The Senate’s Conundrum: What To Do About Ford
If the public cannot recognize what the Democrats are doing with their dirty tricks, we are an ignorant people (“End of Innocence,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, Sept. 21).
Any woman who has been sexually abused remembers every detail of the event — except for Christine Blasey Ford, who doesn’t know when her alleged abuse happened and never told anyone about it until 2012, when she told her therapist, but apparently didn’t mention Brett Kavanaugh.
As a woman, I don’t believe Professor Ford. I also believe she hurts the credibility of the #MeToo movement, which is now becoming a farce. L. J. Larsen Staten Island
Between Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kirsten Gillibrand, I don’t know who dishonors the #MeToo movement more.
They are using this movement to slander a man who has not been proven to be anything but patriotic, decent and fair. Why can’t the American public see through this deceit?
Just the fact that Feinstein waited from July until September to present this information should show everyone it was a ploy against President Trump and his nominee.
Gillibrand jumping on the bandwagon is par for the course. Both women should be ashamed. #MeToo was getting somewhere for real victims. Donna Orosz New Hyde Park
There’s nothing Kavanaugh can do that any other federal judge can’t. Trump has a long list of conservative judges who could replace him.
Kavanaugh is damaged goods, and putting him on the top court will leave him tarnished forever, so bump him and just move on to the next name on Trump’s list (but maybe pick a female, so it’s much less likely she sexually harassed anyone).
Why waste so much time on Kavanaugh or another controversial candidate? Kalan Wood-Vincent Manhattan How does a good man clear his name? How does a good man prove a negative — that he wasn’t at a nonspecific place 36 years ago and that he didn’t assault a woman who can’t remember many specifics of the event, other than that she was traumatized?
Enough is enough. The vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court should proceed. Laurella Cross Irvine, Calif.
The last-minute allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh highlights a problem with our federal court confirmation process.
Before any federal judge is given a lifetime appointment, the judge should be confirmed by the Senate for a shorter term — perhaps six years.
The Senate would schedule a vote at the end of the six-year term for the lifetime job. This would provide senators with a chance to review the judge’s performance.
A mistake that lasts six years is better than enabling a judge to make decisions that will impact generations. Paul Feiner Greenburgh
If anyone is still wondering why Trump won the election, all you have to do is watch the coverage about Kavanaugh.
The Democratic Party has sunk to a new low. The allegation against Kavanaugh lacks specifics, which makes it virtually impossible to prove innocence or guilt.
The Democrats make me, and countless other voting taxpayers, sick. Patrick Phelan Sebastian, Fla.
I don’t believe Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh for one minute.
Her allegation is little more than a “recovered memory” — inherently unreliable — which is being given more weight than it deserves. It’s trial by ambush. Where has she been for the past 30 years? Scott Westcott Clifton Park
As a woman, I applaud and back the #MeToo movement. But what is happening right now highlights the left’s hysteria and the extent to which Democrats will use a woman as a pawn to promote their agenda of obstruction.
Kavanaugh, an impeccable judge for many years, deserves better than to be tainted and destroyed by Feinstein and the like. Geraldine Manno Yonkers