{"id":25977,"date":"2018-09-19T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25977"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:01:53","slug":"intercept-report-reveals-senate-ignored-federal-court-employees-willing-to-testify-against-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/09\/19\/intercept-report-reveals-senate-ignored-federal-court-employees-willing-to-testify-against-kavanaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercept Report Reveals Senate Ignored Federal Court Employees Willing to Testify Against Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democracy Now <\/em>has the interview Intercept Report Reveals Senate Ignored Federal Court Employees Willing to Testify Against Kavanaugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nAMY GOODMAN: <\/em>Well, explain Kavanaugh\u2019s relationship with Judge Kozinski.<\/p>\n

RYAN GRIM: <\/em>Right, it\u2019s very tight. So, not only was he his clerk in the early ’90s, he became close friends with him afterwards. And he and Kozinski vetted the clerks that went to Anthony Kennedy in the Supreme Court, which is one of the most powerful positions in the legal world, to vet Supreme Court justices. Kavanaugh’s own clerk last year was Kozinski\u2019s middle son. So these are very close people. And so\u2014<\/p>\n

AMY GOODMAN: <\/em>And Kavanaugh was recommended to be Anthony Kennedy\u2019s clerk, which he was, by Judge Kozinski.<\/p>\n

RYAN GRIM: <\/em>Yes. And then Kennedy recommended to Trump that Kavanaugh be his replacement. Without Kozinski, you don\u2019t have Kavanaugh. And so, he has distanced himself, in testimony and in public statements, from Kozinski\u2019s behavior. Interestingly, Mazie Hirono followed up to him in written questions\u2014<\/p>\n

AMY GOODMAN: <\/em>The senator from Hawaii.<\/p>\n

RYAN GRIM: <\/em>Senator Mazie Hirono said, \u201cPlease search your email and check to see if you got any sexually inappropriate emails from Kozinski, because to know him for 20 years like this and to not have is very strange.\u201d His [Kavanaugh’s] reply was\u2014instead of the wall of denial that he gave in his testimony, his reply to that was \u201cI do not remember receiving any sexually inappropriate emails.\u201d And that\u2019s the end of his written reply.<\/p>\n

And so, now, according to Sanai, there are employers who would say, \u201cThat\u2019s nonsense. I know firsthand that Kavanaugh was a witness to\u2026\u201d\u2014not that Kavanaugh approved of the behavior, but that he\u2019s lying about this. And his credibility is now central to the accusation of the attempted rape.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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