‘Serious omissions’ found in Senate probe of sexual misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh: report – By Alex Henderson (Alternet) / April 28, 2023
More than four and one-half years have passed since Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the U.S. Supreme Court, where he is now part of a 6-3 Republican-appointed supermajority. Kavanaugh’s confirmation by the U.S. Senate was a definite game changer. The retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who Kavanaugh replaced, was a right- Ronald Reagan appointee with libertarian views on abortion and gay rights; Kavanaugh was much more of a social conservative and voted to overturn Roe v. Wade with the High Court’s wildly unpopular Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling of 2022.
Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings of September 2018 were easily the most divisive, tense and polarizing since Justice Clarence Thomas’ nomination by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by attorney Anita Hill, but the allegations against Kavanaugh were even more troubling. Psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of attempting to sexually assault her back in 1982, and a few other women who knew Kavanaugh during the 1980s accused him of sexual misconduct as well.
One of them was Deborah Ramirez, who knew Kavanaugh from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Despite the allegations — all of which Kavanaugh vehemently denied — he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as a High Court justice on October 6, 2018.
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