be given an additional day to make her decision. and i m so glad that debra katz has used the word bullied to describe exactly what chuck grassly and all the republicans in the senate are trying to do. because every republican senator has joined chuck grassly in the bullying tactics chuck grassly has been using with dr. ford. the first deadline senator grassly gave to professor blasy ford to agree to his terms to testify for the senate judiciary committee was 10:00 a.m. this morning, and then he moved that deadline to 5:00 p.m. today and moved that deadline to 10:00 p.m. and each time senator grassley did that, he did it to the media first. he announced it to the media before he announced it to communicated directly with dr. ford s lawyers.
your reaction to where the nominations stand now. attorney katz in representing dr. ford in her response to committee tonight did for the first time use the word bully. that republicans and the republican staff on the committee speaking for chairman grassly have been trying to bully dr. ford every step of the way. i think that s an accurate description of what s going on, and i would go a step further in trying to say this is an effort to railroad her or create some situation in which she doesn t testify. i think a fair reading what s going on this week is terror on the part of the white house, on the part of the nominations team for kavanaugh at letting her testify fairly. they ve thrown up every roadblock, made a pretense in the press. senator grassley has lied to the american people and other members about the precedent of having it go back, and meanwhile his allies have been out bringing forward the most discredible claims to try to smear an innocent person, a schoolteacher, tr
and if chuck grassley tries to move towards a vote on monday, i would expect every senator to be in that room raising their voices to stop that. i think there will be a lot of voices raised on monday if this goes forward with a vote. i think you have senators and members of the house extremely upset about this and they re hearing from people across the country. brett kavanaugh is the most unpopular nominee for the supreme court in the history of polling. and i don t think he s going to be able to bang that gavel and force it through with the number of voices speaking out. i would also point out, lawrence, that google and facebook in their negotiations for their hearing got a lot more due process for dr. ford. what does that say about chairman grassly. they got their demands met on both scheduling and by the way scheduling is the easiest thing. witnesses get the schedule they can comply with. and when i think about the women
27 years ago making that march, house members all have senate floor privileges. they can walk onto the senate floor at any time. i would expect the senate floor to be filled with every single democratic member of the house next week if chuck grassly and mitch mcconnell are really trying to ram this through. that s right. and that s actually how those women including my first boss pat shroeder got into the senate dining room to harangue their colleagues about what s happening to anita hill. but the rage you re seeing now we re really talking about tearing the country apart. and as the yale law school letter says at some point we have to ask what s good for the country. richard nixon lost two supreme
hill received 27 years ago. and that disgraceful treatment was delivered to anita hill by chuck grassly who was a member of the committee then and orrin hatch who was a republican member of the committee then. they have both spent the week lying about the precedent set by the anita hill case. and in every controversy in the confirmation process, the standard procedure of an fbi investigation. they re not doing that for dr. ford. no fbi investigation because their plan is to treat her with even more unfairness than they treated anita hill. anita hill s accusations got three days of testimony in the senate judiciary committee. 22 witnesses were heard am. chuck grassly wants one day of a hearing with only two witnesses, judge kavanaugh and dr. ford. because chuck grassly s job is to do what you heard mitch mcconnell just promise, to plow right through it. the democrats want to hear from all the relevant witnesses and, quote, outside experts who can speak to these allegations.