She said, he imploded: how Brett Kavanaugh made the summer of ’82 beside the point

The focus on what can be proven or not about what happened to Christine Blasey Ford obscures the fact that Brett Kavanaugh has now, ironically enough, made it all about him.

Testifying at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, right, refuted Professor Christine Blasey Ford's account of him allegedly sexually assaulting her 36 years ago.Screenshots courtesy of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

October 3, 2018

Like most high-stakes political stories these days, the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh as a United States Supreme Court justice has been transformed by a second process. In it, competing narratives obscure the truth, and common sense gets drowned out by tactical warfare and the critical mas...

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