Nicole Berner, a newly appointed Fourth Circuit judge, is lawfully married to the pro-abortion advocate who represented Christine Blasey Ford, the person who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault against her.
The Washington Post describes Berner as” the first openly gay determine and the first labour prosecutor on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit”, which covers Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Berner, who is also pro- pregnancy, previously served as a team lawyer for Planned Parenthood, where she focused on “protecting and expanding entry” to molecular abortion medication.
Ford was represented by Debra Katz in her high-profile# MeToo charges against Kavanaugh. Katz claimed in later notes that her consumer was motivated to criticise Kavanaugh in part because she wanted to preserve Roe v. Wade, the huge Supreme Court case that was overturned in June 2022.
Ford made a recent appearance in the national news cycle with the release of her future autobiography,” One Way Back,” about her accusations against Kavanaugh.
Katz issued a joint statement at the time with fellow lawyer Lisa Banks, saying,” Five years ago, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s valiant witness changed the world. She confronted massive public pressure, confronted the truth, and sparked a national debate on physical abuse. Numerous victims were inspired by her courage to speak out and seek righteousness.
” We are glad to have strongly represented her during the Senate trials”, they added. ” The effect of Dr. Blasey Ford’s witness changed American society. We support Dr. Blasey Ford and all of our brave clients who have stepped up to demand accountability from prominent people.
The book was published on March 19 as a result of Berner’s confirmation to the judge. Members were unable to immediately confirm whether this was a coincidence with The Daily Signal.
During Berner’s election reading in December, Republicans grilled her about her previous claims and associated social issues, including the Kavanaugh assurance, according to the Washington Post.
” I believe Justice Kavanaugh, just like every other justice of the Supreme Court, was genuinely confirmed, and were I to be confirmed, I would adopt his ideas and the views of every justice”, she told the Republicans existing at the receiving.
” The role of a prosecutor is a very different position than that of an advocate”, she added.
In later March, pro-abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood Action Fund released statements that suggest assurance that she will continue to support abortion activists.
Reproductive Liberty for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju emphasized that Berner “understands that sexual freedom is a basic right,” according to Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh sparked a media circus, stories filled with debunked anonymous sources, a Senate investigation, a highly televised Senate hearing, and more. The Supreme Court justice, who was confirmed to the court on October 5, 2018, was ultimately found by the Senate Judiciary Committee with” no evidence” to back up the allegations.
The 414-page report states that” after an extensive investigation that included the thorough review of all potentially credible evidence submitted and interviews of more than 40 individuals with information relating to the allegations, including classmates and friends of all those involved, Committee investigators found no witness who could provide any verifiable evidence to support any of the allegations brought against Justice Kavanaugh.”
Katz has been called” the feared attorney of the# MeToo movement.” She founded Katz Banks Kumin LLP, a company that deals with whistleblower retaliation and sexual harassment.
In video footage obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation in 2019, Katz revealed that putting” an asterisk next to” Kavanaugh’s name before “he takes a scalpel” to Roe v. Wade was “part of what motivated” Ford to speak out.
” In the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christine’s testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on the court”, Katz explained in April 2019 at the University of Baltimore’s 11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference.
” He will always have an asterisk next to his name”, Katz continued. ” When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important, it is important that we know, and that is part of what motivated Christine”.
The video was first reported by Ryan Lovelace in his book,  ,” Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh”. The author claimed at the time that it raises questions all of Ford and Katz’s prior statements in relation to the subject.
Lovelace added that if the Kavanaugh hearings had been conducted with this information, there might have been different inquiries and outcomes. Ford had stated to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had stepped forward out of the spirit of” civic duty.”
” Ford’s audience was not the Senate, as Katz had previously suggested, but the American people”, Lovelace wrote. If they could be convinced that Justice Kavanaugh was a predator, they might not agree with a future decision by the five Republican-appointed justices to change the Roe v. Wade abortion law.
” Had the Senate understood Ford’s real motivation, as described by Katz, it might have appreciated more fully the pressure that’ organized forces’ were applying,'” he added.
Katz’s assertions at the Baltimore conference rang a partially accurate statement: Kavanaugh became a target for protesters because of the notoriety of the Kavanaugh hearings. In the days following the leak of the draft opinion indicating that Roe would soon be overturned, protesters repeatedly showed up outside Kavanaugh’s home where they yelled, sang, and chanted, often accusing him of being a rapist.
Authorities detained a man close to the Kavanaugh family’s residence shortly before Roe was overturned because he claimed he had traveled from California to kill the justice out of a desire to defend abortions in the United States. That man’s name is Nicholas Roske. According to the Washington Free Beacon, almost two years later, his case still has no trail date or plea deal.
