But wait... THERE'S MORE!

2seaoat wrote:Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Trump, tweeted Sunday evening that he represented a woman "with credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh and [high school friend] Mark Judge."

They cheated on their biology test.

Deus X wrote:His nomination will be withdrawn before it ever gets to a vote in the Senate.

And what's more, there won't be another nomination that gets through committee before the November election. Democrats are going to extract some serious payback for Merrick Garland...   and rightly so.

Deus X wrote:Kavanaugh is toast. Even if these claims are exaggerated, when considered with the rest of the stuff about him, he'll withdraw his nomination rather than have all this play out in the media. Avenatti is too shrewd a lawyer to float completely bogus accusations--my guess is that there's enough here to sink him.

RealLindaL wrote:
Agreed re Avenatti -- and I dearly hope you're right that the nominee is toast. Any prediction on how long that might take?  Remember:Trump will be advising Kavanaugh to just continue to deny, deny, deny.

zsomething wrote:I'll admit to having a bias against frat rats (spent a lot of my college years brawling with the fuckers) so it wouldn't surprise me much if things like this happened.   I just hope they can produce more evidence, but that's going to be tough.

If Trump really gave a damn about the country (and he absolutely doesn't) he'd  respect that we're a pretty evenly split nation and put in someone more moderate.   I know elections have consequences, but Obama (much to the consternation of a lot of the farther left) never really took advantage of that.  Sotomayor is hardly any kind of radical, and neither was Garland, who didn't even get a hearing.  

Trump's only bucking for Kavanaugh because he's sure he'd give him a pass on his crimes.  That's why Kavanaugh suddenly showed up at the top of the list when he wasn't on the previous lists at all.  Trump's previous top pick (can't remember her name) was a woman who was a rabid theocrat, wanting to kill Roe Vs. Wade and basically institute a Baptard version of Sharia Law.  She'd be even more divisive.   Trump's too obsessed with pleasing his cultists to worry about actually serving the needs of a diverse, divided country.  That's going to cause a big backlash when Republicans are out again... and, partisan as I am, I'm not fond of backlash politics no matter who's doing it.   But, overreach breeds it, and that's what we're gonna end up with.

EmeraldGhost wrote:I hope for Democrats sake this Avenatti guy can bring forth some credible witnesses.  The more and more outrageous, obscene, and unsubstantiated 11th hour allegations that get levied against him, the more conservative media will be able to paint them with skepticism as just a left wing attempt to derail the nomination with false slander. This could actually backfire on the Democrats in the eyes of a lot of the public.

Kavanaugh emphatically denied Ford's claim against him, telling MacCallum that he was a virgin through high school and for "many years after."

RealLindaL wrote:We shall see.

Two months after a former Baylor University fraternity president was indicted on charges he sexually assaulted another student in 2016, a prosecutor offered him probation without informing the alleged victim or her family until the plea offer was turned down.

An attorney for the woman and her parents filed a notice in court this week objecting to a subsequent plea bargain offered to Jacob Walter Anderson that includes deferred probation on a reduced charge and no sex offender registration. They are urging 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother to reject the plea agreement and send the case to trial.

Anderson had been set to plead no contest Sept. 10 to a reduced charge of unlawful restraint in exchange for prosecutor Hilary LaBorde’s promise to drop four sexual assault counts and to recommend deferred probation and counseling. Anderson would not be required to register as a sex offender under the terms of the plea agreement.

His plea date was postponed this week because of high-profile trials that were set that day and to accommodate the victim’s family, who live in California and who want to be in court. A new plea date has not been rescheduled.

Vic Feazell, an attorney for the woman and her parents, said this week that the family learned of the proposed plea agreement between LaBorde and Anderson by reading an Aug. 23 story in the Tribune-Herald.

“Since the inception of the case, the victim and her parents were told by the prosecutor that the case would go to trial and that it definitely would not be plea bargained down without the consultation and consent of the victim,” Feazell wrote in the notice. “They were assured it was not a question of guilty/innocence, but of punishment only.”

When told court documents show LaBorde offered Anderson 10 years probation and a $5,000 fine in exchange for his plea to sexual assault in July 2016, Feazell said, “Oh, my. We were lied to from the get-go.”

In an email Feazell provided to the Tribune-Herald, Feazell wrote to District Attorney Abel Reyna in August 2016 that the family was unhappy about finding out an offer of probation had been made without consulting them, but said they were relieved Anderson turned it down.

“I explained that there were many factors that could have led to the offer and I had glowing things to say about Hilary. I know she’s tough,” Feazell wrote to Reyna.

The victim’s mother said in a statement provided by Feazell that they are upset LaBorde did not inform them before the initial offer in 2016 or the subsequent offer this year.

“She never told us about that (first) one, and she had not even spoken to the witnesses or even read the Title IX report yet,” the woman’s mother said. “She never bothered to put one ounce of effort into this case. She led (her daughter) on and put her through this knowing she was going to betray her the whole time.”

LaBorde said Friday that she cannot comment on pending matters.

“I’m disappointed and I hope the judge refuses to accept this atrocious plea bargain,” Feazell said.

Anderson, 23, of Garland, former president of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter at Baylor, was expelled after a university investigation.

Included as exhibits with the filing earlier this week are emails between Feazell and the woman and her parents. In an email dated Aug. 28 to Feazell, the woman describes how upset she is about the proposed plea agreement.

“This guy violently raped me multiple times, choked me and when I blacked out, he dumped me face down on the ground and left me to die,” the woman’s email states. “When I woke up aspirating on my own vomit, my friends immediately took me to the hospital and we reported it to the Waco police, Baylor police and Title IX office.”

The woman wrote that LaBorde seems more concerned about Anderson getting counseling than a rape conviction.

“I have been waiting two-and-a-half years for this trial,” her email states. “I have been through hell and back, and my life has been forever turned upside down. I feel like I should have the right to the trial for the four counts of sexual assault the grand jury indicted him on. … I was furious and devastated when I read the newspaper article that she was basically dropping the sexual assault charges.”

The woman reported she was at a fraternity party in South Waco and someone handed her punch and told her to drink it, according to court records. Shortly thereafter, she became disoriented and Anderson took her to a secluded part of the grounds behind a tent so she could get some air. However, once they were away from the crowd, he sexually assaulted her, according to records.

zsomething wrote:Okay, if Kavanaugh is claiming he was a virgin, and was in a college fraternity, now I don't want him for a whole different reason -- because he's an idiot.   Who the hell would join a fraternity and not get laid?!?   That's pretty much all those idiotic latent boy-fests are for!   That'd just be weird.   "Oh, no,  I paid my dues to join this very expensive golf club, but I don't golf... I just like they sandwiches they serve in the clubhouse there!"   Come aaaaahhhhhhhhn, motherfucker, nobody's gonna believe that shit!  Why would you even?   Did he just wanna surround himself with guys who'd give him hell bullying him while he stalwartly saved himself for marriage?  He picked the wrong freakin' culture.


 "Don't get the wrong idea about I Tappa Kegg, those 'parties' we were rumored to have were just spirited Bible study groups that sometimes got a bit boisterous when someone got enthusiastic about Matthew 20!  Okay, sometimes maybe the Pat Boone records would get a little loud, but who hasn't gotten a bit excited from time to time?  I mean, 'Michael Row The Boat Ashore,' that's a peppy song!  And women?  By no means!   We called them all 'mother' and would not be in the presence of one without a chaperone!  And that's to even speak to them on the telephone!  Excuse me, now, I feel myself about to ascend into heaven upon a ray of light.   Aaaahhhhlaaaaylllluuuuu!"

This guy's defense is just horseshit.   If he wants to claim he didn't try to rape anybody, fine, then claim that... but don't try to sell us that he was in a party college's fraternity but he was Wally freakin' Cleaver about it, and it was all a big Archie comic where he never so much as brushed against a titty.   Sock-hoppin' motherfucker.  That's just insulting, thinking anybody's gonna buy that.   I went to fraternity parties as roadie/security for a friend's band, and they're about as far from "wholesome family goodtimes" as anything gets.   Next he's gonna try to produce a bunch of afghans he knitted with his bros, I guess.  Throw them in with his bullshit "calendars."