The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of NATIONWIDE enforcement of the SAFE THIRD COUNTRY policy. The policy denies asylum to anyone that passes through another country on their way to the U.S. without seeking protection there first
As I wrote last October, here’s why Ramirez’s allegation was dubious: Deborah Ramirez is the Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s who now claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself as a college freshman at a party. Ramirez’s claim was already dubious because (1) named eyewitnesses deny the allegation and (2) Ramirez herself wasn’t sure in recent weeks if Kavanaugh had done what she now alleges. “Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself,” the New York Times reported. Ramirez was only willing to make the allegation, the New Yorker reported, after “six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney.” Pogrebin and Kelly write that a couple of students say they had heard about the alleged incident in the days after it allegedly occurred, but the authors provide no indication there is any first-hand witness to corroborate the allegation. We already knew before Kavanaugh was confirmed last October that the “corroborating” source for Ramirez’s claim, classmate Kenneth Appold, was not present when the alleged incident occurred, but Appold told the New Yorker he was “one-hundred-percent-sure” he heard about it from an eyewitness. Shortly before Kavanaugh was confirmed, the New Yorker reported that Appold’s supposed eyewitness “said that he had no memory of the incident.” 140
Maybe Pogrebin and Kelly’s book is stronger than their essay. But I’m skeptical. “In the end they turn up no smoking gun,” Hanna Rosin writes in her New York Times review of the book.
Update 9/16: Late yesterday, the New York Times “updated” their article to note that it initially “did not include” the information that the alleged victim did not recall the alleged assault.
chancer_returns: The Democrats relentless targeting of Brett Kavanaugh is the thing that will move a lot of independents and centrists to Trump and Republicans
chancer_returns: The Democrats relentless targeting of Brett Kavanaugh is the thing that will move a lot of independents and centrists to Trump and Republicans
Yeah, I think the Dems true colors are coming thru..
mikey4691: What happened to Cossack, Reb?? Looks like she made a couple of controversial threads.. I hope it's just a temporary ban, if that's what it is...
she deleted n went to mewe,the real trouble is the FED robbing us blind n D C gets their cut/s dems n rinos.
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