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The judge in the rape case against former President Donald Trump has denied a request for a mistrial from Trump s attorney, who claimed Judge Lewis Kaplan has made pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings during the proceedings.The denied request allowed cross examination of Trump s accuser, E. Jean Carroll, to resume Monday 鈥攖he third day of her testimony.Carroll, a former magazine columnist, is suingTrumpfor defamation and battery. The former president has denied raping her in the dressing room of Manha stanley cup ttan s Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s.Trump s attorney Joe Tacopina tried to show Carroll was not traumatized by the alleged incident, and again questioned her decision to not call the police. She defended the decision and said she was a member of the silent generation, when women were taught to keep their chins up and not to complain.SEE MORE: Trump s lawyers try to poke holes in woman s recollection of rapeCarroll said she was ashamed about what happened and thought it w stanley cup as her fault. She has testified that the Me Too movement prompted her to go public with her story.The juryheard a CNN clip of C stanley cup arroll saying most people think rape is sexy. She clarified she meant people were i Kdqr CSKT artist wins national fellowship for cultural bearers
Judge Amy Coney Barrett s Supreme Court confirmation hearings concluded Thursday with the Senate Judiciary Committee jordan setting a full Senate vote to seat her on the S crocs upreme Court on Oct. 22.Should more than half of Senators vote to confirm Barrett next week 鈥?and the Republican-controlled Senate appears to have the votes to do so 鈥?there will be time to seat the judge on the Supreme Court ahead of the 2020 election on Nov. 3.Democrats attempts to delay the vote reached a peak on Thursday, as Democratic senators on the committee opened the Thursday by filing motions to push back a committee vote.Thursday s portion of the hearing opened with only one Democrat 鈥?Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois 鈥?in the room. Durbin argued that a quoru air max 1 m was not present and that the hearing should be delayed. The Republican-controlled committee quickly voted to change the rules to proceed with the hearing and set the date for a vote on Barrett s confirmation for Oct. 22.Following that vote, Democratic committee members called for motions to delay a vote on Barrett s confirmation. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, called the process rushed, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota called it a sham. Repub |
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