{"id":11416,"date":"2018-09-22T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2018-09-22T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:01:05","slug":"oh-what-a-tangled-web-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/oh-what-a-tangled-web-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, What a Tangled Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>The likely justification of the Republican majority for agreeing to a rehearing of the Kavanaugh nomination was political, not legal: Senate Republicans apparently worried that in-party potential No-voters on Kavanaugh, such as Senators Corker, Flake, or Collins, might become emboldened by an outright refusal to hear Professor Ford\u2019s narratives or that independent women voters would be alienated by \u201csilencing\u201d the accuser.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, a constitutional state with an independent judiciary, cannot long continue if it institutionalizes the idea that an accuser can raise charges of 36 years past, without current knowledge when or where the alleged crime took place, without consistent accounts of how many males were allegedly involved, without any witnesses that might contradict the denials of the accused, and without either physical evidence or any proof of a pattern of subsequent such violent behavior from Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>No district attorney would consider pursuing such charges, because to do so would mean that we no longer live in a lawful society but have so politicized the legal system that anyone at any time can prompt criminal investigations without any evidence other than one\u2019s incomplete or indeed faulty memory of something that happened 36 prior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/american-divide-culture-politicization-polarization\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The likely justification of the Republican majority for agreeing to a rehearing of the Kavanaugh nomination was political, not legal: Senate Republicans apparently worried that in-party potential No-voters on Kavanaugh, such as Senators Corker, Flake, or Collins, might become emboldened by an outright refusal to hear Professor Ford\u2019s narratives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1123,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Y8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11429,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/epitaph-for-a-dying-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":11416,"position":0},"title":"Epitaph for a Dying Culture","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and their endless sequelae have ended up as an epitaph for a spent culture for which its remedies are felt to be worse than its diseases. Think 338 B.C., A.D. 476, 1453, or 1939. The coordinated effort to destroy Brett\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Supreme Court&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Supreme Court","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/supreme-court\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11439,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-campus-comes-to-congress\/","url_meta":{"origin":11416,"position":1},"title":"The Campus Comes to Congress","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress. During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. 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Who could defend Weinstein, or the sexual narcissist Matt Lauer with his electric button-locked office, who parlayed his position into serial asymmetrical sexual trysts while he broadcast his progressive fides\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11427,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":11416,"position":3},"title":"Kavanaugh\u2019s Testimony Was His Joseph N. Welch Moment","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Christina Ford\u2019s testimony did not alter, positively or negatively, the facts of her allegations. She still cannot adduce where or when the alleged assault of 36 years prior occurred, or how she arrived at, or departed from, the alleged, but unnamed, location of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11433,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fallout-from-the-kavanaugh-hearings-a-permanent-cloud\/","url_meta":{"origin":11416,"position":4},"title":"Fallout from the Kavanaugh Hearings: A Permanent Cloud?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Conventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be \u201csmeared\u201d and stained by past frenzied unfounded allegations of sexual assault. Yet the opposite just as well may be true. As a Supreme Court justice, Kavanaugh would have withstood every imaginable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kavanaugh&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kavanaugh","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kavanaugh\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12016,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/anti-trump-psychodrama-10-0\/","url_meta":{"origin":11416,"position":5},"title":"Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the Covington kids, the Mueller investigation, and now the Trump phone call all have in common? 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