What is a second class citizen?

A person whose rights and opportunities are treated as less important than those of other people in the same society.

Now, you tell me.

Women or men that are sexually assaulted are disadvantaged because of the psychological scar left in its wake. There are US Senators that don’t care to understand it and/or just don’t care. In the case of US Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana (the most impoverished state in the country next to Mississippi), he redefined the assault of Dr. Hill as sexual harassment and not sexual assault.

US Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana should be referred for an ethics violation in taking license with the truth to justify his vote and promote his particular form of politics. 

The use and abuse of power as seen with this Trump nominee to the Supreme Court, should at least have an ethics review for abuse of power. The same is true with Trump. He obstructed the full view of Kavanaugh’s documents and he obstructed a full investigation of the FBI investigation.

Ms. Ramirez should know there are three justices that are not looking the other way.

October 6, 2018
By Bryan Logan

(L-R) U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.



Supreme Court justices (click here) Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan gave remarks about their experiences on the nation's highest court, and talked specifically about the idea of political bias on the bench.

"There are structures within the court — not the least of which is our modern understanding among what are now eight justices — that we have to rise above partisanship in our personal relationships," Justice Sotomayor said at Princeton University on Friday.

Sotomayor spoke broadly about how Supreme Court justices need to always rise above the political fray for the sake of the court's integrity, and said that effort begins with how justices treat each other.

"We have to treat each other with respect and dignity, and with a sense of amicability that the rest of the world doesn't often share," Sotomayor said....

Deborah Ramirez, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were both at Yale University, released a statement on the judge's confirmation through her attorney.

"Thirty-five years ago, the other students in the room chose to laugh and look the other way as sexual violence was perpetrated on me by Brett Kavanaugh. As I watch many of the Senators speak and vote on the floor of the Senate I feel like I'm right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way. Only this time, instead of drunk college kids, it is US Senators who are deliberately ignoring his behavior. This is how victims are isolated and silenced," Ramirez wrote.

She thanked the people who came forward as corroborating witnesses for her story who were not interviewed by the FBI.

Ramirez also expressed solidarity with survivors of sexual assault.

"There may be people with power who are looking the other way, but there are millions more who are standing together, speaking up about personal experiences of sexual violence and taking action to support survivors. This is truly a collective moment of survivors and allies standing together," she said in the statement.