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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrett Kavanaugh's High School Friend Isn't Helping the Nominee's Case
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-mark-judge-high-school-drunk-allegation-alcohol/Earlier this week, reports emerged that Capitol Hill Democrats had a letter from a woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were both in high school. The letter, since handed over to the FBI, reportedly describes an incident that allegedly took place in the DC-area, when Kavanaugh was a student at Georgetown Prep, a tony, all-boys school.
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The New York Times reported that the friend the woman alleged to be in the room with Kavanaugh was conservative writer Mark Judge, who attended Georgetown Prep with the nominee. On Friday, Judge told the Weekly Standard that no such incident took place. Its just absolutely nuts, he said. I never saw Brett act that way.
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But the school Judge has described in his books is a very different sort of place. In his 2005 book, God and Man at Georgetown Prep, which is now out of print, Judge apparently paints the school as overrun with gay priests who promote a form of liberalism that wrecks Catholic education. He also describes an institution where alcoholism was rampant, a theme he detailed in his 1997 addiction memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk.
That book chronicles Judges time as a teenage alcoholic. Like many works of the genre, it devotes a lot of ink to the kinds of debauchery that leads to AA and recovery. While theres nothing in the book that resembles the incident reportedly described in the private letter given to the FBI, Judge says his own black-out drinking while he and Kavanaugh were Georgetown Prep students reached the point where once I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated.
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The amount of drinking Judge describes himself undertaking might suggest that his memory of those days may not be entirely reliable.
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Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)
very helpful! ...and, that's a High School? I wonder what their college days were like...
duforsure
(11,885 posts)I suspect more to expose this liar and corrupt judge, and it be shown publicly and an major embarrassment to the republicans, and his nomination dropped. He'll be exposed sooner or later.
torius
(1,652 posts)shows she is not some random person pretending she knew KaveNot and the friend, she apparently did go to the school and knew the people she named. It also shows that her story of them drinking heavily is believable. He didnt say but I didnt drink, he just said Brett did not act that way. And many friends would say that, especially one with blackout-drinking memory problems.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)and I don't mean the river. Hoping for more skeletons to come out of their closet..... .......
No hard-core right-wing ideologues like Kavanaugh get to be where they are by being nice, humble citizens.....
Wouldn't this Judge guy have incentive to lie because otherwise it also implicates him of bad behavior too (even if he didn't perform the act, he allowed it to happen)