Kamala Harris allegedly handled Brett Kavanaugh from the jump

The Senate Republicans have yielded and Donald Trump has just announced that the FBI will conduct a week-limited investigation, Cliff Notes, a very abbreviated and truncated investigation into the allegations of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her sexually in 1982.

A blow to Arizona senator Jeff Flake, who was trying to cover his general cowardice, but the impression of his poor John McCain can only delay Kavanaugh by a week and still have him on the ground in mid-air. course.

Even if I want to criticize Democrats' Thursday audience, like Annalize's Keating's law students How to let a rich guy and white escape murder class, it would always come to the Republicans. However, it was not necessary. In fact, with a decision by Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh would not measure his Boof hole for a seat on the Supreme Court at this time. It would be enough for a phone call to Senator Kamala Harris.

Let me start by saying that it will not be one of those Yassss Queen + Black Magic + K-Hive monologues about how Senator Harris is the best thing to do in California since The chronicle 2001. I have a lot of criticisms to make about Harris's record, but there is no denying that he is the smartest prosecutor on the Senate Judiciary Committee, if not the entire Senate. In addition, she is a clever politician with serious aspirations for 2020. So how did she get Brett Kavanaugh away? Let's go back to the beautiful days of July 30, when Blasey Ford for the first time approached his story.

When Kavanaugh's name was brought to the attention of the country on the short list of finalists in the Supreme Court of Donald Trump, Apprentice: Russian Invasion Edition, Blasey Ford realized how close his alleged aggressor was to the seat of the country's supreme court. She contacted her MP Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Then sent a letter detailing her story to Eshoo and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California on July 30th. Feinstein promised Blasey Ford to keep the letter secret. Then in late September, just before the committee vote for Kavanaugh to be scheduled, either a) Feinstein's office leaked the letter or b) another person leaked the existence of the letter to the press, forcing Blasey Ford to speak to the press and call for an FBI investigation and an audience. According to The Intercept, it looked like this:

This culminated in Thursday's hearings, which forced all victims of sexual assault in America to remain distracted for eight hours, while Kavanaugh threw a temper tantrum, allowing us to deal with the entire scenario once the FBI would have finished re-examining it. However, let me hit you with another story. Now in your best ESPN 30 for 30 votes: And if I told you, California had two senators, not one?

Imagine if Blasey Ford had first contacted Senator Harris' office, or if the Eshoo representative had referred him to Harris instead of Feinstein? Harris, as an accomplished former Attorney General and presumably presidential candidate in 2020, would probably have treated that much better than Feinstein, who seemed to never know what to do with the silver bullet in his hand. Senator Harris would have understood the political significance of a woman accusing a potential Supreme Court assailant of aggression and the fact that the government was careful to protect a victim of sexual assault instead of worrying about its partisan appearance, which was probably the essence of Feinstein's mind.

I suppose that Kamala Harris acted in two ways: she promised to protect the identity of Blasey Ford and would have committed to keeping it out of the public eye if Kavanaugh did not move from the list to the public. candidates – a promise much more realistic than Feinstein's all Alicia Keys and claiming "I'll keep your secrets" anyway. Next, Harris reportedly drove Blasey Ford to the nearest FBI office, located at 18^e District. Why? The sexual assault is not a federal crime, there is no statute of limitations and the local FBI office would have been legally bound to document Blasey Ford's complaint, providing a track of paper and eliminating future charges that Harris or whoever was sitting on the story to use later for maximum effect. As long as the local special agent in charge considers the story of Blasey Ford credible, the California FBI has been doing due diligence since July. You can imagine Harris in all his memorable glory by putting the chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice, Chuck Grassley, with Blasey Ford.

"Hey, guess where I am? No idea? I am at the FBI office in San Francisco with a woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge in 1982. Local agents have already started their investigation. I told myself that you had to know it. OK Bye."

At this point, Grassley would be stuck; he could have told Trump to choose another candidate because Kavanaugh was under investigation by the FBI for assault. Or, submit the nomination anyway, hoping that he can get the vote before the FBI has completed his investigation. The problem is that Harris would have held all the cards. If Kavanaugh had given up, she wins. If Grassley tries to get the message across, she announces to the Senate:

"The man before you were the subject of a sexual assault investigation and Chuck Grassley pushed him to the end, although I had spoken to him months ago." By the way, I have a witness. OK Bye."

I do not know if it's a Devil's Triangle or not, but I'm sure Chuck Grassley and Brett Kavanaugh would have been fucked. In addition, cowards like Jeff Flake and potential foxes like Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would have their cover. it is much easier to postpone a vote for an investigation already under way than to request an inquiry at the 11th hour and to face the anger of your colleagues behind closed doors like what happened on Friday.

Note that all this is hypothetical. it would have been necessary for Blasey Ford to get in touch with Harris first and Harris make some brilliant decisions that I'm absolutely sure she would have taken. What would have meant at worst, we would be back where we are today with a deferred vote pending an investigation, but more likely, Kavanaugh would never have been chosen; Chuck Grassley is not so daring.

I do not blame Blasey Ford: she fulfilled her civic duty and was very courageous in sharing her story, without being strategic. I do not necessarily blame Dianne Feinstein for not being strategic enough. I'm just saying that Harris is smarter, more knowledgeable and better understands the nuances of the law than Feinstein and could have been a hero in this story. I swore it would not become a Yasssss Queen + Black Girl Magic festival, but is not the trump administration lesson from #TrustBlackWomen? When it came to trusting black women to overthrow an angry and privileged white man, there would have been no better option than Kamala Harris.