The envelope contained notes to Ford from women outside the hearing room who were unable to be seated inside during her testimony, Jackson Lee’s spokesperson Robin Chand told us in an email, “Simply, what was passed were unopened stationery notes to counsel for Dr. Ford from women who wanted to enter the hearing room but were not allowed to enter the hearing room.”
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Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct before he was confirmed in 2018 as a Supreme Court justice, said Thursday that the FBI’s investigation into her allegations was a “sham and a major institutional failure.”. The attorneys' comments came after the FBI sent a letter to Sens.
The attorneys' comments came after the FBI sent a letter to Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), who wrote to FBI Director Christpher Wray two years ago with questions about how the investigation into Kavanaugh was conducted.
Notably, the letter said that the tip line for Kavanaugh’s investigation received over 4,500 tips — and that this was the first time the bureau had set up such a line.
Senator Tom Tillis (R-N.C.) has suggested that Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Kavanaugh might warrant some investigation in light of what Katz let slip about Ford’s motives, asserting that it “does seem to undermine what we all believed was a legitimate traumatic experience in [Blasey Ford’s] life.”
Given the mental prowess Katz failed to display when questioned about her evident conflict of interest, it’s perhaps not surprising that Blasey Ford had another lawyer also officially by her side the day she testified. And, when it came time for the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to question Ford, we learned that both attorneys were working pro bono.
On 26 September 2018, yet another attempt to discredit Kavanaugh’s accusers started to gain traction, but this time it was promulgated by mainstream media outlets such as TMZ in addition to the regular lineup of internet trolls.
In September 2018, a number of attempts were made to smear the reputations or motivations of various women who came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Baseless rumors were circulated claiming that various photographs showed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford getting blackout drunk ( false ), that Ford had also accused Neil Gorsuch of sexual assault ( false ), that photographs showed Ford with alt-right boogeyman George Soros ( false ), and that Deborah Ramirez had won a fellowship from Soros’s Open Society Foundation (surprise, that one’s false too).