Supreme Court confirmation looking good.

Pacifico

So what sort of penalty should false accusers face?. Should they be imprisoned for the same amount of time that the accused would have been if found guilty?

Kavanaugh accuser to be investigated after confessing to making up rape claims | Daily Mail Online

raduv1

That's a very slippery slope.

False claims should be deterred. But not by deterring real victims from coming forward.

I've no idea how these things can be reconciled.

raduv1

Nothing I spose as nothing was done for credible victims against him . Unless you are saying that new investigations should be opened for credible claims against him along with the false allegations ?

raduv1

Tis a bugger not being able to post in the Trump thread it seems . Most ultra right conservatives missed the boat on the MeToo movement , takes a true Trump supporter to single out just the one false allegation in the OP and added no other examples of historic false allegations to bolster a disscussion . Agenda ? .

krish

An , more appropriate

Pacifico

Not a false claim by "Jane Doe", but a false claim of being her. Changes nothing - allegations not proven to be false.

krish

Well looking at other cases of false accusation I suspect nothing will be done.

Although it makes Senator Mazie Hirono look rather foolish for declaring that we should believe all the allegations simply because they were made by a women.

weaviemx5

Again NOT a proven false accusation from Jane Doe but a false claim to have been Jane Doe.

Pacifico

Wasn't it more that organisations should believe accusers enough to warrant an investigation, rather than simply ignoring them?  

Obviously we all interpret things differently, depending on what we want to see.

Toko Black

There was an investigation.

"Committee investigators spoke with 45 individuals and took 25 written statements relating to the various allegations made in the course of the #SCOTUS confirmation process," the Senate Judiciary Committee tweeted Saturday.


"In neither the committee's investigation nor in the supplemental background investigation conducted by the FBI was there ANY evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations."

The committee investigators "found no verifiable evidence that supported" Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed in the early 1980s and attempted to remove her clothes while covering her mouth with one hand.

"The witnesses that Dr. Ford identified as individuals who could corroborate her allegations failed to do so, and in fact, contradicted her," the report notes.

It also states that committee investigators "found no verifiable evidence" to support Deborah Ramirez's claim that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when they were both at Yale.

The report additionally dismisses allegations from Julie Swetnick, forwarded by lawyer Michael Avenatti.

"Indeed, the evidence appears to support the position that Julie Swetnick and Mr. Avenatti criminally conspired to make materially false statements to the Committee and obstruct the Committee’s investigation," the report writes.​