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Chuyện lùm xùm đề cử bổ nhiệm Brett M. Kavanaugh vào Tòa Tối Cao
Subject: MẤU CHỐT Chuyện Lùm Xùm đề cử bổ nhiệm Brett M.Kavanaugh vào Tòa Tối Cao
From: Mike Wilson
Date: Fri, September 21, 2018 4:16 pm
Nước Mỹ tuy vẫn là siêu cường thế gian nhưng đạo đức suy đồi, hệ chính trị ung thối, hai đảng chỉ lo tranh cử, đấu đá, giữ ghế, củng cố quyền lực,
... KHÔNG HIỂU RỒI NÓ SẼ ĐI VỀ ĐÂU ???
TT Obama đã nói, "Trump chỉ là triệu chứng" - không phải nguyên nhân gốc !
Nhưng nếu để ông ta LỘNG HÀNH, thì BỆNH TÌNH nước Mỹ sẽ còn NGUY HẠI hơn nữa,
và trượt dốc xuống ĐỘC TÀI PHÁT XÍT sẽ là NGUY CƠ CÓ THẬT !
Nước Mỹ đang bị đánh phá từ bên trong, lẫn bên ngoài - bởi chính chia rẽ nội bộ, lẫn đốc thúc xúi giục từ Nga !
Nước Mỹ đã từng dạy "dân chủ", ươm mầm chống đối nổi loạn từ xa, gây nội chiến và chiến tranh tại nhiều nước. Nay liệu nó có thể tự cứu nền "dân chủ" rệu rã của chính nó ?!
nth-fl
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Nếu GS Christine Blasey Ford tố cáo đúng, liệu Brett Kavanaugh có đủ lương tri đạo đức để phán xử ở Tối Cao Pháp Viện Mỹ?
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On Sep 21, 2018, at 8:21 AM, Mike Wilson wrote:
Giáo sư Christine Blasey Ford, Palo Alto University, California, tố cáo, năm 15 tuổi đã bị Brett Kavanaugh cưỡng hiếp hụt trong một buổi tiệc, có nhân chứng .
Đây là một trải nghiệm đau buồn khủng hoảng (trauma), đáng xấu hổ, khiến nạn nhân chỗ nhớ chỗ quên, không dám công khai câu chuyện trong nhiều năm.
Nhưng khi thấy kẻ cưỡng hiếp mình, Brett Kavanaugh, sắp được bổ nhiệm suốt đời làm 1 trong 9 Quan tòa Tối Cao, có quyền định đoạt các tranh cãi luật pháp cho cả nước, bà đã quyết định công khai tố giác - cho cả nước biết !
Việc tố cáo này mang lại cho bà nhiều nghi ngờ, áp lực, chê bai, thậm chí đe dọa tính mạng !
Nhưng bà sẵn sàng chịu khám bằng máy thử nói dối, đòi hỏi vụ việc phải được Công An Liên Bang FBI điều tra,
- mặc dù nếu bà thực sự nói dối với FBI thì chính bà sẽ bị khép tội hình sự !
Trong khi đó, Brett Kavanaugh chối tội, nhưng không dám đòi FBI điều tra để minh oan cho mình
- vì y sợ rằng nếu y nói dối FBI để chối tội, chính y sẽ phạm luật hình sự !
Đây là trái ngược tâm thế giữa hai người:
kẻ cáo buộc không sợ phạm tội nói dối FBI,
kẻ bị cáo buộc sợ phạm tội nói dối FBI
- (nên không dám đòi FBI điều tra để minh oan cho mình !)
Trong khi đó, cả TT Trump và phe Cộng Hòa tại Quốc Hội đều không muốn kêu gọi FBI điều tra, mà chỉ muốn thúc đẩy bổ nhiệm Brett Kavanaugh càng sớm càng tốt !
Nếu quả thật Brett Kavanaugh đã cưỡng hiếp hụt bà Ford,
- lúc ấy bà đang "vị thành niên" (15 tuổi) - mà đến nay y vẫn chối tội,
thì liệu y có đủ lương tri đạo đức để phán xử luật pháp Mỹ trên trình độ cao nhất cho cả nước ?!
Đó là vấn đề đặt ra cho cả quốc dân Mỹ !
Nước Mỹ hiện đang có một Tổng Thống huyênh hoang khoe y đã "..." hàng tá phụ nữ, - nay lại sắp có thêm "một tên hiếp dâm" ngồi trên Tòa Tối Cao .
Cả hai tên ấy âm mưu toa rập - dùng số đông tại Tòa này -
để ngăn chặn việc điều tra hỏi cung TT Trump nhằm cản trở việc truất phế một Tổng Thống có "nghi án tội ác" gian lận hình sự (theo luật RICO),
- và "nghi án thông gian với Nga" để khuấy đảo bầu cử TT Mỹ 2016.
Đấy là mấu chốt của tranh đấu chính trị quanh vấn đề bổ nhiệm Brett Kavanaugh vào Tòa Tối Cao. Và cũng là lí do chính yếu khi TT Trump chọn Kavanaugh để bổ nhiệm !!!
nth-fl
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Opinion | The most infuriating aspect of the Kavanaugh conversation
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E. J. Dionne Jt
The Washington Post
For those insisting that Republican senators take Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh seriously, one aspect of the conversation is particularly infuriating: the notion that the timeline established by the GOP for completing this process is quasi-sacred.
Virtually everyone commenting on Kavanaugh's nomination comes to it with a point of view, and I should acknowledge I’m no exception. I oppose his confirmation because he would push the Supreme Court far to the right of where it is now. I also worry that his expansive view of presidential prerogatives could undermine a legitimate investigation of President Trump.
Because I feel so strongly, I have tried hard to understand the reaction of Kavanaugh’s supporters to the emergence of Ford’s accusations just days before a planned vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although my reaction was not the same, I could see why they might bridle over the anonymous nature of the accusation and why they might suspect a Democratic effort to throw sand into the gears of the confirmation process.
But everything changed when Ford came forward, publicly and bravely, with her charge that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school — thus opening herself to the inevitable, scurrilous attacks on her truthfulness and character.
She also made it difficult for those trying to undermine her credibility because of the steps she had taken before going public, including her past statements to others about the incident and her willingness to take a lie-detector test. Such tests are not dispositive, but her readiness to take one spoke to her confidence in the veracity of her recollections.
And we learned why her information emerged only late in the process: Ford had understandable doubts about whether making her private pain public was worth the distress she would face and the attacks she would endure. She feared she might suffer a great deal without altering the course of events, given how determined most Republicans are to install Kavanaugh on the court. Her worries may yet be justified.
Enough GOP senators sensed their party would pay a high political cost for ignoring her that the majority on the Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing for Monday , when she and Kavanaugh would offer their versions of events.
This was only a partial victory. In light of the experience of Anita Hill in the 1991 hearings over Justice Clarence Thomas’s nomination, Ford and her lawyers realized that the encounter could become a show trial — of her. They pointed out that some Republican senators had already written her off as “mistaken” and “mixed up.”
So her lawyers told the committee that she wanted an FBI investigation before she testified, which would allow potential witnesses to be interviewed — including an alleged witness who notified the committee that he does not want to testify.
And it is at this point where the suspicion that Republican senators are acting in bad faith cannot simply be dismissed as partisan bias against Kavanaugh.
They argued that the FBI does not undertake such investigations, which was patently untrue, because the FBI went back and investigated Hill’s allegations. The Trump administration could ask for such an inquiry, just as George H.W. Bush’s administration did in the Thomas case 27 years ago.
They expressed outrage that a vote might be postponed by, say, a week or two. This came with little grace from Republican senators who left Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the court open for one year and 53 days because they would not even hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s last nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Republicans hate it whenever anyone brings up Garland precisely because the episode is such a clear demonstration of their determination to muscle their way to an ideological majority on the Supreme Court. Hurtling toward a vote on Kavanaugh before November’s elections is part of the same effort. Lisa Banks, Ford’s lawyer, issued a statement Wednesday evening saying, “The rush to a hearing is unnecessary, and contrary to the Committee discovering the truth.”
Conservatives who have worked with Kavanaugh have a deep respect for him and cannot believe these charges are true. In light of their confidence, is there any reason they should fear a short delay to allow for a more thorough inquiry?
Yes, many come to this fight with political and ideological agendas. And, yes, revisiting behavior from more than three decades ago creates a lot of discomfort and uncertainty. But a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is at stake, and so is our willingness to respect the courage of a woman who anticipated the price she could pay for coming forward. Whose interests are served by haste ?
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Opinion | Why should we believe Kavanaugh?
Why should we believe Kavanaugh?
By Catherine Rampell
Some have argued that the accusation matters because confirming Kavanaugh without resolving it would sully the reputation of the Supreme Court, which should be populated by only the most morally upright. Or it matters because it serves to deepen the impression that the Republican Party sees victims of sexual violence as disposable. Apparently, someone accused of sexual assault can get a lifetime appointment to the world’s highest court if only their co-partisans shove the confirmation through aggressively enough.
But in my view, the accusation matters most because of what it implies about Kavanaugh’s general qualities not as a role model, or as a representative of his party, but what he might do as a judge.
Teenagers, particularly drunken teenagers, sometimes commit awful, cruel, even criminal acts — acts that can wound victims for decades. When possible, they should be held appropriately accountable. However, what provides more insight into a person’s moral rectitude is, arguably, not what he did as a minor but how he handles such sins once he has developed into a mature adult. Specifically, whether he takes responsibility and expresses contrition.
And if Kavanaugh is continuing — today, as a 53-year-old man — to deny a crime he in fact did commit as a drunken teenager, that casts doubt not only upon his character as a teen but also on his trustworthiness in other high-stakes matters today.