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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDershowitz calls on GOP to postpone Kavanaugh vote until FBI can investigate
Dershowitz calls on GOP to postpone Kavanaugh vote until FBI can investigate
By Morgan Gstalter - 09/28/18 07:56 AM EDT
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz has called for Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone a vote on Brett Kavanaughs nomination to the Supreme Court until the FBI can investigate claims of sexual misconduct against him.
Dershowitz wrote an opinion piece for Fox News on Thursday after Kavanaugh and one of his three accusers, Christine Blasey Ford, testified before the panel.
He wrote that he thinks it is unlikely there will be a delay though because political truth has replaced scientific truth in our highly partisan age.
Ford was the first of three women to come forward and accuse Kavanaugh of varying degrees of sexual misconduct while in high school or college.
Accusations as serious as those made by Ford and others against Kavanaugh which allege he was guilty of criminal conduct should not stand without clear and convincing evidence of their truth in a nation where the courts presume an accused person is innocent until proven guilty, Dershowitz wrote. An FBI investigation might provide more evidence either favorable or unfavorable to Kavanaugh.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408896-dershowitz-calls-on-gop-to-postpone-kavanaugh-vote-until-fbi-can-investigate
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Dershowitz calls on GOP to postpone Kavanaugh vote until FBI can investigate (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2018
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IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)1. The broken clock is right!
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)2. Well I see fox not having him on anymore
Wtf why not say this a week ago?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)3. Wow. When you've lost Dershowitz....
Vinca
(50,273 posts)4. Dershowitz is honest enough to know the investigation won't end with a vote to seat Kavanaugh.
Picture a Supreme Court justice being led out of the court in handcuffs. Your move, Mr. Avenatti.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)5. Where was he when Giuliani said that "truth is not truth?"
Giuliani essentially said that truth is what the most powerful person wants it to be.
And now Dershowitz complains about exactly that???