If I were on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as the Republican men hide behind her skirts , I would want to get Rachel Mitchell or any other "experienced sex-crime prosecutor" on public record as to whether or not she would try to make a judgment on the merits of a case, to decide to not pursue it or to bring it to trial, WITHOUT A THOROUGH POLICE INVESTIGATION OF THE INCIDENT.
If Rachel Mitchell were honest, she would, of course say she would never try to figure out who was telling the truth in the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh without the kind of investigation that the FBI routinely does in the matter of judicial nominations but which her employers, the cowardy Republican men who will be hiding behind her, have refused to allow AND WHICH WHEN HE WAS ASKED, BRETT KAVANAUGH REFUSED TO CALL FOR.
If I were in the place of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse or one of the better men or women on that committee I would insist on an answer from Rachel Mitchell on that matter because it is the first question that is necessary to get her on record as giving if Brett Kavanaugh is to get what he claimed to want, I've read, 17 times on FOX Monday night, "a fair process". If he is innocent he certainly has nothing to fear from an FBI investigation, I'm sure that's what he would say to someone who was being investigated for a relatively minor crime that could see them go to prison and he's in little danger of that, he's demanding a promotion.
In the little that I've seen about Rachel Mitchell, one of the things she is quoted as saying is:
“People think that children would tell right away and that they would tell everything that happened to them. In reality children often keep this secret for years, sometimes into their adulthood, sometimes forever.”
I would ask her if she would include the women who are coming forward now, when they are middle-aged and perhaps for the first time in their lives feel compelled by their conscience and sense of moral responsibility, to tell what Brett Kavanaugh and his good buddy Mark Judge or others in his male-bonding clique did to them. I would ask her that in the course of the hearings, if she is standing in for Chuck Grassley and his fellow cowards standing behind her, having hired her to speak for them, then certainly Democrats on the committee have the right to ask her questions. If she wouldn't answer them, that would be as revealing as Brett Kavanaugh's refusals to answer questions during the previous sessions of the hearings. If Grassley and her employers would refuse to allow her to answer, that shows that Brett Kavanaugh doesn't want a fair process, he wants exactly the one rigged in his favor that he's had. That process is the same process that has been rigged in his favor since his prep-school years.
The hearing tomorrow is set up to be a rigged and dishonest farce designed to do one thing, to give Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski a fig leaf to hide their shame in voting for Brett Kavanaugh, that is the only reason for it, that's why the Republicans are making sure that fig leaf is as brief as possible. They should not be allowed to hide behind it anymore than the male Republicans on the Judiciary Committee should be able to hide behind Rachel Mitchell.
I would also demand that Rachel Mitchell produce to all members of the committee a written report of the matter in the manner of a prosecutor of sex crimes giving her reasons for her own conclusions as to the merits of the case. She shouldn't be allowed to hide behind this farce, either. She should have to put on paper what she either does or pretends to believe it shows.
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