Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have chosen Arizona prosector Rachel Mitchell, who has a background in handling sexual assault cases, to handle the questioning of Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who’s accused him of assault during the hearing on Thursday.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced the decision in a statement on Tuesday evening. Mitchell, a registered Republican, is the head of the special victims unit of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Arizona, the Washington Post reported. She handles cases that deal with sex offenses, domestic and family violence, as well as the abuse of children and sexual assault cases. Mitchell reportedly has a history of investigating sexual crimes that occurred years before and even worked on unresolved sex cases that were scantly investigated by former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Republicans opted to bring in a female lawyer to handle the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford, as well as Kavanaugh, in order to avoid what could appear as an insensitive line of questioning of a female accuser from a group of all white men.
Who wrote the questions? How often will those OLD white mail senators huddle with Ms Mitchell to advise her what they want asked? If these huddles occur will we get to hear what is said?
What I hear the GOP Senators saying is that they cannot be fair to a woman. I hope the female portion of the population pays close attention and votes accordingly on Nov 6.
Here’s an example of her work circa 2011:
She’s an experienced sex crimes prosecutor? Shouldn’t she be questioning Kavanaugh?
Democrats, who are going to do their own questioning, will have 5 minutes per senator. I hope that the prosecutor will have to go in 5-minute gulps, too, and not be allotted a solid hour (well, 55 minutes–5 minutes for each of the 11 Republicans) to grill Dr. Blasey Ford.
Nice try with the obvious and superficial attempt to improve the “optics,” fellers, but you’re still screwed either way. Fail with Kavanaugh and you look like weak failed failures and your base tends more to stay home. Put him on the bench and women concerned for their human dignity rise up. Probably shouldn’t have nominated this huge walk-in skeleton closet, but what’s done is done. Idiots.