According to Senator John Kennedy, at least.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the committee, said a lawyer for Ramirez told committee staff she would not speak to them about her allegation that Kavanaugh flashed his naked groin in her face during an alcohol-laden party their freshman year. Ramirez made the accusation in a blockbuster Sunday night New Yorker story.”Our counsel repeatedly tried to reach him,” Kennedy said of Ramirez’s lawyer. “They finally did reach him, and he said we are not issuing a statement. He said if you want our statement, read the New Yorker.”
Meanwhile, Christina Blasey Ford might, get this, also not show up to testify under oath, according to Dianne Feinstein:
Peter Doocy
Verified account@pdoocyNEW: Sen. Feinstein, D-Ca, just told me “I have no way of knowing” if Dr. Ford is actually going to show up to Kavanaugh hearing Thursday – if outside counsel is asking the questions
Chuck Grassley has pretty much had enough of this bullshit. In the below letter, he rejects Dianne Feinstein’s most recent (of many) demands that Ford not testify under oath, and also rejects her demand that the FBI investigate Ramirez’s claims. He notes, pointedly, that false statements made to The New Yorker are not subject to penalty for perjury, but false statements made to Congress are, and if Ramirez ever decides to sell her Recovered Memories to Congress where she can be held criminally liable for perjury, then they’ll decide how and whether to proceed — but they won’t be proceeding before she’s given sworn testimony or a sworn written statement.
So the slime is flying off the wheels of this circus wagon.
Not one person will go under penalty of perjury as a victim or witness to these accusers.
BUT every witness, including the judge, has gone under penalty of perjury in denying all of these charges.
This would explain why Ford has never filed a complaint with the local police in Maryland; filing a false police report has penalties, too. I’ve never believed she would show up; she’s never showed much interest, but we’ll see.