I like to label this aria the story of J and K.
It might seem a long while back, but most people will still have vivid recall of the Justice Brett Kavanaugh hearing. Kavanaugh’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was the most explosive since the doomed effort to install Robert Bork on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the tumultuous yet successful elevation of Justice Clarence Thomas.
I can’t say with certainty (because I’m not Conrad Black; he would know) that Justice Thomas’s nomination was the first time hearings were overshadowed by allegations of sexual harassment against the nominee. Anita Hill’s charges certainly changed the temperature of those hearings, and for good. Then Senators Ted Kennedy, a stalwart feminist, and Joseph Biden, made sure that they did.
They evolved — or devolved, your choice — from deep and dull drillings into a judge’s trial decisions and legal background, into full-on pryings into a candidate’s “private” history, and highly politicized, brutal partisan warfare.
Now in Kavanaugh’s case, bearing the brand of being a Trump nominee (think blood-red flags and a whole herd of angry bulls), everything was tautened to a ferocity of partisan war the likes of which, even in the U.S., had hardly been seen before.
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See Also:
(1) The Silence of the Media Lambs
(2) Democrats Demanded Millions Of Kavanaugh Records, But Stay Mum On Biden’s Senate Records
(3) Democrats Are Reaping The ‘Whirlwind’ Kavanaugh Warned About
(4) Tara Reade says ‘creepy’ voice messages, online harassment targeting her, family
(5) Media that branded Kavanaugh a rapist now a racket to protect Biden
