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Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice came swiftly at the end. President Trump declared to Kavanaugh, ‘You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent’ during the public swearing in ceremony held in the East Wing of the White House.

Kavanaugh endured three months of investigation by the Senate, with the last three weeks being embroiled in a contentious battle regarding the sexual assault accusations from Dr. Ford.  The final FBI reports they interviewed six people in connection with Dr. Ford, and none could corroborate her testimony. In a different sexual assault allegation that involved Ramirez, she and two other “witnesses” were interviewed as well, and they found nothing useful.

The senators were allowed to read the one and only allowable FBI report in a secure room, no electronic devices were allowed, and if notes were taken, they could not take those notes with them after leaving the room.  All the GOP senators came away with their belief strengthened that there was no proof of misconduct.

Since Kavanaugh has 30 years of working as a judge, and no reports of misconduct reported by women who worked with him during that time, I feel that his confirmation is the correct decision. If this legacy was wiped out by uncorroborated accusations, then we have gone against our “innocent until proven guilty” that our criminal law system is based upon.

This is also in line with Deut 19:15 “One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”  Since the senators did not see this in the last FBI report, this should end the whole matter right now.

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/08/brett-kavanaugh-ready-supreme-court-debut-rocky-confirmation/1568848002/ and the links inside that article.

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My homework is to write about a news article and comment on it. While looking for a news story, I struggled with which source to use.  I found this one, and the picture above is more reflective of my feelings about certain media sources, but the article I found does sound like a story I would trust.

At LA Times, an article appeared about women that do support Brett Kavanaugh. They quoted five women from different parts of United States.  Each of them talked about Christine Ford’s allegations and felt that though Ford experienced an assault, they weren’t convinced that the assailant could be identified as Kavanaugh, and her memory could very well be faulty. Some of the women who were interviewed were assault victims themselves.

I agree with them that the timing of this revelation is suspect, politically-motivated last attempt to derail a man.  I believe Kavanaugh can uphold our constitution as our nation’s founders intended and this runs against the leanings of progressive thought.  

Kavanaugh has been vetted by the FBI for each of his judicial appointments. Why haven’t those investigations come up with anything more substantial?

Shortly after the first report of the sexual allegation came out, 65 women came to Kavanaugh’s defense. They knew him personally from their high school days.  

I believe that major media outlets have become the judge and jury and have not listened to women who have come to Kavanaugh’s defense.

Though I believe that men in all vocations can hide their past and seem like they are innocent, I truly believe this is an accusation pointed at the wrong man.  If there’s a pattern started in high school, it would be evident in later life, and would have showed up in the extreme vetting that would be done for any candidate for the Supreme Court.  Trump and his aides would be looking for any red flags that would cause problems with the nomination.  Not only that, the FBI haven’t found anything.  The breaking news today is that Trump asked the FBI to go back 36 years ago and interview his high school friends and that is a very unusual procedure for any job opportunity.  That sounds like Trump is confident of his choice.

Who has clean hands?  No one, but if the vetting of the supreme court candidate didn’t find anything for the past 10 years as the FBI has done and then an even more thorough vetting by the White House, then it’s a good possibility that Kavanaugh is worthy of being our next Supreme Court Justice.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-women-kavanaugh-20180929-story.html#

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-65-women-came-to-kavanaughs-defense-in-matter-of-hours/2018/09/19/55f67696-bc73-11e8-8243-f3ae9c99658a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.96b68a8be4b1

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