Senate Judiciary Committee Responds to Ford's Demands 'We Determine Which Witnesses to Call

As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has rescheduled the planned Monday hearing to Thursday to hear testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

Christine Ford has made an uncorroborated accusation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago at a drunken high school pool party that no one else, including the four people she claims were at the party, remembers.

The negotiations are ongoing as Christine Ford’s attorneys continue to make outrageous demands–Ford thinks she runs the Senate and determines which witnesses and how many witnesses to call forward to testify.

The Senate Judiciary Committee responded to Ford’s outrageous demands Sunday and said it is the Committee that decides which witnesses and how many witnesses to call forward.

This is non-negotiable says the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Judiciary Cmte GOPers to Ford team: Thank you for the call. We are pleased that you accepted the Chairman’s invitation for Dr. Ford to testify on Thursday, 9/27/2018 at 10 am in an open hearing in Dirksen 226, in accordance with the parameters that we outlined in our emails below

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 23, 2018

Judiciary Cmte to Ford counsel: The Chairman asked me to relay again that he will do everything in his power to provide a safe, comfortable, and dignified forum for Dr. Ford to testify. I have noted the issues that you raised on the call.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 23, 2018

The Judiciary Committee said it’s up to the Committee to decided the order of witnesses called.

Judiciary Cmte to Ford team: The Committee determines which witnesses to call, how many witnesses to call, in what order to call them, and who will question them. These are non-negotiable.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 23, 2018

Democrats know if they delay the Kavanaugh vote for another week he will not be confirmed before the next Supreme Court session.

Make no mistake about it. Democrats are using Christine Ford to prevent Trump from placing a justice on the Supreme Court.

As usual, the GOP shows how spineless they are by capitulating to the Democrats after they orchestrated an 11th hour “me too” ambush of Judge Kavanaugh.