BRETT KAVANAUGH/HEARING/SENATE/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “In a crowded lounge at Yale Law School, cheers erupted when the middle-aged woman on the TV screen told a Senate panel that she had no doubt that Brett Kavanaugh, the Yale graduate nominated to the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her when they were teens. Like millions of Americans who tuned into the hearings, the young lawyers-in-training gathered on the New Haven campus hung on every word of the testimony, keenly aware of what the spectacle that was unfolding in Washington would mean for the political direction of the country for years to come. With the multiple sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged against Kavanaugh this month, his nomination has become enmeshed in a national debate over sexual misconduct. The conservative federal appeals court judge in his testimony on Thursday [9-27-18] angrily and tearfully denied he had sexually assaulted his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.”
–Gabriella Borter, “Kavanaugh’s fellow Yalies transfixed by Senate hearing,” Reuters, September 27, 2018 2:27 pm