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    The Kavanaugh Prosecutor Is Asking a Baffling Line of Questions

    Rachel Mitchell may be laying the groundwork for future investigations with her interrogation of Christine Blasey Ford.
    by Emma Green Sep 27, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Reuters

    Updated September 27 at 5:01 p.m. EST

    Technically, Christine Blasey Ford was not on trial on Thursday as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her some 35 years ago. But effectively, that’s what it was: Ford was questioned by sitting senators and an experienced prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, who leads the special-victims division of the Maricopa County attorney’s office in Arizona.

    Mitchell’s approach to questioning Ford—and Kavanaugh—is significant for two reasons. Democrats decried Republicans’ decision to bring on a prosecutor, seeing it as an attempt to make Ford seem deceptive or unfairly question her. Mitchell took a methodical approach with Ford, asking her about everything from the small details of the assault to potential inconsistencies in her story. But the morning’s hearing finished up with no clear outcome, and certainly nothing that

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