From Senate to circus - Rodolfo Ragonesi

When Senator John Cornyn  stated that the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee proceedings deliberating on the appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the US, had become a circus, repeatedly quoting words used to describe Senator McCarthy and his 1950s inquisition as being cruel, reckless and without decency, I could not but think that he had a point.

Justice is built on age-old principles like due process, objectivity, and innocent until proven guilty. Whenever these are disregarded civilisation scrapes the bottom of the barrel.

I should state from the outset that my leanings or sympathies have never lain with the US Republican faction, or judges whose decisions are weighted in favour of big business. However, it would be a great perversion were the judge to be rejected for the wrong reasons and subjected to a show trial.  

After 36 years of silence, psychologist Christine Blasey Ford recently alleged a case of sexual assault in 1982 when Judge Kavanaugh was 17 and in high school. She has not claimed sexual harassment, which is conduct unbecoming, but assault, a criminal offence. Strangely and sadly she did not do the obvious thing in July and approach lawyers...