There’s not much we can add to this story of a man who should have recused himself months ago..at Yale unsurprisingly there’s a plethora of opinion. If you can bear to read anymore this article provides some background
Brett Kavanaugh, touted by his alma mater when he seemed poised to join three other Yale Law School graduates on the Supreme Court, defended himself in an extraordinary hearing Thursday stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct, including one alleged to have taken place at Yale, where he was also an undergraduate.
On Thursday, about 70 law students gathered in a student lounge to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee question Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a California research psychologist who said Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her when the two were in high school.
Though Thursday’s hearing centered around an encounter alleged to have occurred in suburban Washington D.C., the years Kavanaugh spent at Yale have come under scrutiny during a strikingly bitter confirmation process.
The law school was closed to the press Thursday. Elsa Mota, a second year law student from Miami, said the mood inside was somber and tense. Earlier this week, hundreds of students staged a sit-in and walked out of class to protest Kavanaugh’s nomination after another woman, Deborah Ramirez, said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her while the two were classmates at Yale.
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The school itself has become a player in the saga. When Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump in July, the law school’s dean and three professors praised his brilliant and lucid legal opinions and mentorship of “a diverse set of clerks, in all respects.”
The dean, Heather Gerken, said she had known Kavanaugh “for many years,” and could “personally attest that, in addition to his government and judicial service, Judge Kavanaugh has been a longtime friend to many of us in the Yale Law School community.”
Some at the law school were “elated” at the time, Carl Jiang, a second year law student from Chicago, said on Thursday.
“This is an alum; this bolsters the credibility of the school,” Jiang, 25, recalled the line of thought. “We should be celebrating it.”
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