The 6 senior GOP Senate Judiciary members who voted against reauthorizing VAWA
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The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee tried to bully the first of the women to accuse Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, as they made clear that getting Kavanaugh confirmed was more important than investigating wheThe 6 senior GOP Senate Judiciary members who voted against reauthorizing VAWA
The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee tried to bully the first of the women to accuse Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, as they made clear that getting Kavanaugh confirmed was more important than investigating whether he once attempted to rape a young woman. The tactic also could be interpreted as a signal they were trying to send to any more women who might have similar stories. We now know that when they did receive word that a second woman was accusing Kavanaugh of sexual abuse, the Republicans’ response again was neither concern over the allegation, nor was it over the now emerging evidence of a pattern of behavior. Indeed, the basic human concept that sexual abuse is wrong didn’t even seem to register to these Republicans. Instead, their response to the second allegation was to try yet again to speed up the process and get Kavanaugh confirmed as quickly as possible. The Kavanaugh scandal isn’t just about Kavanaugh, it’s about the Republican Party’s despicable attitude toward women. They tried to protect Kavanaugh rather than trying to learn the truth. They were worried about Kavanaugh suffering from the accusation, and they didn’t care a whit about the suffering of the women he allegedly abused. But this should be no surprise, given their support of Trump, who has credibly been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 16 women, and who was caught on audio bragging about assaulting women. Nothing about the Republicans’ attitude toward sexual abuse of women should be a surprise. It, too, is a pattern. When the Senate voted on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA), only twenty-two members were opposed. All were Republicans. Among those twenty-two Republicans were the six current senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Chuck Grassley. Read more