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Home Front: Politix
Anita Hill: Kavanaugh Bears The 'Burden Of Persuasion' Here
2018-09-20
[Hot Air] Uh, no, and I can’t imagine any other type of bare allegation that might be thrown at a nominee for a government position that would lead us to say the burden of proof was on the accused in answering it. Which is particularly foul given that the type of allegation being made in the present case involves a violent sex crime.

Hill’s distinguishing between the burden of proof in court and the burden of proof in the court of public opinion, i.e. the Senate. To take away someone’s liberty we require the state to prove its case, but to take away a plum lifetime appointment to which the nominee was never entitled to begin with? What’s wrong with making him bear the burden of proof?

Related: Hot Air - Joe Biden: Prominent Men Accused Of Rape Should Be Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  So Anita is still traumatized by Long Dong Silver stories?
Long after Long died of AIDS?
Longer then Long lived?
Having never met Long?
Having never seen a 35mm of Long in action?
Posted by: 3dc   2018-09-20 20:55  

#10  JohnQC, for the left, Kavanaugh will always be guilty. Even if there is conclusive evidence that the whole thing never happened.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2018-09-20 19:23  

#9  So Kavanaugh is guilty until proven innocent?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-09-20 17:58  

#8  Will baseball bat be persuasive enough?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-20 14:36  

#7  So how come Bill Clinton was all OK at that last funeral (with massive ant-semite farrakan.)?

That seemed to pass unremarked by the MSM publishing the sotry under the bus wheels.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-09-20 12:47  

#6  Anita needs to go to law school.
Posted by: Big Oppressor of the Slytherins9038   2018-09-20 12:41  

#5  "He changed me into a newt!"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-09-20 12:14  

#4  Remembering her story about a curly hair found on her coke can. Whatever Anita.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-09-20 12:04  

#3  Well, he tried to screw my country anyway.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-09-20 11:32  

#2  Joe Biden raped me!
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-09-20 11:30  

#1  Start with the accusation being so vague it cannot be disproven. I think this is on purpose, the fascists having learned from the Duke case.

Then move to the unwillingness of the accuser to well, accuse under oath. She certainly already made the accusation in public, so why not make it before the committee?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-09-20 08:12  

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