Expel Feinstein from the Senate

In her testimony, Ms Ford said:

Sexual assault victims should be able to decide for themselves when and whether their private experience is made public.

A noble sounding platitude. But, there was also a responsibility to make the accused aware of Ms Ford's accusation. That is, there was also an obligation to make Mr Kavanaugh aware of the fact that Ms Ford had gone so far as to send a letter to her United States Senator alleging that he had assaulted her. To neglect this obligation was grossly unfair to Mr Kavanaugh and reveals clearly how this episode was handled without any regard whatsoever to Mr Kavanaugh's right to due process.

Ms Ford had sent a letter to her official representative alleging that Mr Kavanaugh had committed a very serious crime, maintaining that she felt it was her "civic duty" to do so; but, at the same time she insisted that letter be kept confidential, essentially denying the accused the right even to know that he had been accused and the ability to confront his accuser and defend himself.

Senator Feinstein, the senior Democratic member on the Judiciary Committee, should have appreciated the gross injustice such a secret agreement constituted and informed Ms Ford that, if she was going to press this charge, she needed to press it publicly. That Senator Feinstein did not do this, thereby depriving Mr Kavanaugh of his right to due process, was a gross dereliction of her duties, an action for which Senator Feinstein, whether she acted out of malice or only because she has become a doddering old fool, should be expelled from the Senate.