a federally-funded security detail; Dr Ford’s family had to hire security, relocate amidst death threats, all because she felt it her civic duty to ‘uncloak’ a flawed nominee for life-time judgeship to the highest court in our land.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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