Airforceone wrote:
Yes he has. But his last jobs were not for the SCOTUS and these are new aligations. It doesn't make any difference how many times a person has had a background check.
When he was put on Trumps short list for the SCOTUS that’s when Dr. Ford came forward. The Senate judiciary republicans created this storm it would have been no big deal just to have the FBI investigate it’s done all the time.
Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor with decades of experience dealing with sex crimes who was tasked by GOP senators with questioning Christine Blasey Ford during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly told lawmakers afterward there would not be enough evidence to charge or even obtain a search warrant on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Mitchell, chief of the Maricopa County attorney’s office Special Victims Division, spoke to a meeting of all 51 Republican senators following the hearing, two sources briefed on the session told Fox News.
“Mitchell spelled it out and was clear with senators that she could not take (Ford’s allegation) anywhere near a courtroom,” one source said.
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The prosecutor further told the senators that she would not even seek a search warrant.
New York Times congressional correspondent Nicholas Fandos also tweeted that he heard about Mitchell’s assessment from three Republicans.
“Rachel Mitchell, Republican’s outside questioner, privately told GOP senators tonight that based on the evidence she heard at the hearing, she would not have prosecuted or even been able to obtain a search warrant, according to three Republicans,” Fandos wrote in a tweet.
Rachel Mitchell, Republican’s outside questioner, privately told GOP senators tonight that based on the evidence she heard at the hearing, she would not have prosecuted or even been able to obtain a search warrant, according to three Republicans
Mitchell’s boss, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson ahead of Thursday’s hearing that as a prosecutor her focus is on protecting and seeking justice for the victims of sex crimes, but not all allegations can be taken as “ground truth.”
“What Rachel will do is she will go in and start by listening,” Montgomery said. “She certainly has a victim-centered focus as a prosecutor, but that doesn’t mean you can accept as ground truth everything that’s said.”
Bill Montgomery, Rachel Mitchell's boss on Kavanaugh, Ford hearing: "She certainly has a victim-centered focus as a prosecutor, but that doesn't mean you can't accept there's ground truth to everything that's said."
Montgomery, who is a Republican, described Mitchell as “well-grounded: professional, fair and objective.”
She has also been praised by Democrat officials.