Courtesy of Pam Martens
Brett Kavanaugh
Yesterday, two of the most trusted reporters in America, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, reported that Senate Democrats are investigating a second sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The second charge comes from a woman who attended Yale University when Kavanaugh was a freshman there in the 1983-84 school year. The women, Deborah Ramirez, told the reporters that “she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”
Like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to accuse Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when she was 15 and he was 17, Ramirez is also calling for the FBI to investigate the incident. Dr. Ford, a professor in clinical psychology in California, is expected to testify this coming Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a public hearing.
Former Federal prosecutors have been regularly appearing on news programs stating that while investigating sexual assault is not the role of the FBI, re-opening the background check that it did on Brett Kavanaugh is not only necessary, but critically needed, under the circumstances. Neither Chuck Grassley, the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee that is conducting the confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh, nor the White House that requested the original background check, have been willing to re-open the FBI’s investigation into Kavanaugh – leading millions of Americans to lose faith in the process of putting a judge in a lifetime position on the highest court in the nation.
Farrow and Mayer note that by his freshman year at Yale, “Kavanaugh was eighteen, and legally an adult.” If the Ramirez allegation is true, that would mean that Kavanaugh perjured himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee write the reporters because he “swore under oath that as a legal adult he had never ‘committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature.’ ”
While The New Yorker report could not find eyewitnesses who would confirm the Ramirez allegation, a classmate who was not present when the alleged assault happened told the reporters that he was “ ‘one hundred per cent sure’ ” that he had been told either on the evening of the incident or “in the next day or two” that “Kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to Ramirez.”
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