Chuck Grassley Just Moved Against One of Brett Kavanaugh’s Accusers

I’ll allow it.

Well, the circus surrounding now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh isn’t over, yet.

I mean, sure. He’s been confirmed. He is, as I pointed out, now one of the venerated members of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The initial hope was that things would settle down and we could turn our attentions to other pressing matters.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has identified some loose ends that need tying up, however.

Grassley announced on Thursday that he is referring one of the women who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, Julie Swetnick, as well as her attorney, Michael Avenatti to the Department of Justice for a potential criminal investigation, in regards to false statements made to Congress during the Kavanaugh circus.

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Avenatti, by the way, is also the attorney for former Trump mistress, porn star Stormy Daniels.

Grassley said that in addition to making false statements, he is asking for the Justice Department to look into whether the two sought to obstruct his panel’s investigation of the allegations against Kavanaugh.

“The law prohibits such false statements to Congress and obstruction of congressional committee investigations. For the law to work, we can’t just brush aside potential violations. I don’t take lightly making a referral of this nature, but ignoring this behavior will just invite more of it in the future,” Grassley said in a statement.

Swetnick’s claim was that Brett Kavanaugh was present at a party where she was gang raped.

It wasn’t that he participated, but that he was there.

OH – and she also claimed that she kept going back to the parties and observed multiple incidents of gang rape.

No. She didn’t tell anybody, and yes, she kept going back. I have to assume it’s because she’s a bit of a voyeur. Or maybe her views on gang rape only become urgent when it is politically convenient.

Who knows? It apparently wasn’t important to her, back then.

Was that harsh?

SorryNotSorry. The entire incident strained every rational argument and all we know about justice in this nation.

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Kavanaugh was guilty because of events of his youth. Events that were very similar to the events of the youth of so many of us (as well as those condemning him).

He was guilty of being male. I watched with horror as shrieking harridans across social media celebrated every accusation against him, and even went so far as to say that if an innocent man had to be destroyed, in order to push a feminist agenda, then so be it.

He was guilty, even though there was nothing solid or demonstrable brought against him.

He was guilty, because it was Donald Trump who nominated him.

And let’s be honest. That’s the real reason many had a problem with him.

I’m about as NeverTrump as you can possibly be. Nobody that knows my work will dispute that. I did not, however, compromise my principles or my sense of justice because of it. I didn’t care who nominated the man. What was going on was just wrong.

Another point of interest would be that the longer the nightmare dragged on, the less it became about the women and the more it became about his teen drinking.

Odd how that became the focus when the accusations of these women began to fall apart.

For those of us not blinded by partisanship or disgust with the hay-haired mountebank in the White House welcome this turnabout.

If it turns out that false statements were made for political shenanigans, then those behind the charges should be confronted and made to bear the cost.

In a letter sent on Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Session and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley wrote that he was referring Swetnick and Avenatti for an investigation on “materially false statements they made to the Committee during the course of the Committee’s investigation.”

“In light of the seriousness of these facts, and the threat these types of actions pose to the Committee’s ability to perform its constitutional duties, I hope you will give this referral the utmost consideration,” Grassley wrote in the letter.

“In light of Ms. Swetnick’s and Mr. Avenatti’s own statements to the media, information obtained from Committee interviews of her associates, and publicly reported information about her and Mr. Avenatti, it has become apparent that the statements Mr. Avenatti and Ms. Swetnick submitted to the Committee likely contained materially false claims,” Grassley wrote in the letter.

He also mentioned the contradictions in Swetnick’s statements, as well as how investigating those claims resulted in dividing resources.

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Of course, Avenatti responded in a tweet with his usual bombast.

“He didn’t care when it came to putting a man on the SCOTUS for life. We welcome the investigation as now we can finally get to the bottom of Judge Kavanaugh’s lies and conduct. Let the truth be known,” he said.

He further stated in a letter written to The Hill:

“Grassley has just made a major mistake. Let the investigation into Kavanaugh and his lies begin.”

And that’s always a possibility. Maybe this frees up the FBI to do the thorough combing over of Kavanaugh’s past that Democrats desperately wanted.

It really depends on if the Justice Department decides to take up the case and begin an investigation.

So, let the games begin.