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SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES
There are no 'charges' against Brett Kavanaugh. This isn't a criminal or civil court case.

It's a case of a citizen challenging the moral qualifications of a nominee for a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land based on her alleged experience with him back in high school.

The alleged witness to the alleged assault is unwilling to testify on Kavanaugh's behalf in front of Congress and would be obliterated by any decent prosecutor if criminal charges were filed (which will almost certainly not happen and hasn't been threatened).

Whatever really happened or didn't happen 35 years ago between Ford and Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh would be an idiot not to have an attorney advising him, and he'd be an idiot to threaten/file defamation charges no matter how his nomination plays out. That would only keep the allegations and questions in the news. I don't believe Kavanaugh is an idiot.

Defamation cases are typically very costly and extremely difficult to win; defamation requires intent and malice. Ford reportedly passed a lie detector test, likely because it happened just as she says or because she believes it did, in my opinion.
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RE: SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES - by HairOfTheDog - 09-19-2018, 07:58 PM