Blasey Ford Attorney: 'Multiple Witnesses' Should Be Included At Hearing
Source: Talking Points Memo
An attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, said in a statement Wednesday that “there are multiple witnesses” who should be included in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“The Committee’s stated plan to move forward with a hearing that has only two witnesses is not a fair or good faith investigation; there are multiple witnesses whose names have appeared publicly and should be included in any proceeding,” Blasey Ford’s attorney Lisa Banks said, as quoted by the Washington Post. “The rush to a hearing is unnecessary, and contrary to the Committee discovering the truth.”
The statement did not specify whether Blasey Ford would appear in the hearing scheduled for Monday, the Post noted.
It’s unclear which specific “witnesses whose names have appeared publicly” the statement was referring to. Cristina Miranda King wrote in a later-deleted Facebook post that, while Blasey Ford was “was a year or so behind me,” in their high school, “I remember her. This incident did happen.”
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Can you imagine a sexual assault trial where the prosecution could not call any corroborating witnesses who heard the victim's contemporaneous statements in response to allegations that the victim has just made up the story of sexual assault?
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/18/17869998/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-holton-arms
599 alumnae from Christine Blasey Ford’s high school sign letter saying they support her
Nearly 600 women from Christine Blasey Ford’s high school have signed on to an open letter saying that they support her and believe her account that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school.
“Dr. Blasey Ford’s experience is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves,” the letter reads. First circulated by a group of women who do not know Ford and who graduated from Holton-Arms, a private all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2005, the letter has 599 signatories from students who attended between 1962 and 2018.
Kate Gold, a class of 2005 Holton-Arms graduate who is an acupuncturist in Maryland, noted that the letter does not refer specifically to Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh but rather to the experiences of women more generally.
“A connection we all have is that in hearing her story, each and every one of us, resonated immediately, knowing that the situation she described could have happened to any one of us or our friends, and sometimes similar situations did,” Gold told Vox in an email.
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