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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
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This situation may have a silver lining. We'll finally ask the question, "Should accusations, and defenses, be believed just because they've been raised? Or should we recall why we have a thing called due process?" (And that a form of it, relaxed as it must be, should be applied even in political matters like this.)
I don't think 65 random friends of Kavanaugh have anything to say about this story. They weren't there. His one friend who claims to have been there is the only person who'd have relevant evidence if this were in a court of law.
I don't think 200 of the professor's friends have anything to say about this situation for exactly the same reason.
I understand why Feinstein used this as she did. If you believe Kavanaugh is a true threat on the Court, you have to do what you have to do. And, uh, Merrick Garland.
But the litigation of these issues by consideration of irrelevant comments from third parties? This is degradation... a sign of a country in which rational thinking and reverence for logic are fading in importance, replaced by moral panic.
