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I feel she is being honest, but she is a bit "ditzy".
This is not a very easy process. It's not a matter of calling your local representative on a Monday and it's live in front of Congress on Wednesday. It just doesn't happen that way. From what she just said this process started with her before he was nominated while he was on the short list. She contacted a number of friends for advice and there is a lot to consider. Someone like this has to consider if they even want to turn their life upside down by moving forward with with this. If they decide to move forward, they have to decide if they want to hire an attorney, if they should contact a reporter, their local representative, then she has to be vetted (is this person crazy? a criminal?), then they document everything, then they start looking into if the claims are true.
Take politics out of this. If your local school board was having a vote to hire a new high school principal and suddenly multiple women came forward saying this man had sexually assaulted them twenty years ago, would the school board continue to move forward with a vote? Or would they stop everything and call the police and demand an investigation? You know without a doubt the school board would stop everything and have an investigation. Yet for some reason we aren't doing this here. This is for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, and we need to have a MUCH higher standard than a local county school board.
Again, take politics out of it. When a forty year old man comes forward and claims a priest molested him when he was a teen, no one says "Maybe he was confused" or "maybe he doesn't remember what happened correctly" or "there is no evidence of this". That doesn't happen. Instead they call the police and have an investigation. Every time.
Some people are claiming the Democrats are "playing political games". I disagree. They pushed a Supreme Court nomination through last year and none of this happened. Before the accusations, this was a bad candidate. He lied under oath multiple times during his confirmation, and before the accusations he was most unpopular nominee of all time.
It's odd how with the last nomination the Republicans weren't remotely interested in filling a Supreme Court - In fact, they demanded we wait until after the election. Now suddenly they want to push this nomination through as quickly as possible. Bullshit. They want to push this through because they want this man on the Supreme Court to protect their President in the event the Mueller investigation lands in the lap of the Supreme Court.
A President accused multiple times of sexually assault women is putting a man on the Supreme Court who has been accused of sexually assaulting mulitple women. This is fucking disgusting already.
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