.@MazieHirono Didn’t Always Tell Men to ‘Shut Up’ and Believe Accusers nationalreview.com/2018/09/mazie-…
Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii threatens to become the new model of Senate inquisitor. Rather than ask questions of both parties, she has made clear that her mind is already made up: She condemns Judge Kavanaugh and supports Christine Ford.
When the WSJ editorial page pointed out that her statements suggest that the “new American standard of due process will be the presumption of guilt,” she went further. on CNN on Sunday, Hirono said Kavanaugh’s basic integrity had been undermined, during his confirmation hearings:
Kavanaugh has an "ideological" agenda. Ha! Clearly, Hirono has no agenda whatsoever!
"He’s very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to be fair."
"He’s very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to be fair."
She even went on to imply that the mere allegation against Kavanaugh, even without any evidence to support it, had already damaged his credibility beyond repair:
"We already have one person who got to the Supreme Court under this cloud. We shouldn’t have another."
"We already have one person who got to the Supreme Court under this cloud. We shouldn’t have another."
It would be too easy to suggest that @MazieHirono was flirting with McCarthyism in her brazen comments. She is actually flirting with medieval standards of justice, when those in power arbitrarily decided who was telling the truth and who was a traitor.
Spare us the hyper-moralizing speeches, the condemnation of half the human species simply because they are male, and the insistence that women who say they’ve suffered sexual assault must automatically be believed.
Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL. The same holds true when Bill Clinton’s predations were in the news in the late 1990s.
Hirono’s involvement in the effort to sink the Kavanaugh nomination is nakedly political. She told Politico last Tuesday that she may try to derail for as long as two years any future Trump appointment.
If Senator Hirono’s radical new standard of political and legal due process — presumption of guilt — gains traction through the Kavanaugh hearings, an essential bulwark of our legal system could be demolished.
YES. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 
