Lawyer: Lack of prior allegations promising
Bridget Fay of Shrewsbury is a lawyer and on the board of directors of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. She shared her reasoning for supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination with the Herald’s Mary Markos:
“He is an eminently qualified jurist and his opinions have been outstanding.
It’s very notable that the Democrats are dragging up questions about teen drinking games instead of his judicial temperaments and his opinions.
One of the most important points he made that hasn’t gotten a lot of traction was that when he was on Ken Starr’s team back in the late 1990s, substantial amounts of money were offered up to anyone who would come forward with reports of impropriety or allegations against any member of the legal team. Several members had people come forward against them. That didn’t happen to Brett Kavanaugh.
It really brings you to question if this didn’t come up 36 years ago, if it didn’t come up 20 years ago with $1 million on the line, is this something we should be basing a decision off of?
I’m not saying anything bad about Dr. Ford, she seems like a lovely person, but she’s unable to offer evidence that can be corroborated — it doesn’t even seem like she can demonstrate she even knew Kavanaugh. There are cases of mistaken identity, memories getting mixed up in the mind, but absent of proof that they even knew each other it wouldn’t be proper to take those allegations into consideration.
Something else I think people haven’t really considered was that Justice Gorsuch also had a very tough nomination. ... It is telling that both of these eminently qualified justices, both wonderfully qualified jurists, had extraordinary nomination fights and I think that shows the partisan nature of what is going on here.”