As far as I am aware, nobody on the Senate Judiciary Committee is experienced in handling sexual abuse cases. None of them have been advocates of child victims of sexual abuse. None of them have put sexual predators behind bars.

Rachel Mitchell has.

Who is Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor chosen to question Kavanaugh’s accuser? In an interview in 2012 in FrontLine, the magazine for the conservative Christian group Foundations Baptist Fellowship international, Mitchell said she was drawn to fighting sex crimes against children after working with a senior attorney who was assigned a case where the offender was a youth choir director. In an interview in 2012 in FrontLine, the magazine for the conservative Christian group Foundations Baptist Fellowship international, Mitchell said she was drawn to fighting sex crimes against children after working with a senior attorney who was assigned a case where the offender was a youth choir director. “It struck me how innocent and vulnerable the victims of these cases really were. When I became an attorney with the office I prosecuted other kinds of cases, but I was drawn back to this area,” she told the magazine.

My Take

The only reason Democrats want Ford to testify is to get the same type of political capital they received in 1992 following Anita Hill’s questioning by male Republican Senators. It gave the Democrats the highest percentage of female voters hitting the polls in history. If they can use it to stop Kavanaugh, that’s the icing on the cake. The real goal is winning the midterms.

They are using Ford as a pawn in their political games. If they actually cared about Ford, they’d be happy the Republicans were sensitive enough to get a child sexual abuse advocate to ask her questions. Their objections to Mitchell are 100% political and it’s absolutely disgusting.

Democrats in the Senate don’t give a hoot about anything outside their own political futures. That’s why they oppose Mitchell, an amazing choice to question an alleged sexual assault victim. She doesn’t fit their agenda.