It’s Susan Collins’s Moment William McGurn

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It’s Susan Collins’s Moment
William McGurn September 17, 2018

If Brett Kavanaugh were on trial for sexual assault, all he’d need do is demonstrate reasonable doubt about the charges being made against him. But a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court is tried in the media, where Mr. Kavanaugh must now do the impossible: prove an assault never happened.

Christine Blasey Ford alleges that at a high-school party 36 years ago, 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, tried to remove her clothes, and covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream. Ms. Ford, now a professor at California’s Palo Alto University, says she was able to flee the room only after a friend of Mr. Kavanaugh’s, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them and they all tumbled off the bed. Ms. Ford further says she didn’t tell anyone what happened at the time.

Judge Kavanaugh’s denial is categorical: “I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or anyone,” he said in a statement Monday. Mr. Judge likewise denies it all. “It’s just absolutely nuts,” he told the Weekly Standard. “I never saw Brett act that way.”

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"By all means let’s hear what Ms. Ford has to say. But let us hope Ms. Collins insists it not be at the expense of fairness to Judge Kavanaugh. Because right now the effort to put off his confirmation votes seems aimed at establishing an odious, new post-hearing precedent, whereby a single, inconclusive and uncorroborated #MeToo accusation can upend all Senate norms and leave a man with an otherwise sterling reputation twisting in the wind."