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PROLOGUE. NOSTOS: HOMECOMING

The next day, about four hundred: Kate Kelly, “Back at Georgetown Prep, Kavanaugh Is Hailed as a Hero,” The New York Times, October 28, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/politics/kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html.

During the years when it was still part: Stephen J. Ochs, Academy on the Patowmack: Georgetown Preparatory School, 1789–1927 (Rockville, MD: Georgetown Preparatory School, 1989), 48, 51. See also Georgetown University, “What’s a Hoya?,” accessed June 29, 2019, https://alumni.georgetown.edu/news/fast-facts-hoyas-should-know.

about six since the devastating accusation: Emma Brown, “California Professor, Writer of Confidential Brett Kavanaugh Letter, Speaks Out About Her Allegation of Sexual Assault,” Washington Post, September 16, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94e b-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.9603d597e1e3.

“live on the sunrise side of the mountain”: “Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to Students: Love Your Friends, Live on the Sunrise Side of the Mountain, and Stay Humble,” accessed June 29, 2019, https://www.law.edu/news-and-events/2018/05/2018-0529-Commencement2018.html.

his wife had been targeted: Emily Birnbaum, “CNN: Kavanaugh and His Family Getting Threats,” The Hill, September 20, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/407673-cnn-kavanaugh-and-his-family-getting-threats.

Nearly two hundred had signed: Letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell et al., Senate Judiciary Committee, July 9, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/kavanaughs-georgetown-prep-classmates.

describing Tobin Finizio: Kavanaugh hearing transcript, Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.c2541dcc5f2b.

CHAPTER 1. ALEA IACTA EST: THE DIE HAS BEEN CAST

At nine o’clock on the evening: Transcript and video of President Trump’s Kavanaugh nomination announcement, The New York Times, July 9, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-announcement-transcript.html.

her “‘oh, shit’ moment”: Michael Barbaro, “Senator Claire McCaskill on Losing Missouri and the Politics of Purity,” December 20, 2018, in The Daily, produced by Lynsea Garrison, podcast, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/podcasts/the-daily/senator-claire-mccaskill-missouri-interview.html.

“supremely qualified by the objective characteristics”: “Bush-Appointed DC Circ. Judge Vouches for Garland,” Law360, April 1, 2016, https://www.law360.com/articles/779549/bush-appointed-dc-circ-judge-vouches-for-garland+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.

had voted with him 93 percent of the time: Alex Swoyer, “Kavanaugh, Garland Voted Together 93 Percent of the Time,” The Washington Times, September 5, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/5/kavanaugh-garland-voted-together-93-pct-time/.

Kavanaugh only grudgingly made the short list: Clark L. Hildabrand, “Here’s Which People on Trump’s List Are Most Likely to Replace Anthony Kennedy,” The Federalist, June 29, 2018, https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/29/heres-people-trumps-list-likely-replace-kennedy/.

He had disappointed them with his 2011 opinion: Joan Biskupic, “Kavanaugh’s Obamacare Rulings Under Microscope as He Meets Manchin,” CNN, July 30, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/brett-kavanaugh-obamacare-joe-manchin/index.html.

The Federalist Society list was long: Hildabrand, “Here’s Which People on Trump’s List Are Most Likely to Replace Anthony Kennedy,” June 29, 2018.

“Bushy. Swampy. Chiefy”: Authors’ own reporting, but first published in Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, The Hill to Die On (New York: Crown, 2019), p. 303.

relatively low initial support: Harry Enten, “Brett Kavanaugh is the Least Popular Supreme Court Nominee in 30 Years,” CNN, September 20, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/brett-kavanaugh-least-popular/index.html.

“a land in which women”: NCC staff, “On This Day: Senate Rejects Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,” National Constitution Center, October 23, 2018, https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-senate-rejects-robert-bork-for-the-supreme-court/.

In Kavanaugh’s last two rounds . . . basis for such an investigation: David A. Graham, “How Kavanaugh’s Last Confirmation Hearing Could Haunt Him,” The Atlantic, July 17, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-kavanaughs-last-confirmation-hearing-could-haunt-him/565304/.

the Washington-area country club crowd: Authors’ own reporting, but first published in Sherman and Palmer, The Hill to Die On, p. 303.

had retired after six women accused him: Matt Zapotosky, “Prominent Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski Accused of Sexual Misconduct,” Washington Post, December 8, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html?ut m_term=.5f084cca7801. See also Niraj Choskshi, “Federal Judge Alex Kozinski Retires Abruptly After Sexual Harassment Allegations,” The New York Times, December 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/us/alex-kozinski-retires.html.

Kentuckian initially argued for his own pick: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, “McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options,” The New York Times, July 7, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/us/politics/trump-mcconnell-supreme-court.html.

Among Barrett’s skeptics, there was concern: Laurie Goodstein, “Some Worry About Judicial Nominee’s Ties to a Religious Group,” The New York Times, September 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/amy-coney-barrett-nominee-religion.html. See also Amy Coney Barrett and John H. Garvey, “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases,” Marquette Law Review 303, vol. 81 (1997–1998), https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1523&context=law_faculty_scholarship.

on July 2, when Kavanaugh was interviewed: Christopher Catelago, Nancy Cook, and Andrew Restuccia, “How a Private Meeting with Kennedy Helped Trump Get to ‘Yes’ on Kavanaugh,” Politico, July 7, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/09/brett-kavanaugh-trump-private-meeting-706137.

when the judge met with Vice President Mike Pence: Amy Howe, “Kavanaugh Returns Questionnaire,” SCOTUSblog, July 25, 2018, https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/07/kavanaugh-returns-questionnaire/.

Kavanaugh spoke again with Trump: Seung Min Kim, Ann E. Marimow, Robert Barnes, and Elise Viebeck, “Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Won’t Commit to Removing Himself from Cases Directly Affecting Trump,” Washington Post, September 5, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/kavanaugh-hearing-trumps-supreme-court-nominee-fac es-senate-grilling/2018/09/05/97fda1ac-b081-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html?utm_term=.525648ec4791.

Team Kavanaugh had another force . . . Trump’s son Donald Jr.: Catelago, Cook, and Restuccia, “How a Private Meeting.” See also Carl Hulse, Confirmation Bias (New York: HarperCollins, 2019), p. 208, and Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman, “Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening,” The New York Times, June 28, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/trump-anthony-kennedy-retirement.html?hp& action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&r egion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.

Kavanaugh had spent just a few years total . . . Monica Lewinsky scandal: Senate Judiciary Committee, “Questionnaire for Nominee to the Supreme Court,” accessed June 29, 2019, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brett%20M.%20Kavanaugh%20SJQ%20(PUBLIC).pdf.

“His judicial record spans”: J. D. Vance, “The Case for Brett Kavanaugh,” The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-for-brett-kavanaugh-1530572358.

CHAPTER 2. HOYA SAXA: WHAT ROCKS

Hoya Saxa: The Georgetown Preparatory School motto derived from Georgetown University’s motto. The date of first usage is not entirely clear but is estimated as 1840, when the university and the preparatory school was part of the same institution. See Stephen J. Ochs, Academy on the Patowmack: Georgetown Preparatory School, 1789–1927 (Rockville, MD: Georgetown Preparatory School, 1989), 51. See also Georgetown University, “What’s a Hoya?,” accessed June 29, 2019, https://alumni.georgetown.edu/news/fast-facts-hoyas-should-know.

a letter signed by nearly two hundred: Michael J. Bidwill et al. to Mitch McConnell et al., letter from Brett Kavanaugh’s Georgetown classmates, July 9, 2018, accessed at Senate Judiciary Committee site, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/kavanaughs-georgetown-prep-classmates.

An elite Jesuit boys’ school: Details in this chapter on Georgetown Preparatory School are informed by the authors’ reporting, often from interviews with alumni from the late 1970s and early and mid-1980s, as well as from readings from The Little Hoya, yearbooks, and other contemporaneous writings. For background on the founding of the school, see Ochs, Academy on the Patowmack; see also Mark Gavreau Judge, God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2005); see also “Prep History at a Glance” and “Notable Alumni” among other pages on the Georgetown Preparatory School website, https://www.gprep.org/about/prep-history-at-a-glance.

his father, Edward, started working: Scott Shane, Steve Eder, Rebecca R. Ruiz, Adam Liptak, Charlie Savage, and Ben Protess, “Influential Judge, Loyal Friend, Conservative Warrior—and D.C. Insider,” The New York Times, July 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/us/politics/judge-brett-kavanaugh.html; see also “Pamela G. Bailey to Be New President of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association,” BusinessWire, March 5, 2005, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050314006114/en/Pamela-G.-Bailey-New-President-Cosmetic-Toiletry.

Brett would still remember: Brett Kavanaugh hearing Senate Judiciary Committee opening statement transcript, September 4, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/full-text-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-opening-statements-806420.

Kavanaugh’s mother, Martha: Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearing opening statement transcript; see also Paul Schwartzman and Michelle Boorstein, “The Elite World of Brett Kavanaugh,” Washington Post, July 11, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-elite-world-of-brett-kavanaugh/2018/07/11/504d945e-8492-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html.

Partway through Brett’s years . . . she would become a judge: Schwartzman and Boorstein, “The Elite World of Brett Kavanaugh.”

won the prestigious Headmaster’s Award: Shane, Eder, et al., “Influential Judge,” The New York Times, July 14, 2018; see also Michael Walsh, “How Brett Kavanaugh’s Religious Upbringing Shaped His Thinking,” Yahoo News, July 12, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/news/brett-kavanaughs-religious-upbringing-shaped-thinking-131552610.html.

Brett didn’t have a car: Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.5043560df7e8.

A military-style social hierarchy: Authors’ reporting, but see also Evgenia Peretz, “Men for Others, My Ass: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep’s Culture of Omerta,” Vanity Fair, December 17, 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/inside-georgetown-prep-culture-of-omerta-scandal.

His extracurricular activities: See Brett Kavanaugh’s 1982 summer calendar, provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/brett-kavanaughs-calendar-from-1982/2332/; Kavanaugh hearing transcript from September 27, 2018; authors’ reporting.

But when drinking beer or palling around: Authors’ reporting; see also Marc Fisher, Anne Marimow, and Michael Kranish, “The Rise and the Reckoning: Inside Brett Kavanaugh’s Elite Circles of Influence,” Washington Post, October 4, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-rise-and-the-reckoning-inside-brett-kavanaughs-circles-of-influence/2018/10/04/bd8dcf4e-c677-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.dcaa2407 80b4; see also declaration of Paul Rendón to Senate Judiciary Committee, October 1, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/paul-rendon-declaration_-kavanaugh-nomination.

On Monday mornings before class: Authors’ reporting; see also declaration of Paul Rendón to Senate Judiciary Committee.

has called the boasts “horrible, hurtful”: Kate Kelly and David Enrich, “Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named,” The New York Times, September 24, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/brett-kavanaugh-yearbook-renate.html.

the parents also left town from time to time: Authors’ reporting; see also Peretz, “Men for Others, My Ass”; Mark Gavreau Judge, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1997).

As a junior . . . sent everybody home: Judge, Wasted, pp. 74–79.

Some criticized Bidwill: Seth Cox, “Reactions and Thoughts on the Michael Bidwill Situation,” SBNation, July 11, 2018, https://www.revengeofthebirds.com/2018/7/11/17559066/reactions-and-thoughts-on-the-michael-bidwill-situation-arizona-cardinals-brett-kavanaugh.

CHAPTER 3. INVENIAM VIAM AUT FACIAM: I WILL FIND A WAY OR MAKE ONE

Inveniam Viam aut Faciam: The Holton-Arms School’s motto.

Kavanaugh, who had turned seventeen . . . Anne Dougherty, and Chris Garrett: Authors’ reporting including interviews and excerpts of The Little Hoya, Georgetown Preparatory School’s official newspaper, from 1982 as well as Kavanaugh’s 1982 summer calendar, provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/brett-kavanaughs-calendar-from-1982/2332/. See also Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.c2541dcc5f2b.

“Because we were going to be seniors”: Mark Gavreau Judge, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1997), p. 92.

show up hungover: Judge, Wasted, p. 93.

“When I was in town”: Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018.

Founded by two Washington women . . . light of knowledge: Kathy Orton, “Kalorama Condominiums Were Once the Holton-Arms School for Girls,” Washington Post, February 1, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/kalorama-condominiums-were-once-the-holton-arms-school-for-girls/2019/01/31/297f16da-20e2-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.78b0ade12fd8; see also “First Lady Biography: Jackie Kennedy,” National First Ladies’ Library, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=36; and also “Holton-Arms History,” Holton-Arms school site, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.holton-arms.edu/about/history-of-holton-arms.

“In class, she always contributed”: Jessica Contrera, Ian Shapira, Emma Brown, and Steve Hendrix, “Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Moved 3,000 Miles to Reinvent Her Life. It Wasn’t Far Enough,” Washington Post, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.7915d422d455.

Tuition was in line with Prep’s: Eric Pianin and Washington Post staff writer, “Private Schools Widely Oppose D.C. Tax Credit,” Washington Post, October 24, 1981, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/10/24/private-schools-widely-oppose-dc-tax-credit/d31dab9a-4532-49ea-9595-331a385a6200/?utm_term=.dcc6fcfe932a.

Blasey accompanied Garrett to several: Christine Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.5043560df7e8.

swimming and practicing diving: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018.

One evening after a day: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018.

She does have a visual memory: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, and also authors’ reporting.

she went upstairs to use the bathroom: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, and also authors’ reporting.

Here is how she describes it: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, and also authors’ reporting.

He urged Kavanaugh on . . . as they descended: Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, and also authors’ reporting.

She remembers getting a D: Contrera, Shapira, Brown, and Hendrix, “Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Moved 3,000 Miles to Reinvent Her Life”; authors’ reporting on additional details.

California agreed with Blasey: Contrera, Shapira, Brown, and Hendrix, “Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Moved 3,000 Miles to Reinvent Her Life”; authors’ reporting on additional details; Christine Blasey résumé, accessed in Senate Judiciary Committee memorandum on November 2, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf.

In 2012, she shared the broad contours: Russell Ford declaration to the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 25, 2018.

At one point the Fords argued . . . a few of her friends in Palo Alto: Christine Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018; declarations to Senate Judiciary Committee of Keith Koegler, Adela Gildo-Mazzon, September 24, 2018, and Rebecca White, September 25, 2018.

Over a pizza dinner: Declaration of Adela Gildo-Mazzon, September 24, 2018; authors’ reporting.

The topic arose again three years later: Declaration of Keith Koegler, September 24, 2018; authors’ reporting.

One evening the following year: Declaration of Rebecca White, September 25, 2018.

That same morning, Ford followed: Christine Blasey Ford WhatsApp texts, Friday, July 6, 2018, accessed through Senate Judiciary Committee report on November 2, 2018.

Four days after that: Christine Blasey Ford WhatsApp text, Friday July 10, 2018, accessed through Senate Judiciary Committee report on November 2, 2018.

CHAPTER 4. LUX ET VERITAS: LIGHT AND TRUTH

Lux et Veritas: The Yale University motto.

“We had basketball every day”: Brett Kavanaugh interview with Senate Judiciary Committee, Sept. 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/092518-bmk-interview-transcript-redacted.

writing about sports for the Yale Daily News: Brett Kavanaugh, “Lackluster Yale Needs a Boost,” Yale Daily News, January 15, 1986.

Rusty Sullivan, another sportswriter: Alanna Durkin Richer and Jennifer Peltz, “At Yale, Kavanaugh Stayed Out of Debates at a Time of Many,” August 28, 2018, https://apnews.com/ce93f04d0594441ebe14f7cfb2442f11.

Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, or DKE: John Davenport, “Fraternities Are No Laughing Matter,” Yale Daily News, January 31, 1986.

Lynne Brookes, who was captain: Aaron C. Davis, Emma Brown, and Joe Heim, “Kavanaugh’s ‘Choir Boy’ Image on Fox Interview Rankles Former Yale Classmates,” Washington Post, September 25, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2018/09/25/ea5e50d4-c0eb-11e8-9005-5104e9616c21_story.html.

after attending a UB40 concert: Emily Bazelon and Ben Protess, “Kavanaugh Was Questioned by Police After Bar Fight in 1985,” The New York Times, October 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/kavanaugh-bar-fight.html.

Washington Post Magazine article about redecorating: Jura Koncius, “Making Sense of a Many Splendored Collection,” Washington Post, May 5, 1985, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1985/05/05/making-sense-of-a-many-splendored-collection/acc781f1-80ed-4666-a875-2c5419b6c653/.

Ramirez said the guys kept picking her: Authors’ own reporting, but first published in Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, “Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years,” The New Yorker, September 23, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez.

Michael Wetstone, another classmate: Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, “The F.B.I. Probe Ignored Testimonies from Former Classmates of Kavanaugh,” The New Yorker, October 3, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-the-fbi-ignore-testimonies-from-kavanaughs-former-classmates.

CHAPTER 5. ONUS PROBANDI: THE BURDEN OF PROOF

She had participated in a local Women’s March: Julia Prodis Sulek, “Christine Blasey Ford Feared an Avalanche of Attacks if She Went Public About Kavanaugh, Friends Say,” The Mercury News, September 17, 2018, https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/17/metoo-spurred-christine-blasey-ford-to-open-up-about-alleged-attack-year-before-kavanaugh-nomination-friends-say/.

Her political donations in recent years: Federal Election Commission individual contribution records, accessed June 30, 2019.

“Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually”: “Read Christine Blasey Ford’s Initial Letter to Dianne Feinstein,” Axios, September 23, 2018, https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-feinstein-letter-9337f417-1078-4334-8a81-c2b4fc051f99.html.

She had no intention of telling: Christine Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018; authors’ reporting.

On August 7, a former FBI agent: Jeremiah Hanafin, Christine Blasey Ford polygraph examination report, August 10, 2018, in Senate Judiciary Committee memo; authors’ reporting.

Ford filled a legal-pad page: Christine Blasey Ford, handwritten account of alleged assault, August 7, 2018, in Senate Judiciary Committee memo.

The examination rested: Jeremiah Hanafin, Blasey Ford polygraph report, August 10, 2018; see also photograph of Christine Blasey Ford taken during August 7, 2018, polygraph test, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/26/christine-blasey-fords-polygraph-test-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations/1434270002/.

CHAPTER 6. AMBITIO: AMBITION, OR COURTING THE VOTE

his accumulated debt: Amy Brittain, “Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Piled Up Credit Card Debt by Purchasing Nationals Tickets, White House Says,” Washington Post, July 11, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html.

Also in the mix was Bill Shine: Katherine Krueger, “Ex-Fox News Exec Who Allegedly Helped Cover Up Harassment Is Helping Prep Brett Kavanaugh,” Splinter News, September 19, 2018, https://splinternews.com/ex-fox-news-exec-who-allegedly-helped-cover-up-harassme-1829175692.

Even Senators Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham: Seung Min Kim, “Republicans Drill Kavanaugh in Mock Hearings in Preparation for Real Questioning,” Washington Post, August 30, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-drill-kavanaugh-in-mock-hearings-in-preparation-for-real-questioning/2018/08/30/dd4b853c-ac9c-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html.

Nevertheless, Kavanaugh achieved a strong enough record: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Questionnaire, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brett%20M.%20Kavanaugh%20SJQ%20(PUBLIC).pdf.

“He had one of the most impressive résumés”: Judge Walter K. Stapleton statement at Kavanaugh confirmation hearing for D.C. Circuit, C-SPAN video, May 6, 2006, 00:22:45, https://www.c-span.org/video/?192420-1/brett-kavanaugh-testifies-dc-circuit-confirmation-hearing-2006.

In a 1991 Yale Law Journal article: Alex Kozinski, “Confessions of a Bad Apple,” Yale Law Journal, 1991, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7349&context=ylj.

“my good friend”: Judge Alex Kozinski statement at Kavanaugh confirmation hearing for D.C. Circuit, C-SPAN video, May 6, 2006, 00:31:43, https://www.c-span.org/video/?192420-1/brett-kavanaugh-testifies-dc-circuit-confirmation-hearing-2006.

“Learned from the master” . . . “being a judge means”: Alex Kozinski and Brett Kavanaugh on panel, Life on the Bench, video, National Lawyers Convention, November 14, 2015, https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/life-on-the-bench-event-audio-video.

“was a gut punch for me”: Brett Kavanaugh testimony, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, September 5, 2018, C-SPAN video, 1:22:24, https://www.c-span.org/video/?449705-1/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-confirmati on-hearing-day-2-part-1&playEvent&start=4897.

video of naked women skydiving: Emily Peck, “Brett Kavanaugh and the Men Who Say Nothing,” Huffington Post, September 25, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kavanaugh-kozinski-harassment-silence_n_5baa8151e4b0f101d38375ab.

“This last response leaves me wondering”: Heidi Bond, “I Received Some of Kozinski’s Infamous Gag List Emails. I’m Baffled by Kavanaugh’s Responses to Questions About Them,” Slate, September 14, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/kavanaugh-kozinski-gag-list-emails-senate-hearings.html.

“McCarthyism, pure and simple”: Steven Calabresi, “Brett Kavanaugh and His Association with Alex Kozinski,” The Hill, August 12, 2018, https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/401468-brett-kavanaugh-and-his-association-with-alex-kozinski.

Kavanaugh later described his phone call from Priest: Ryan J. Foley and Curt Anderson, “Kavanaugh’s Ties to Disgraced Mentor Loom Over Confirmation,” Associated Press, August 29, 2018, https://apnews.com/e37ba9bc11014b72a5db6f926f80eb42.

“that often meant, in the Yale Law School environment”: Brett Kavanaugh speech to American Enterprise Institute, “From the Bench: Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Constitutional Statesmanship of Chief Justice William Rehnquist,” September 18, 2017, https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/from-the-bench.pdf.

“none of us can say that Judge Kavanaugh stood out”: Letter to Judiciary Committee, August 27, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/23-classmates-from-yale-law-school-class-of-1990-to-grassley-feinstein_-kavanaugh-nomination.

“‘What happens on the bus stays on the bus’”: Pema Levy, “Brett Kavanaugh Gave a Speech About Binge Drinking in Law School,” Mother Jones, September 17, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-gave-a-speech-about-binge-drinking-in-law-school/.

“limited dance moves”: Hailey Fuchs and Adelaide Feibel, “A Sports Junkie Who Ate Pasta with Ketchup: Law School Friends Reflect on Kavanaugh’s Time at YLS,” Yale Daily News, July 12, 2018, https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/07/12/a-sports-junkie-who-ate-pasta-with-ketchup-law-school-friends-reflect-on-kavanaughs-time-at-yls/.

Kenneth Christmas . . . during the confirmation hearings: Statement of Kenneth C. Christmas, Jr., before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, September 7, 2018 https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Christmas%20Testimony.pdf.

Kavanaugh named as the tenth an employment discrimination case: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Questionnaire, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brett%20M.%20Kavanaugh%20SJQ%20(PUBLIC).pdf.

As a law student: Brett M. Kavanaugh, “Defense Presence and Participation: A Procedural Minimum for Batson v. Kentucky Hearings,” Yale Law Journal, 1989, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7241&context=ylj.

“a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process”: Adam Liptak, “Excluding Black Jurors in Curtis Flowers Case Violated Constitution, Supreme Court Rules,” The New York Times, June 21, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/politics/curtis-flowers-supreme-court-in-the-dark-podacast.html.

he’d scribble on a whiteboard the pros and cons of a given case: Nina Totenberg, “Examining What Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement Means,” NPR, June 28, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624165381/examining-what-justice-anthony-kennedy-s-retirement-means.

“I am strongly opposed to giving the President any ‘break’ in the questioning”: Brett Kavanaugh memo to the Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, 1998, https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/kavanaugh8.15.98.pdf.

“It makes no sense at all to have”: Brett Kavanaugh, “Independent Counsel Statute Future” speech at Georgetown University Law Center, C-SPAN video, February 19, 1998, https://www.c-span.org/video/?101056-1/independent-counsel-statute-future.

“a scenario whereby the President and the independent counsel are adversaries”: Brett Kavanaugh, “The President and the Independent Counsel,” Georgetown Law Journal, 1998, https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BrettMKavanaughThePreside.pdf.

“if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden”: Brett Kavanaugh, “Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond,” Minnesota Law Review, 2009, http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf.

“sweet” and “the All-American girl”: Greg Jaklewicz and Timothy Chipp, “Abilenians Fondly Regard Ashley Estes, Wife of Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh,” Abilene Reporter-News, July 13, 2018, https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/local/2018/07/13/abilene-tx-love-wife-trump-supreme-court-nominee-ashley-estes-kavanaugh/778674002/.

President Bush and the first lady hosted a sit-down dinner: Marc Fisher, Ann E. Marimow, and Michael Kranish, “The Rise and the Reckoning: Inside Brett Kavanaugh’s Circles of Influence,” Washington Post, October 4, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-rise-and-the-reckoning-inside-brett-kavanaughs-circles-of-influence/2018/10/04/bd8dcf4e-c677-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html.

“the first lifetime appointment” he’d arranged for Kavanaugh: White House Office of the Press Secretary, “President Attends Swearing-In Ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,” June 1, 2006, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060601-4.html.

“a more partisan record than any single nominee”: Remarks from Senator Chuck Schumer, “Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to Be Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit,” April 27, 2004, https://www.congress.gov/108/chrg/shrg24853/CHRG-108shrg24853.htm.

a pragmatic approach to the bench: Edith Roberts, “Potential Nominee Profile: Brett Kavanaugh,” SCOTUSblog, June 28, 2018, https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/potential-nominee-profile-brett-kavanaugh/.

the so-called “Eureka dinners”: Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Dining Club Emails Reveal Kavanaugh’s Close Ties to Trump’s Solicitor General,” The Guardian, October 25, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/25/brett-kavanaugh-eureka-club-noel-francisco-emails.

Even the ACLU recognized that Kavanaugh had been sympathetic: ACLU, “Report of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to Be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court,” August 15, 2018, https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/final_aclu_report_on_judge_brett_m_kavanaugh.pdf.

an expert on battered women’s syndrome: Brett Kavanaugh opinion in U.S. v. NWOYE, June 10, 2016, https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20160610132.

“He wrote a primer essentially on the defense of battered women’s syndrome for lawyers”: Remarks from A. J. Kramer, “Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Day 4, Part 2,” September 7, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/09-04-2018-kramer-testimony.

“I myself do not know what his views are on the political issues of the day”: Remarks from Rebecca Taibleson, “Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Day 4, Part 2,” September 7, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/taibleson-testimony.

“sudden drop” in female law clerks on the Supreme Court: Linda Greenhouse, “Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices’ Clerks,” The New York Times, August 30, 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/washington/30scotus.html.

“He said, ‘You’re a mom coming to clerk’”: Remarks from Sarah Pitlyk at Heritage Foundation panel, “Who Is Brett Kavanaugh?—A Closer Look at Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee,” August 9, 2018, https://www.heritage.org/courts/event/who-brett-kavanaugh-closer-look-trumps-supreme-court-nominee.

The judge himself demonstrated: Schwartzman and Boorstein, “The Elite World of Brett Kavanaugh.”

“opening these doors for a new generation of women lawyers”: Remarks from Maureen E. Mahoney, “Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Day 4, Part 2,” September 7, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/mahoney-testimony.

Kavanaugh liked his clerks to have a “certain look”: Emily Peck, “Brett Kavanaugh Liked Female Clerks Who Looked a ‘Certain Way,’ Yale Student Was Told,” Huffington Post, September 19, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yale-student-brett-kavanaugh-clerkship-look_n_5ba2f051e4b0181540d9e2bb. See also: Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Jessica Glenza, “‘No Accident’ Brett Kavanaugh’s Female Law Clerks ‘Looked Like Models,’ Yale Professor Told Students,” The Guardian, September 20, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua.

CHAPTER 7. VIDES STYGIAM PALUDEM: YOU ARE GAZING AT THE STYGIAN SWAMP

nearly three-quarters of the votes: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Post-Election Report for November 8, 2016, presidential general election, accessed June 30, 2019, https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Resources/Documents/Statistics/ROV%20Post-Election%20Report%20Oct%202017%20Rev.-%20November%208%202016%20Presidential%20General%20Election.pdf.

Late in August, after Ford began: Christine Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.5043560df7e8.

The Republicans maintained that the volume: Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, “Republicans Won’t Budge on Kavanaugh Documents Amid Dem Accusations of Hiding Records,” CNN, August 2, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/brett-kavanaugh-documents-republican-not-budging/index.html.

ushered out by Ashley: Jim Daly, “Kavanaugh’s Daughters Should Not Have to Watch Their Dad Being Bullied—When Is All of This Going to Stop?,” Fox News, September 5, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kavanaughs-daughters-should-not-have-to-watch-their-dad-being-bullied-when-is-all-of-this-going-to-stop.

At 5:24 p.m. on Wednesday: Ryan Grim, “Dianne Feinstein Withholding Brett Kavanaugh Document from Fellow Judiciary Committee Members,” The Intercept, September 12, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-dianne-feinstein/.

Feinstein publicly acknowledged: Seung Min Kim, Twitter, September 13, 2018, https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1040283042202443776.

“Two officials familiar with the matter”: Nicholas Fandos and Catie Edmonson, “Dianne Feinstein Refers a Kavanaugh Matter to Federal Investigators,” The New York Times, September 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-dianne-feinstein.html.

“Upon receipt of the information”: Kristina Peterson and Jess Bravin, “Feinstein Relays Allegation About Kavanaugh to FBI,” The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-discussed-solicitor-generals-post-with-trump-transition-team-1536859134.

saw a story on the website ThinkProgress: Ian Millhiser, “Brett Kavanaugh Has a Mysterious #MeToo Problem,” ThinkProgress, September 13, 2018, https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-has-a-mysterious-metoo-problem-5a24b572d72d/.

On September 14, the Ford allegations surfaced: Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, “A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress,” The New Yorker, September 14, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-sexual-misconduct-allegation-against-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-stirs-tension-among-democrats-in-congress.

Working quickly through a network: Chris Geidner, Tarini Parti, and Zoe Tillman, “Here’s How that Letter from 65 Women Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Came Together So Quickly,” BuzzFeed News, September 14, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-women-letter-chuck-grassley.

“Through the more than 35 years”: Jennifer Slye Aniskovich et al., Letter to Charles Grassley and Dianne Feinstein about Brett Kavanaugh, September 14, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/2018-09-14-65-women-who-know-kavanaugh-from-high-school_-kavanaugh-nomination.

CHAPTER 8. IUDICANS IUDICEM: JUDGING THE JUDGE

On September 16, the world learned: Emma Brown, “California Professor, Writer of Confidential Brett Kavanaugh Letter, Speaks Out About Her Allegation of Sexual Assault,” Washington Post, September 16, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.b1e0b23bf5c9.

was pressuring Feinstein to brief: Ryan Grim, We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement (Washington, D.C.: Strong Arm Press, 2019), 372; authors’ reporting.

Early in the week of September 10: Authors’ reporting; see also Brian Stelter, “Post Reporter Says Kavanaugh Accuser ‘Was Terrified of Going Public,’” CNN Business, September 17, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/16/media/reliable-sources-09-16-18/index.html.

Russell, driving one of their sons: Jessica Contrera, Ian Shapira, Emma Brown, and Steve Hendrix, “Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Moved 3,000 Miles to Reinvent Her Life. It Wasn’t Far Enough,” Washington Post, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html.

would end up spending about $22 million: Chris Walker, “Conservative ‘Dark Money’ Group Spent $22 Million to Promote Brett Kavanaugh,” Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019, https://hillreporter.com/conservative-dark-money-group-spent-22-million-to-promote-brett-kavanaugh-36289.

The National Rifle Association also spent large sums: “NRA-ILA Launches Major Advertising Campaign Urging Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh,” August 7, 2018, https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180807/nra-ila-launches-major-advertising-campaign-urging-confirmation-of-judge-brett-kavanaugh.

accused her of wanting to “assist”: Nicholas Fandos, “Dianne Feinstein Rode One Court Fight to the Senate. Another Has Left Her Under Siege,” The New York Times, September 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html.

he unequivocally denied: Brett Kavanaugh interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 17, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.17.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf.

Susanna Jones, its head of school: Valerie Strauss, “High School Attended by Kavanaugh’s Accuser Says It Is ‘Proud’ of Her for Speaking Up,” Washington Post, September 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/17/high-school-attended-by-kavanaughs-accuser-comes-out-support-her/.

Twenty-three members of Ford’s 1984 class: Allyson Abrams Bergman et al., Letter to Congress on Christine Blasey Ford, September 17, 2018, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ba01d0c3917ee078e3c3da8/t/5ba106b86d2a739e1b8b15d7/1537279672511/Letter+to+Congress+-+Holton+Class+of+1984.pdf.

More than six hundred Holton alumnae: Sarah Burgess et al., “We Stand with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford,” accessed June 30, 2019, https://www.standwithblaseyford.com/.

“her worst fears have materialized”: Debra S. Katz and Lisa J. Banks, Letter to Charles Grassley, September 18, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-09-25%20Ford%20Document%20Production.pdf.

Ford had been targeted . . . the lawyers argued: Katz and Banks, Letter to Charles Grassley.

“I do not recall the party”: Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder, Letter to Charles Grassley and Dianne Feinstein regarding Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, September 18, 2018, https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1042146479073374209/photo/1.

“I have no knowledge of the party”: Eric B. Bruce, Letter to Charles Grassley and Dianne Feinstein regarding confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, September 18, 2018, accessed via Senate Judiciary Committee November 2, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/2018-09-18-smyth-to-judiciary-committee_--ford-allegations.

The GoFundMe campaign: “Help Christine Blasey Ford,” GoFundMe.com, initiated September 18, 2018, https://www.gofundme.com/help-christine-blasey-ford.

The Palo Alto community also showed its support: Bay Area News Group, “Supporters of Christine Blasey Ford Rally on the Ground, in the Air—‘Her Story Is Our Story,’” The Mercury News, September 20, 2018, https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/20/photos-palo-alto-moms-rally-in-support-of-christine-blasey-ford/; see also George Kelly, “Hundreds Attend Vigil in Palo Alto to Support Christine Blasey Ford,” The Mercury News, September 23, 2018, https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/23/thousands-attend-vigil-in-palo-alto-to-support-blasey-ford/.

Mike Davis, Grassley’s lieutenant, trumpeted on Twitter: Todd Ruger, “Judiciary Staffer’s Tweets Fuel Fight Over Kavanaugh Accuser,” Roll Call, September 20, 2018, https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/staffers-tweets-fuel-fight-kavanaugh-accuser.

Then Edward Whelan, a friend of Kavanaugh’s: Morgan Sung, “Man Tries to Use Zillow to Prove Kavanaugh’s Innocence and Ends Up Owning Himself,” Mashable, September 20, 2018, https://mashable.com/article/ed-whelan-uses-zillow-kavanaugh-innocence-conspiracy-theory/.

Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican: Zack Beauchamp, “Ed Whelan’s Tweets Have Created a Second Kavanaugh Scandal,” Vox, September 21, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17886430/brett-kavanaugh-news-ed-whelan-trump.

“mistaken identity” argument: Seung Min Kim, Josh Dawsey, and Emma Brown, “Kavanaugh Accuser Won’t Testify Monday but Open to Doing so Later Next Week,” Washington Post, September 21, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-vows-to-move-ahead-with-kavanaugh-vote-if-his-accuser-doesnt-testify-monday/2018/09/20/a7132ee8-bcf5-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?noredire ct=on&utm_term=.91ecea8c2aae.

Whelan . . . later apologized: Ed Whelan, Twitter, September 21, 2018, https://twitter.com/EdWhelanEPPC/status/1043117304152817664.

“no recollection of ever being at a party”: Burgess Everett, “Woman Denies Attending Party Where Alleged Kavanaugh Assault Occurred,” Politico, September 22, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/22/kavanaugh-ford-woman-party-letter-836913.

The following day, Keyser told: Kim, Dawsey, and Brown, “Kavanaugh Accuser Won’t Testify Monday.”

she had parlayed her athletic talent: “Women’s Golfers Say Goodbye to Their First-Ever Head Coach,” The Hoya, October 21, 2005, https://www.thehoya.com/womens-golfers-say-goodbye-to-their-first-ever-head-coach/; see also, “Women’s Golf Head Coach Leland Keyser Resigns,” Georgetown Athletics, October 12, 2005, http://www.guhoyas.com/news/2005/10/12/Women_s_Golf_Head_Coach_Leland_Keyser_resigns.aspx.

She had lost a boyfriend after a diving accident: Leakas v. Columbia Country Club, civil case filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, July 9, 1993, https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/831/1231/1802366/.

captured on film by Daily Mail reporters: Laura Collins, “‘Christine Ford Threw Her Under the Bus.’ . . .” Daily Mail, October 3, 2018, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6235463/Christine-Fords-high-school-friend-blindsided-named-corroborating-witness.html.

“Okay. So we’re on the same page”: Brett Kavanaugh interview with Senate Judiciary Committee, September 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.25.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf.

appeared on PBS NewsHour: Video and transcript of Travis Lenkner interview, PBS NewsHour, September 25, 2015, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kavanaugh-supporter-we-have-all-the-information-we-need-on-yale-allegation.

CHAPTER 9. INNOCENS: THE INNOCENT

“I cannot imagine her making this up”: Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, “Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years,” The New Yorker, September 23, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez.

Garry, now a high school teacher and coach: Louisa Garry, “Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to Be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, Day 4, Part 1,” C-SPAN video, September 7, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4750840/louisa-garry.

The Washington Times then published an article: Victor Morton, “Kavanaugh Accuser Deborah Ramirez Refuses to Talk to Congress: ‘Read the New Yorker,’” Washington Times, September 25, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/25/deborah-ramirez-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-wont-testi/.

“Neither The New Yorker nor The New York Times”: Stephanie Saul, Robin Pogrebin, Mike Mcintire, and Ben Protess, “In a Culture of Privilege and Alcohol at Yale, Her World Converged with Kavanaugh’s,” The New York Times, September 25, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/deborah-ramirez-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html.

Kavanaugh . . . cited the Times’s decision not to publish: Brett Kavanaugh interview with Senate Judiciary Committee, September 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.25.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf.

Julie Swetnick came forward with her own alarming accusations: Declaration of Julie Swetnick, September 25, 2018, http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2018/09/26/swetnickstatement.pdf.

three thousand Yale women signed an open letter: “Open Letter from Women of Yale in Support of Deborah Ramirez,” September 24, 2018, https://medium.com/@yalewomenforwomen/open-letter-from-women-of-yale-in-support-of-deborah-ramirez-685bf4bb84f0.

More than fifteen hundred Yale men issued a similar letter: “An Open Letter from Men of Yale in Support of Deborah Ramirez, Christine Blasey Ford and others,” September 25, 2018, https://medium.com/@yalemen80s/an-open-letter-from-men-of-yale-in-support-of-deborah-ramirez-christine-blasey-ford-and-others-ffc878fd600a.

CHAPTER 10. LEGE DURA VIVUNT MULIERES: WOMEN LIVE UNDER A HARSH LAW

On September 24, Koegler: Declaration of Keith Koegler declaration on Christine Blasey Ford, September 24, 2018, Senate Judiciary Committee memo, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf.

Ford’s husband, Russell, along with her close friends: Declarations of Russell Ford, Adela Gildo-Mazzon, and Rebecca White on Christine Blasey Ford, September 24, 2018 and September 25, 2018, Senate Judiciary Committee memo, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf.

Hoffman said later: Reid Hoffman’s full statement on the matter, provided May 25, 2019 to authors: “As Dr. Blasey Ford was preparing to testify before Congress, Mark Pincus and I received word that she needed assistance in getting to Washington in as safe a way as possible, and we were asked to help. At that point, it was widely known that she was receiving serious violent threats. In order to serve the public interest, Dr. Blasey Ford was clearly taking a huge personal risk. So, we agreed to help provide transportation so she could she could give her sworn testimony. We did so because we believed then, as we do now, that it is important to take seriously accusations of violence against women.” In a subsequent statement, provided June 17, 2019, to authors, Mark Pincus said: “My motivation to do this, in addition to what Reid said already, was that I wanted to make sure that she had a chance to be heard.”

in the wake of the Washington Post story: Emma Brown, “California Professor, Writer of Confidential Brett Kavanaugh Letter, Speaks Out About Her Allegation of Sexual Assault,” Washington Post, September 16, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html.

“categorically” . . . “a hearing as soon as possible”: Lisa Mascaro, “Kavanaugh Denies Allegation of Sexual Misconduct in School,” Associated Press, September 14, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/ee8c3ce45bd5427a8830c6eb6ff42e1f; see also Kasie Hunt and Rebecca Shabad, “Kavanaugh: I Will Attend Monday Hearing ‘So That I Can Clear My Name,’” NBC News, September 20, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kavanaugh-preps-senate-testimony-assault-allegations-n911441.

White House could decide Kavanaugh wasn’t worth: Gabriel Sherman, “‘The Strategy Was to Try and Do Something Really Big’: Trump Wanted to Nuke Rosenstein to Save Kavanaugh’s Bacon,” Vanity Fair, September 24, 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/trump-wanted-to-nuke-rosenstein-to-save-kavanaughs-bacon; see also Christina Wilkie, “Trump: ‘I Could Be Persuaded’ to Change Mind on Kavanaugh after Hearing,” CNBC, September 26, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/trump-i-could-be-persuaded-to-change-mind-on-kavanaugh-after-hearing.html.

a group of Democratic Senators sent a letter: Statement from Amy Klobuchar et al., September 20, 2018, https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/9/klobuchar-harris-other-senators-who-served-as-prosecutors-and-attorneys-general-urge-the-president-to-direct-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation-to-reopen-its-background-investigation-into-judge-brett-kavanaugh.

an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: Janet Hook, “Opposition to Kavanaugh Nomination Grows Among Voters, New Poll Shows,” The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/opposition-to-kavanaugh-nomination-grows-among-voters-new-poll-shows-1537477360.

Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley, received death threats: Kristina Peterson, Peter Nicholas, and Natalie Andrews, “Kavanaugh Accuser Open to Negotiations to Testify Before Senate Panel,” The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/senators-in-standoff-over-handling-of-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-1537451055; see also Nicole Darrah, “Brett Kavanaugh, Wife, and Christine Blasey Ford All Receiving Death Threats,” Fox News, September 21, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brett-kavanaugh-wife-and-christine-blasey-ford-all-receiving-death-threats-graphic-language.

He worked with Beth Wilkinson: Ariane de Vogue and Eli Watkins, “Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford to Testify on Assault Allegations in Public Monday,” CNN, September 17, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/brett-kavanaugh-testimony/index.html.

He and his wife tried to explain: Brett and Ashley Kavanaugh interview with Martha MacCallum, Fox News, September 24, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/kavanaugh-i-never-sexually-assaulted-anyone.

“I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone”: And other details from Fox News interview, Brett and Ashley Kavanaugh interview with Martha MacCallum, Fox News.

reports . . . that Ramirez had been calling around: Saul et al., “In a Culture of Privilege and Alcohol at Yale, Her World Converged with Kavanaugh’s,” The New York Times, September 25, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/deborah-ramirez-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html.

Swetnick’s claims that he and Mark Judge: Declaration of Julie Swetnick, September 25, 2018, http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2018/09/26/swetnickstatement.pdf.

“We had numerous conversations”: Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos, “Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved,” The New York Times, October 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html.

“I’m stronger than mule piss”: Baker and Fandos, “Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved.”

Kavanaugh and his close high school friends: Kate Kelly and David Enrich, “Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named,” The New York Times, September 24, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/brett-kavanaugh-yearbook-renate.html.

Kavanaugh denied having boasted . . . any of the Prep boys: Kelly and Enrich, “Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named.”

Tiverton, Rhode Island, man named Jeffrey Catalan: See Senate Judiciary Committee memo, November 2, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf; see also Janine Weisman, “Crank Calls Directed at Kavanaugh Accuser Bombard Newport Woman Overnight,” The Newport Daily News, September 27, 2018, https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180927/crank-calls-directed-at-kavanaugh-accuser-bombard-newport-woman-overnight/1.

tip sent to Senator Kamala Harris’s San Diego office: Senate Judiciary Committee memo, November 2, 2018.

Judy Munro-Leighton later claimed credit: Letter from Charles Grassley to Jeff Sessions and Christopher Wray on “fabricated allegations,” November 2, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/grassley-to-justice-dept-fbi_-munro-leighton-referral-.

Ford’s testimony played out like a master class in authenticity and simplicity: Christine Blasey Ford Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.28ec87d58caf; see also video of hearing, C-SPAN video, September 27, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?451895-1/professor-blasey-ford-testifies-sexual-assault-allegations-p art-1&playEvent.

CHAPTER 11. INDE IRA ET LACRIMAE: THEN ANGER AND TEARS

calls jumped 147 percent: Abigail Abrams, “National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked 147% During Christine Blasey Ford Hearing,” Time, September 27, 2018, https://time.com/5409239/national-sexual-assault-hotline-spike-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/.

Ashley Judd, Ellen DeGeneres: Nicholas Hautman, “Ellen DeGeneres, Mariska Hargitay and More Stars Support Christine Blasey Ford During Brett Kavanaugh Hearing,” Us, September 27, 2018, https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stars-support-christine-blasey-ford-during-brett-kavanaugh-hearing/.

Emmy Rossum, and other prominent celebrities: Natasha Penrose, “Women Are Thanking Dr. Ford for Her Bravery on Twitter,” Elle, September 27, 2018, https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a23493387/twitter-reactions-christine-ford-kavanaugh-hearing/.

Sally Field: Sally Field, Twitter, September 27, 2018, https://twitter.com/sally_field/status/1045354845660635136.

Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts: Spencer Buell, “Charlie Baker: Kavanaugh Accusations ‘Are Sickening and Deserve an Independent Investigation,’” Boston Magazine, September 27, 2018, https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/09/27/baker-kavanaugh-sickening/.

“I thought her testimony was very compelling”: NBC News Tweet of Trump comments, Twitter, September 28, 2018, https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1045740388663873536.

Chris Wallace pronounced Ford’s testimony a “disaster”: German Lopez, “Fox News’s Chris Wallace on the Kavanaugh Hearing: ‘This Is a Disaster for the Republicans,’” September 27, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/27/17910490/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearing-fox-news-chris-wallace.

Mike Cernovich wrote on Twitter: Jenna Amatulli, “Conservatives, Right-Wing Media Respond to Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony,” Huffington Post, September 27, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-christine-blasey-ford-testimony-kavanaugh-hearing_n_5bacfc7ee4b0425e3c2123e6.

“Heartbreaking, credible, and compelling”: Elizabeth Warren, Twitter, September 7, 2018, https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1045357573724151811.

Graham told the press scrum that Ford was “a nice lady”: Paul McLeod, “Lindsey Graham Says Christine Blasey Ford Hasn’t Convinced Him to Oppose Kavanaugh,” BuzzFeed News, September 27, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/lindsey-graham-lashed-out-ford-allegations-political.

Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy: Meghan Keneally, “Mixed Reactions to Kavanaugh and Ford’s Differing Testimony,” ABC News, September 27, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/US/heartbreaking-credible-compelling-reactions-christine-blasey-fords-testimony/story?id=58126112.

Rachel Mitchell would say in her final report: Rachel Mitchell memorandum to Senate Republicans, September 30, 2018, https://static.politico.com/28/7f/80157df74b96bb352b10f8b7aa66/09-30-18-mitchell-memo-ford-allegations.pdf.

The closest Ford could come: In an interview with Michael Judge, Mark Judge’s older brother, author was told that Mark did, in fact, work at the Potomac Village Safeway during the summer of 1982. Mark writes about the job, without identifying the store, on p. 98 of his book Wasted: “I spent a few weeks working as a bag boy at a local supermarket.”

Louellen Welsch: “How Americans Across the Country Are Reacting to Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony,” The New York Times, September 27, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/dr-ford-kavanaugh-reaction.html.

Ralph’s public comments: Jessica Contrera and Ian Shapira, “Christine Blasey Ford’s Family Has Been Nearly Silent Amid Outpouring of Support,” Washington Post, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-fords-own-family-has-been-nearly-silent-amid-outpouring-of-support/2018/09/26/49a3f4a6-c0d6-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.667cf7d28236.

1996 foreclosure case: Kyra Haas, “Fact-checking False Link Between Foreclosure Case, Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations,” Politfact, September 20, 2018, https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2018/sep/20/blog-posting/kavanaughs-mother-dismissed-foreclosure-case/.

Burning Tree Golf Club: Ben Schreckinger and Daniel Lippman, “Power Elite of Suburban Washington Split over Kavanaugh Allegations,” Politico, September 17, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/power-elite-of-suburban-washington-split-over-kavanaugh-allegations-826318.

Senator Schumer and his colleagues: Authors’ reporting; see also Ryan Grim, We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement (Washington, D.C.: Strong Arm Press, 2019), pp. 374–375.

Just before noon, as the judge was escorted: AP News, Video of Brett Kavanaugh’s departure from Chevy Chase home, September 27, 2018, accessed on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBV3hhzI02s.

“You need to reboot the room”: Carl Hulse, Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington’s War over the Supreme Court, From Scalia’s Death to Justice Kavanaugh (New York: HarperCollins, 2019), p. 253.

“Less than two weeks ago, Dr. Ford publicly accused”: Brett Kavanaugh Opening Statement, September 27, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/27/brett-kavanaugh-opening-statement-senate-hearing-vpx.cnn. For full hearing transcript of Brett Kavanaugh’s September 27, 2018, hearing, see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.ced0255926ca.

Twitter posts to mock and degrade almost anyone: Michael D. Shear and Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Calls Omarosa Manigault Newman ‘That Dog’ in His Latest Insult,” The New York Times, August 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/politics/trump-omarosa-dog.html; see also Christina Caron, “Trump Mocks LeBron James’s Intelligence and Calls Don Lemon ‘Dumbest Man’ on TV,” The New York Times, August 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/sports/donald-trump-lebron-james-twitter.html.

“The Judge as Umpire”: Brett M. Kavanaugh, “The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles,” Catholic University Law Review, June 22, 2016, https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3383&context=lawreview.

CHAPTER 12. FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS?: FALSE IN ONE THING, FALSE IN ALL THINGS?

“Brett stood up there and lied about who he was”: Lynne Brookes, “Kavanaugh ‘Lied’ in Interview, Drank to Excess, Classmate from Yale Says,” Good Morning America video, ABC News, https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/kavanaugh-lied-interview-drank-excess-classmate-yale-58146577.

“It wasn’t drunk to the point of having trouble getting up every month or two”: James Roche, CNN video, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/03/kavanaugh_freshman_roommate_i_saw_him_do_stuff_he_said_under_oath_he_didnt_do.html.

“So angry, so disgusted, so sad”: Mike McIntire, Linda Qiu, Steve Eder, and Kate Kelly, “At Times, Kavanaugh’s Defense Misleads or Veers off Point,” The New York Times, September 28, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-fact-check.html.

“It’s the twilight zone”: Brett Kavanaugh interview with Senate Judiciary Committee, September 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.25.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf.

Dan Murphy and Chris Dudley: Brian Reis et al., “Two More Yale Classmates Release Statements on Kavanaugh,” CNN, October 1, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-oct-18/h_3d80c164e1cc62a398f3dd1d37ac41d8.

“To the day I die, I’ll believe that he did not do this”: Tom Kane interview on CNN, Twitter, https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1045639045588475906.

“assuming that there are any lines anymore”: Benjamin Wittes, “I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him,” The Atlantic, October 2, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/why-i-wouldnt-confirm-brett-kavanaugh/571936/.

“a howl of rage”: Wittes, “I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him.”

More than 2,400 law professors: “The Senate Should Not Confirm Kavanaugh,” The New York Times, October 3, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-law-professors-letter.html.

One of the most stinging critiques: Adam Liptak, “Retired Justice John Paul Stevens Says Kavanaugh Is Not Fit for Supreme Court,” The New York Times, October 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/john-paul-stevens-brett-kavanaugh.html.

Mark Osler and Michael Proctor: Michael Proctor and Mark Osler, Letter to Charles Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, October 2, 2018, https://www.scribd.com/document/389979642/Kavanaugh-classmates-withdraw-support#from_embed?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=38395X1559799Xd4612ee955477affac51b7fd6c9e2950&keywo rd=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate.

“I would defy anyone not to be angry about that”: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “A New Front in the Kavanaugh Wars: Temperament and Honesty,” The New York Times, October 1, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-temperament-honesty.html.

“what is the proper amount of anger”: David French, “The Complete Case for Kavanaugh,” National Review, October 5, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/kavanaugh-case-for-confirmation-allegations-explained/.

CHAPTER 13. CONCORDIA ORDINUM: AGREEMENT AMONG THE RANKS

Both had spent time in Africa: Mary Clare Jalonick, “From Africa to the Anteroom: Flake, Coons Forge Rare Bond,” Associated Press, October 2, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/31b4e77aa91549e9a1a34b39777ecb75.

Flake intended to vote for Kavanaugh: Jordain Carney, “Flake Says He Will Vote to Confirm Kavanaugh,” The Hill, September 28, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408914-flake-says-he-will-vote-to-confirm-kavanaugh.

Michael Dukakis was criticized in 1988 for a lack of emotion: “Dukakis’ Deadly Response,” Time, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1844704_1844706_1844712,00.html.

On his way into the elevator: Video of the confrontation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshgOZ8QQxU.

“All of us should remember”: Remarks by Ted Cruz at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, September 28, 2018, C-SPAN video, https://www.c-span.org/video/?452084-1/senator-flake-calls-delaying-kavanaugh-vote-fbi-background-check-reopen&live.

“You know me—you know I try to be fair”: Remarks by Chris Coons at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, September 28, 2018, CNN, September 28, 2018, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/28/ip.01.html.

Ashley Kavanaugh had asked family and friends to pray Psalm 40: Benjamin Gill, “What Dr. Dobson and Ashley Kavanaugh Are Praying for the Kavanaugh Family & America,” Christian Broadcasting Network News, October 1, 2018, https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/october/what-dr-dobson-and-ashley-kavanaugh-are-praying-for-the-kavanaugh-family-and-america.

CHAPTER 14. CONFIRMATIO—SED QUIS CUSTODIET CUSTODES?: CONFIRMATION—BUT WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHERS?

President Trump said the FBI agents would have “free rein”: Remarks by President Trump, C-SPAN video, September 29, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?452287-2/president-trump-fbi-investigation-kavanaugh-blessing-disguise.

“I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion”: Donald Trump, Twitter, September 29, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1046230634103025664?lang=en.

Klobuchar said on CBS’s Face the Nation: Amy Klobuchar on CBS Face the Nation, September 30, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sen-amy-klobuchar-on-face-the-nation-sept-30-2018/.

Kellyanne Conway fired back: Remarks by Kellyanne Conway on CNN’s State of the Union, September 30, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/politics/kellyanne-conway-kavanaugh-fbi-cnntv/index.html.

Keyser had provided a statement: Leland Keyser statement to Judiciary Committee, September 22, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-09-22%20Keyser%20to%20Committee%20Investigators%20-%20Ford%20Allegations.pdf.

Through a lawyer, McLean: Monica McLean’s full statement—a statement provided to the Wall Street Journal during the confirmation process, as well as a new statement provided for the publication of this book—is as follows: “Any notion or claim that Ms. McLean pressured Leland Keyser to alter Ms. Keyser’s account of what she recalled concerning the alleged incident between Dr. Ford and Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely false. Also false is any notion or claim that Ms. McLean, either directly or indirectly, threatened to disclose personal information about Ms. Keyser. To the contrary, Ms. McLean stressed to Ms. Keyser the importance of providing truthful information to the Senate Judiciary Committee and urged her to obtain counsel from her attorney.”

“the simple and unchangeable truth”: Grace Segers, “Christine Blasey Ford’s Friend Clarifies Statement About Alleged Assault by Brett Kavanaugh,” CBS News, September 29, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christine-blasey-ford-friend-leland-keyser-clarifies-statement-about-alleged-assault-by-brett-kavanaugh/.

Judge and Smyth also met with the FBI: P. J. Smyth statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, September 18, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/2018-09-18-smyth-to-judiciary-committee_--ford-allegations; see also Mark Judge statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, September 18, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-09-18%20Judge%20to%20Grassley,%20Feinstein%20(Kavanaugh%20Nomination).pdf.

“We lit each other’s underwear on fire”: Mark Gavreau Judge, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1997), p. 56.

hiding away in the Bethany Beach, Delaware, home: Gabriel Pogrund, Carol D. Leonnig, and Aaron C. Davis, “‘How’d you find me?’: Mark Judge Has Been Holed Up in a Beach House in Delaware amid a Media Firestorm,” Washington Post, September 24, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/howd-you-find-me-mark-judge-has-been-holed-up-in-a-beach-house-in-delaware-amid-a-media-firestorm/2018/09/24/9d4829aa-c041-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.4df6f2bd4c6a.

Yarasavage was one of ten women from Kavanaugh’s class who signed a letter: Yale College women letter to Senate Judiciary Committee, August 30, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-08-30-Yale-College-Women-in-Support-of-Kavanaugh-FINAL.pdf.

Kavanaugh was also asked: Brett Kavanaugh interview with Senate Judiciary Committee, September 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.25.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf.

Senator Orrin Hatch asked: Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.c3fa18cd4e28.

Bob Bauer . . . remarked to NBC News: Heidi Przybyla and Leigh Ann Caldwell, “Text Messages Suggest Kavanaugh Wanted to Refute Accuser’s Claim Before It Became Public,” October 1, 2018, NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/mutual-friend-ramirez-kavanaugh-anxious-come-forward-evidence-n915566.

“After we were made to jump through several hoops”: Przybyla and Caldwell, “Text Messages Suggest Kavanaugh Wanted to Refute Accuser’s Claim Before It Became Public.”

George Hartmann, a Grassley spokesman: Przybyla and Caldwell, “Text Messages Suggest Kavanaugh Wanted to Refute Accuser’s Claim Before It Became Public.”

National Review article on his confirmation: Rich Lowry, “Was Leland Keyser the Hero of the Kavanaugh Controversy?,” National Review, October 8, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/was-leland-keyser-the-hero-of-the-kavanaugh-controversy/.

Bromwich and Katz sent a letter to FBI director: Brett Samuels, “Attorneys for Ford Say They Haven’t Heard from FBI about Kavanaugh Investigation,” The Hill, October 2, 2018, https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/409552-attorneys-for-ford-say-they-havent-heard-from-fbi-in-investigation.

“My mantra is distrust but verify”: Ian Schwartz, “Sen. Blumenthal on Kavanaugh Investigation, ‘Distrust But Verify,’” RealClear Politics, October 1, 2018, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/01/blumenthal_on_kavanaugh_investigation_distrust_but_verify.html.

“‘I had one beer’”: “Trump Mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony at Mississippi Rally,” CBS News, October 2, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-testimony-make-america-great-again-rally-mississippi-landers-center-2018-10-02/.

Flake called them “appalling”: Jonathan Allen, “Trump Mocks Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford at Campaign Rally,” NBC News, October 2, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061?fbclid=IwAR2rHfS5uLeOu0F0-sl_Z35L2wGmIO3zGD5Kh57YdOlYkYaHhwcC87PzSaE.

Murkowski told reporters: Kristina Peterson, “Murkowski: Trump Comments ‘Absolutely, Wholly Unacceptable,’” October 3, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/kavanaugh/card/1538584273.

Even Grassley took to Twitter: Chuck Grassley, Twitter, October 3, 2018, https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1047516105567363073.

In a Washington Post op-ed, Coons: Senator Chris Coons, “We Need the Facts on Kavanaugh. Here’s How the FBI Can Get Them,” The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-what-the-fbi-investigation-into-the-kavanaugh-allegations-should-look-like/2018/10/02/8709d4e8-c65b-11e8-9158-09630a6d8725_story.html?utm_term=.69b77c320bce.

Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee sent Grassley a letter: Richard Durbin et al., Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 3, 2018, https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Letter%20to%20Chairman%20Grassley%20-%20October%203,%202018.pdf.

McConnell took to the Senate floor: Jordain Carney, “McConnell Slams Anti-Kavanaugh Protests, ‘Intimidation Tactics,’” The Hill, October 3, 2018, https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/409654-mcconnell-slams-anti-kavanaugh-protests-intimidation-tactics.

Rosenstein was dealing with reports that he had secretly recorded President Trump: Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment,” The New York Times, September 21, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html.

a twenty-eight-year friend of Ramirez’s signed a sworn affidavit: Madeline St. Amour, “Another Witness Who Offered to Speak with FBI Comes Forward in Deborah Ramirez Case,” Daily Camera, October 4, 2018, https://www.dailycamera.com/2018/10/04/another-witness-who-offered-to-speak-with-fbi-comes-forward-in-deborah-ramirez-case/.

Jen Klaus, one of Ramirez’s former roommates: Heidi Przybyla, “The Battle over Accusations Goes on as Kavanaugh Nomination Advances,” NBC News, October 5, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/battle-over-accusations-goes-kavanaugh-nomination-advances-n917136.

“no suggestion of mistaken identity was made”: Heidi Przybyla, “The Battle over Accusations Goes on as Kavanaugh Nomination Advances.”

The committee had also heard from Ford’s graduate school boyfriend, Brian Merrick: Senate Judiciary Report, November 2, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf.

McConnell announced that its results would not be made publicly available: Igor Bobic and Arthur Delaney, “Mitch McConnell Says FBI’s Kavanaugh Report Won’t Be Made Public,” Huffington Post, October 2, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-fbi-kavanaugh-report-public_n_5bb3c909e4b0876eda992325.

a special soundproof reading room: “How Senators Read the FBI Report on Kavanaugh: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know” The Heavy, October 4, 2018, https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/fbi-report-kavanaugh-senate-scif/.

The viewing began at 8 a.m.: Daniel Chaitin, “Here Is the Schedule for Senators to View the FBI’s Kavanaugh Investigation Report on Thursday,” Washington Examiner, October 3, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/here-is-the-schedule-for-senators-to-view-the-fbis-kavanaugh-investigation-report-on-thursday.

Tim Kaine . . . tweeted: Tim Kaine, Twitter, October 4, 2018, https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/1047887516387479552.

“There’s nothing in it that we didn’t already know”: Jack Crowe, “Grassley: Nothing in FBI Report ‘We Didn’t Already Know,’” National Review, October 4, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/news/chuck-grassley-nothing-new-fbi-brett-kavanaugh-report/.

On October 5, the Senate voted to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination to a final vote: Annie Daniel, Jasmine C. Lee, and Sarah Simon, “How Every Senator Voted on Advancing Kavanaugh’s Confirmation,” The New York Times, October 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/05/us/politics/kavanaugh-live-vote-procedural.html.

Ramirez had identified to the FBI the “eyewitnesses”: Heidi Przybyla, “The Battle over Accusations Goes On as Kavanaugh Nomination Advances.”

a forty-five-minute speech: Transcript of Susan Collins’s speech, The New York Times, October 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/us/politics/susan-collins-speech-brett-kavanaugh.html.

the traditional ivory gavel: “The Senate’s New Gavel,” U.S. Senate website, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Senates_New_Gavel.htm.

“I do not consent. I do not consent”: Gina Martinez, “‘I Do Not Consent.’ Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Vote Was Interrupted Multiple Times by Screaming Protesters,” Time, October 6, 2018, https://time.com/5417844/i-do-not-consent-kavanaughs-confirmation-vote-was-interrupted- multiple-times-by-screaming-protesters/.

“The ayes are fifty,” Pence said. “The nays are forty-eight”: The Guardian, YouTube video, October 6, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0uqdwjiUbo.

EPILOGUE. HAMARTIA: MISSING THE MARK

“Blackouts are like a philosophical riddle”: Sarah Hepola, “Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory,” The New York Times, September 29, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/brett-kavanaugh-drinking-blackouts.html.

he wrote in an op-ed: Brett Kavanaugh, “I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge,” The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-am-an-independent-impartial-judge-1538695822.

Quinnipiac poll: “More U.S. Voters Say Don’t Confirm Kavanaugh, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; More Voters Believe Ford Than Kavanaugh,” October 1, 2018, https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2574.