If U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wants to make a splash at the high-stakes U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, he should take a page out of Clarence Thomas's playbook and not even watch his accuser testify.
Kavanaugh has told all of us that not only did he not sexually assault Christine Blasey Ford, but that he never had any physical interaction with her. If that's the case, there's nothing for him to rebut. Whatever Ford says on Thursday that is relevant will be, in Kavanaugh's account, wholly untrue. That means there's no reason to go point by point through it.
I write with grave concerns about recent press reports on Christine Blasey Ford's claims of sexual assault by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. At present such reports are central to the issues at hand. I specifically write to you because I believe the political and rather cynical intent of these reports is to provide you, and others in the United States Senate, an apparently justifiable reason to vote against Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation. (I am not suggesting Ms. Ford is culpable for how these stories have been presented.)
