However, Lisa Banks is an attorney for the same law firm who is also involved in representing Ford. They both work for the law firm Katz, Marshall, and Banks.
Getty Lisa Banks sitting behind Christine Ford. Who was the woman in the black blazer who sat behind Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing gathering Ford’s testimony into her allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh? The woman is Lisa Banks, an attorney for Christine Ford.
Attorneys Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich are sitting with her at the table. Behind her is attorney Lisa Banks and Blasey's friend Keith Koegler who submitted an affadavit that Blasey Ford told him about the attack prior to Kavanaugh's nomination. Here’s what you need to know:
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).
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.
Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court in October of 2018, after Blasey Ford and two other women accused him of sexual misconduct, which he denied. The Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh on a 50-48 vote.