Friday, October 5, 2018

On October 4, 2018, USA today posted an editorial article by Catherine Cherkasky titled Christine Blasey Ford is no poster child for women's rights: A female attorney's perspectiveCatherine Cherkasky is an extremely credible source due to the fact that she is both an attorney and a female. Cherkasky's opinion has a slight bias because she was a criminal defense attorney. Her intended audience is everyone who is unsure about the legitimacy of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony. The claim that she is making is about the weakness of her argument and the holes in her story. She provides evidence for her argument by calling attention to the fact that the FBI is unlikely to find any actual evidence because it supposedly happened in 1982 and there are several issues. For example, she doesn't remember the date or location. There is also no way to prove that the man there was Brett Kavanaugh. She also proposes the argument that perhaps Ford's memory is distorted, an event such as a sexual assault can put a lot of strain on a person mind, leading them to truly believe something that is false. I personally agree with Cherkasky. I have no way of knowing whether or not what she is saying is true but I am a big supporter of the tenet that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty. An accusation is not the same as being guilty and I feel like a lot of people don't know the difference. I also think that she has hurt her credibility a lot by waiting 30 years to come forward with this information, right when he was nomination for the supreme court was moving to a vote.

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