So now a woman named Deborah Ramirez has come forth and accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually abusing her (exposing himself) at a drinking party when they were both attending Yale. The allegation is troubling, to be sure, but given what has been described in the New Yorker Magazine about it, the whole thing is shakier than the accusation of Christine Blasey Ford. By all means, I urge you to read the New Yorker piece in its entirety and decide for yourself.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez
Here is an article by Fox News which picks apart the story.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/24/critics-condemn-new-yorker-over-uncorroborated-kavanaugh-story-lazy-at-best-slimy-at-worst.html
Let me, as a former criminal investigator add my own two cents worth. As with the Ford allegations, I have no idea whether this is true or not, and I regard the alleged behavior as atrocious.
Like Ford, Ramirez is a liberal activist.
Like Ford, Ramirez concedes she was living a life a bit on the wild side during those years in question.
Ramirez admits she drank heavily and sometimes blacked out.
Only in the past days, after jogging her memory (with the help of a Democrat lawyer), has she finally concluded (she thinks) that it was Kavanaugh who committed the act in question.
Much of the rest of the "corroborating" testimony comes from people who heard it 2nd-3rd hand (hearsay).
In other words, as things now stand, there is no proof one way or another.
So are we now going to have to delay this farce yet again so Ramirez can negotiate the terms of her testifying before the Senate committee? Poor old Chuck Grassley.
Poor old America.
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