The reason Professor Ford’s lawyers don’t want an outside lawyer to ask questions is because they don’t want a woman to be the questioner. They prefer the optics of all male questioners. It shows how politically calculating her lawyers are.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 21, 2018

There’s really nothing these guys won’t try to reverse, like schoolchildren having an argument. He seems to think it’s not obvious the GOP wants a woman to question Prof. Ford to avoid the true image: a bunch of old white men attacking a sexual assault victim. https://t.co/IriAVJO1lY

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2018