You ought to read the whole thing, but here's the money paragraph:
“I was raped thirteen years ago and I don’t remember the date, do you believe me?” a woman asked Senator Lindsey Graham. Graham’s response—“I’m sorry, but then you should go to the cops”—was criticized as “horrifically insensitive and dismissive,” but his answer is the only one that makes sense, because it takes the debate out of the transcendent realm and into the world of facts and accountability, for all parties. Demanding that lawmakers “believe” what other people tell them is what happens in theocracies. Our criminal justice system is equipped with the tools to handle sexual assault claims and ascertain guilt: we don’t need a quasi-religious parallel process to adjudicate one class of crimes according to a different set of procedural standards.When someone's statement is characterized as insensitive and dismissive, it's probably something constructive and tethered to reality.
It took heavy machinery to cram so much hypocrisy into a single paragraph.
ReplyDelete"Our criminal justice system is equipped with the tools to handle sexual assault claims and ascertain guilt" is absolutely jaw-dropping given the stubborn refusal of Trump's GOP to effectively use those tools and responsibly discharge their Constitutional duties.
Got any examples of this "stubborn refusal"?
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the objective of your baiting is, but the issue is not whether anybody gives a steaming pile what Graham believes about this survivor's assault, but rather: a) should she or Dr Ford be given the respect any American citizen should reasonably expect in their claims; and, b) is it not his duty as a Senator to insist that every effort be made to only allow the finest and most reputable jurists to be elevated to these seats.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, the Supreme Court has no means to enforce a single one of it's decisions except through the acquiescence of all the other agencies of government. And that cooperation relies entirely on the nation's faith and respect in the Court's integrity and protecting that legitimacy is the guiding rationale for the Senate's advice and consent role.
It was every Senator's duty to weigh both of those responsibilities, and whether it is Susan Collins deciding that facing Susan Rice in the general was a better bet than facing LePage in a primary or Graham doing the normal whoring Graham has done his entire career, the GOP Senators failed in their duty to Dr Ford, to the Court, and to the nation.
Let's peel it back to the next level. How did they fail in their duty to Dr. Ford the Court and the nation?
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