Ivey claims she has no reason to disbelieve Moore’s victims. I suspect your true belief and your position in spite of it are likely closer to those of Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama. I suspect, though, that you’re not nearly as ignorant as you sound. Were Moore’s crimes not barred by statute, I’d leap at the chance to prove them in a court of law. Moore himself would not deny dating teenagers as prosecutor despite a risible series of softballs thrown at him by Sean Hannity. Another seven confirm he pursued teenaged girls as a 30-something Assistant District Attorney. That’s three completely unconnected women, either apolitical or Republicans themselves, accusing Moore of acts of sexual abuse. Following this, yet another woman, Tina Johnson, reported that Moore grabbed her buttocks on the way out of his law office when she was 28, he 44. Since that original piece, Beverly Young Nelson has accused Moore of a sexually violent act against her when she was 16, appearing on camera to recite the attack in heartbreaking, profound detail. Over 30 witnesses, all on record, support the accounts. The original Washington Post piece detailing Moore’s sexual abuse of Leigh Corfman (and the pursuit of three other teenagers) was a model of thorough, painstaking reporting. The allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse leveled against Roy Moore are among the most patently believable, compellingly articulated and thoroughly corroborated I’ve seen in two decades of professional life. I’ve spent my legal career fighting the pandemic that is child sexual abuse and exploitation. Most recently, I’ve heard your increasingly desperate sounding stream of buzz-words (“mainstream leftwing socialist Democrat news media”) that you’re hoping will embolden the very worst in your own constituents to deny an ugly truth nevertheless as clear as glass. I heard your baseless comparison of these allegations to the infamous “Duke Lacrosse” case, one brought by a woman so tragically mentally ill she was not prosecuted for false accusations as it’s suspected she might actually have believed them. I can assure you, accusations are anything but “easy.” I heard your callous and stupid claim that “as an attorney I know I accusations are easy.” I have no idea what kinds of cases you were responsible for, either as an assistant in the Tuscaloosa office or the state attorney general’s office, but I hope you never had the opportunity to interact with a victim of child sexual abuse. Not only as a member of Congress and a powerful political figure in Alabama, but as a former prosecutor and an attorney beyond that. Representative Brooks, you’ve disgraced yourself.
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