Federalist Society Involved Again in the Botched Kavanaugh Investigation
A new documentary will reveal that another instance of Justice Kavanaugh exposing himself at Yale was reported, but that an intentional scheme of mistaken identity was used for exoneration.
In November of 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Republican Chuck Grassley, released a 28-page report that concluded that there was “no verifiable evidence” to substantiate any of the sexual assault claims made against then-Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Take special note of the committee’s choice in using the word “verifiable” in their summation. It was a choice meant to be as intentionally manipulative as Kavanaugh’s crocodile tears during his testimony.
At the crux of the report’s glorified dismissal of any wrongdoing, in favor of Kavanaugh, was the unverified and thus erroneous claim that one of Kavanaugh’s accusers, Deborah Ramirez, was “likely” mistaken when she alleged that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her. The reason for mistake, according to the report, was that another Yale student was allegedly known for exposing himself in the exact same ways in which Kavanaugh had been acused. Take special note of the use of the word “likely” with regard to Ramirez. It is a lawyer’s trick that is meant to denote confidence and assuredness in a statement when one cannot conclusively, and legally, provide proof.
This new theory of mistaken identity was concocted by a Colorado-based attorney named Joseph C Smith Jr, according to a non-redacted copy of a 2018 email obtained by the Guardian. The concept was sold to the Judiciary Committee by the committee’s then-lead counsel, Mike Davis, a friend and former colleague of Smith.
Like Kavanaugh, Smith graduated from Yale and also worked on the legal team that represented George W Bush in the 2000 presidential recount in Florida. While the name of the person making the submission of the allegation was redacted, we are able to discern that it was Smith who made this report because it includes the following note with the allegation: “I submitted this same information to a staff member of the Senate judiciary committee, Mike Davis, because I know him, and he suggested I also submit it to you.”
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