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Digest this:
It’s natural to place this sort of accusation within a criminal-justice framework: the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt; the presumption of innocence; the right to confront and respond to an accuser. If Judge Kavanaugh stood criminally accused of attempted rape, all of that would apply with full force. But those concepts are a poor fit for Supreme Court confirmation hearings, where there’s no presumption of confirmation, and there’s certainly no burden that facts be established beyond a reasonable doubt.
It is a giant step backwards to our system of fairness and pursuit to happiness. We have a rich historical diary of of how lowering the bar of PRESUMED innocents on any charge, for whatever reason, will allow prejudice to prevail as a major mitigating factor.
You say naught, I say, ask any Black man.
Or, reflect back to the Salem Witch Trials when justice was relaxed.
BTW, the highlighted part came from a article in the, yep, you guessed it, the NYT.
Read the last line, again. It is saying we/they, have no obligation of finding the factual truth. You want to go down this road, again?
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