I don’t really understand why you felt the need to link these hearings to the issue of due process in criminal trials. This is essentially a job interview. The standard isn’t “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” it’s “should this man have a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.” (Spoiler: No.)

All his raping and assaulting aside (cuz yeah, that’s how insane our world is, that that isn’t enough to dismiss someone and we still have to listen to these assholes) how on earth could anyone think he comported himself during this hearing in a manner befitting a Supreme Court Justice? He looks fucking incompetent…

I think part of his problem is that, before he became a judge, he spent a lot of time working in highly partisan GOP outfits. That’s not disqualifying, but it does make it harder for him to maintain the equanimity that most justices aspire to. Someone like Gorsuch, by contrast, spent almost entire career either as a…

Basically he said high school references to him puking are not because he drank too much, but because he has a weak stomach - and as an example he obliquely referenced ketchup on spaghetti (I guess something that has made him vomit?). He separately mentioned spicy food as making him puke. Basically everything makes…

Incorrectly IDing someone you never met is 25 universes away from incorrectly IDing someone you personally know and went to school with.

Kavanaugh’s angry tirade about accusations “coming from the left” puts me firmly in the no confirmation camp. That sort of outburst is not something I want to see coming from a Supreme Court justice nominee.

“An FBI investigation?! How dare you Senator! I have yelled and whined and cried before you today! My daughter has prayed for the lying slut! Therefore, my innocence is proven beyond any question! Good day, sir!”

It’s true that survivors have to be willing to report for there to be any hope of accountability (even though that hope is slim). But so many things could be done here to either corroborate Ford’s testimony or help exonerate Kavanaugh, and none of that was done. No FBI investigation, no process of interviewing other…

I can only speak for myself here. I was sexually assaulted and almost raped by a work colleague of mine. Only two people believed and cared - everyone else either didn’t believe me or shrugged it off with the usual, What were you wearing? (pajamas. I was asleep in bed). What was he doing at your place? (I let him…

This made me cry. Thank you for writing it. I’m just shaking with fury, grief, desolation, then fury again. This is not right. I can’t even type my story. I can’t imagine if he was up for Judge on the supreme court and I had to do this. I do not think I could. This is just so fucked up.

HE IS YELLING AT FEINSTEIN! OMG CAN YOU IMAGINE IF YOU GO TO A FUCKING JOB INTERVIEW AND YELL AND YOUR INTERVIEWER? BUT NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HIM BECAUSE HE IS A WHITE PRIVILEGED MAN

Ugh, I’m nauseous. The crazy aggression paired with this weepy “Why me?” crap is both disgusting and reminiscent of abuser behavior.

LOOK AT ALL THE PRIVILEGE I WAS BORN INTO AND LISTEN TO THE PRIDE IN MY VOICE AS I EMPHATICALLY TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE PRIVILEGE I WAS BORN INTO. BITSY AND MUFFY, WHO WENT TO HOLY SACRED BLEEDING HEART OF THE BLESSED FLOWERING VIRGIN, WILL TELL YOU I’M A GOOD MAN. NOW I’LL PRETEND THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE VERY ACT…

Like a true tough guy, Kavanaugh mentioned his mom, his wife and his daughter (who happened to say Dr. Ford’s name during her bedtime prayers last night!) in the first part of his opening statement. I’m not sure if that was before or after he blamed Democrats for all of his problems because it made me so angry, I…

She is supporting Dr. Ford. That is Ford’s lawyer in front of her. 

Christ, what a rapey, weepy asshole.

YOU CAN TELL ITS TRUE CUZ ITS LOUD.

This dude really likes beer, apparently.

He keeps saying “you’ve destroyed my family.” Has Mrs. Kavenaugh filed yet?