Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing
On September 27, 2018, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee heard emotional testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct.
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Win McNamee / Pool / Reuters Christine Blasey Ford Didn’t Come Forward in Vain
Over the course of two wrenching weeks, the woman sometimes caricatured as “Kavanaugh’s accuser” transformed from the most private of figures to the most public. She did not sacrifice—her image, her self—for nothing.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters National Reporters Are Transfixed by the Kavanaugh Story. How About Their Readers?
Viewership for the major news networks was high, but TV only tells half the story.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Brett Kavanaugh Is Patient Zero
President Trump’s nominee would bring a virus of illegitimacy and partisanship to the Supreme Court.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters This Was Never About Finding Out the Truth
Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate was a lesson in power—who wields it, and at whose expense.
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Mike Blake / Reuters America Is Finally Listening to Women. It’s Sparking a National Crisis.
Women are now powerful enough to disrupt the male-dominated consensus that in previous eras silenced them. But they are not yet powerful enough to get justice.
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POOL New / Reuters The Secret to Brett Kavanaugh’s Specific Appeal
The nominee’s transgressions, far from marking him as unfit, signal to his supporters that he is trustworthy—he is one of them.
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Win McNamee / AP Jeff Flake's Deal With Democrats Puts Kavanaugh's Nomination in Limbo
A deeply divided Senate Judiciary Committee advanced President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, but final confirmation will depend on a reopened FBI inquiry.
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Tom Williams / Reuters Don’t Pretend the Kavanaugh Facts are Unknowable
Lawyers make a living figuring out, methodically, who did what, when, where, how, and to whom.
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Tom Williams / AP Senate Republicans Are More Emboldened Than Ever to Confirm Kavanaugh
The mood in GOP circles was glum during Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony. But by Thursday’s end, lawmakers were confident enough to quickly schedule a vote.
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Win McNamee / Pool via AP Lindsey Graham’s Furious Defense of Brett Kavanaugh
The Trump critic turned ally called the confirmation process an “unethical sham” as tempers rose in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Reuters What's in It for Christine Blasey Ford?
The 51-year-old research psychologist testified with disarming and convincing simplicity on Thursday.
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Saul Loeb / Pool via AP Kavanaugh Goes Nuclear
The Supreme Court nominee furiously attacked Democrats and the Senate confirmation process in his opening statement Thursday.
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Michael Reynolds / AFP / GETTY Read Brett Kavanaugh’s Defiant Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
The Supreme Court nominee vehemently denied the sexual-assault allegations against him, adding that “this confirmation process has become a national disgrace.”
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty For Christine Blasey Ford to Be Believable, She Had to Be ‘Likable’
The professor’s moving testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has been, on top of so much else, a reminder of a pernicious stipulation given to women.
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Michale Reynolds / AP / Thanh Do / ... Once Christine Blasey Ford's Humanity Was on Display, It Was All Over
Testifying before the Senate, she showed what American politics might look like if Americans truly saw the people our society usually silences and grinds underfoot.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Is a Where-Were-You-When Moment
Outside the hearing room, ordinary men and women were glued to their phone, watching Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.
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Andrew Harnik / AFP / Getty Images Chuck Grassley's Jarring Presence at the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing
Republicans hired a prosecutor to question Christine Blasey Ford. But the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee kept interrupting her and everyone else.
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Reuters Christine Blasey Ford Is Her Own Expert Witness
In testifying about her alleged sexual assault, she used her expertise as a psychologist who understands trauma.
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Pool / Reuters What Mark Judge’s Absence Reveals
The conspicuous absence of the only other witness to an alleged assault committed by Brett Kavanaugh reveals a Senate hearing held in bad faith.
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Reuters The Kavanaugh Prosecutor Is Asking a Baffling Line of Questions
Rachel Mitchell may be laying the groundwork for future investigations with her interrogation of Christine Blasey Ford.
