There is no reason not to believe her. People remember what happened 40-50 years ago, when there was no one around to complain to. The current ongoing campaign to smear anyone who comes forward, having lived in anonymity for decades, when they realize that someone who did something evil to them years ago is about to be given a position of power shows that the problem still continues to this day.
BTW: she stopped short of accusing him of rape.
At this point, there is no reason to believe her. She waited 30 plus years, her star witness said it never happened, her students say she is unstable and vengeful.
Really? We'll see about this. I think that it is better to know about this guy before he gets on the Supreme Court and is in a position to totally screw up the lives and rights of female Americans. I met male whores when I was young, and I'm not surprised if they lie like hell. Scumbag then. Scumbag now.
So you’re admiring that your entire belief of her honesty and his guilt is based on emotion. Thank you
Not "emotion." That's idiotic. It's called experience. Women know that many guys will do exactly as this guy is accused of. Back when I was young, they rarely got caught at it, but I have no doubt that most would lie about it. Ask detectives who interview suspects in rape cases. Ask me, when I, a teenager, had to tell my aunt how her 33-year-old treated me when she wasn't around. Ask all of the people finally telling of their experiences on Me, Too.
And remember the old defense to a paternity charge, before there was such a thing as DNA testing, that the mother slept with more than one guy, and the accused would have his buddies back him up by lying that they had slept with her, too.
SCOTUS already has four misogynists. Read the transcript of the oral argument in the
Whole Women's Health case challenging the absurd Texas law regulating women's clinics. Except for a few procedural questions, they never asked a single question about the substance of the law while the state solicitor general was arguing the state's case. Nothing. Yet the state's case was so absurd that the female justices were able to shred it easily, and the amicus briefs filed by the leading medical associations all said that the law was based on a claim not supported by accepted medical experience.
When there already are four justices ready and willing to throw the rights of one half of the U.S. population under the bus due to their personal prejudices, we have a right to know whether the nominee holds an attitude that this half of the population are just toys. We have to snake out bias.