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Kavanaugh: (FALSE) Trial and (GRAVE) Error


                                 Is this what unbiased judicial temperament looks like?


October 6, 2018


I watched the speech delivered live by Sen. Collins on Friday; then I reread it several times.

Of course Kavanaugh--like all of us--has the precious right to be "presumed innocent until proven guilty." This is the standard in a criminal trial. But Kavanaugh wasn't on trial for criminal behavior: he was applying for a lifetime job on the highest court in our country. So Collins can depend on platitudes that do not apply in this case, only if she agrees to put into play ALL the aspects of a criminal trial. That means evidence would be allowed to be gathered and presented against the accused, and both sides would operate under the same rules of fairness-- which didn't happen here.

These hearings were controlled by the Republican Judiciary Committee. Only 24/7/365 press coverage of their shenanigans prevented a totally paralyzed FBI "investigation."  In the end, "victorious" Republicans claim, "NO CORROBORATION," when the White House-- dictating the limits of the FBI probe-- prevented the interviewing of dozens of potential witnesses trying desperately to be heard and present their experiences/observations with Kavanaugh to the FBI who were denied access.

Notice that Collins-- despite her lengthy "presumption of innocence" theme-- ignored Kvanaugh’s lack of judicial temperament, exhibited before millions last week in blazing color and deafening volume. He threatened-- clearly and for all to understand -- that "what goes around comes around." He specifically named Democrats and the Clintons as his enemy, attacked sitting (Democrat) senators face-to-face, and behaved like the "ugly drunk" college student he is repeatedly described as being.

And that is another thing Collins ignored: Kavanaugh's potential and oft-alluded-to alcoholism.

Kavanaugh couldn't say enough about how much he liked - and still likes- "Beer." My guess is that by now he has graduated to drinks stronger than "beer," though drinking beer exclusively does not preclude being an alcoholic. In any event, studies show excessive drinking and sexually inappropriate behavior often go hand-in-hand.

Men like Kavanaugh, are, when young, and continue to be, as men, sloppy, clumsy, aggressive, and often impotent sexual beasts. Now Kavanaugh has every possibility to be a drunk, sloppy, clumsy, unreasonable, aggressive, and vengeful justice on the SCOTUS bench as his anger and alcohol-tinged tirades demonstrate.

I, for one, don't want someone with a "wet brain" as it is called in the alcohol treatment field, making Supreme Court decisions. (I worked from 1970-75 with Dr. Alan Willoughby - author of The Alcohol Troubled Person- Known and Unknown. I wrote the first RI grant for what are now widespread alcohol treatment programs in the workplace to identify and treat "troubled employees." That grant was for $375K in 1970 – or more like $2.4 million today.)

Finally-- and this is the tragic un-ringable bell-- Republicans often cite as a sympathy issue for Kavanaugh the damage done to him, his wife and children by the debate about his fitness for the bench. Reasonable people share that concern.

Kavanaugh will rise above the pain with alcohol and a relish for the job he wanted all his life - deserving or not. What no one cites is the residual damage to a wife and two young girls who will-- for the rest of their lives-- experience daily scorn and bullying from millions in this country who feel that their husband/father, through his history, has no right to make life-altering decisions about average citizens' lives.

Every news story about every Kavanaugh vote/opinion from now on will be up for debate and will be a reminder that these three young women are related to a lying, impaired, intemperate monster. I predict that a few years from now that innocent wife and those two young innocent girls-- God help them-- will be showing visible signs of what their victimization and sacrifice at the altar of Kavanaugh's unbridled ambition will have wrought. I want to be wrong, but mark those words!

One last thought on Collins who originally ran for the Senate from Maine on a clear platform and pledge of term limits. She said many times she would serve two terms then leave, and that every senator ought to do that. By that pledge she should have retired more than a decade ago. So much for her credibility

Collins, like too many politicians, has become a political whore. She tries to kiss the GOP leadership's collective butt while articulating a "presumption of innocence" reminder that doesn't even apply in this non-criminal-trial setting. If it did, and if he were on trial, then We the People (represented by Dr. Ford as the chief and highly credible accuser) would also be entitled to a fair trial, the ability to present witnesses, equal access to those delivering the verdict, and a "fair and impartial" jury of peers - none of which existed in this case.

Women especially are angrier than I have ever seen them and with "hell hath no fury" force, are about to slap the face of an entire nation-- and beyond.
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Mary Ann Sorrentino, (thatmaryann@yahoo.com), writes from Cranston, RI and Hillsboro Beach, Fla, is a monthly contributor to The Providence Journal and appears as a freelance writer in The Keene Sentinel and other publications. From 1977-1987 she was the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island overseeing that state’s first abortion clinic in the most Catholic state in America. She was publicly declared excommunicated for that work in 1985.

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