Kavanaugh ‘Can No Longer Commit’ To Teaching Harvard Law Class in 2019

Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. ... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Brett Kavanaugh will no longer teach a class at Harvard Law School in January, school administrators told students in an email obtained by The Harvard Crimson Monday evening. 

“Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered,” Associate Dean and Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Catherine Claypoole told students in the email, according to the Crimson. A Kavanaugh spokesperson confirmed to the Crimson that Kavanaugh would not teach the three week class, which was going to be called “The Supreme Court Since 2005.”

Students, staff and alum from Harvard and Yale University, Kavanaugh’s alma mater, have protested Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court for the past several weeks, while allegations of sexual assault have been raised publicly against the federal judge. Harvard law students had called on the faculty to drop Kavanaugh’s teaching appointment over the the allegations.

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  1. Committing to jail time instead?

  2. How is that this mother fucker has a job in our judicial system?

  3. Like me ol’ ma used to say
    You want something to cry about, I’ll give you something to cry about.

    Privileged SOB thought he could sail through on that “privilege”
    Could have remained a broke in debt Federal judge , but your ego has put you in a world of hurt
    You get every consequence you deserve

  4. Senator Harris received a handwritten, anonymous, letter from a woman who claims, in fairly explicit detail, that Kavanaugh and another boy raped her in the back seat of a car. Kavanaugh was asked about the letter by Judiciary staffers and, of course, denied it. A transcript of the interview is on the Judiciary Committee’s website. The interview was done last Wednesday evening. The relevant portion starts on page 13.

    Here’s hoping that, if true, the woman can find the courage to come forward.

  5. Aw, poor little Kaveman-augh… Is this what being “wished into the cornfield” feels like…?

    Maybe he thinks he’ll be too busy working on the SCOTUS? Or maybe in jail? Or looking for work at the local Mcdonalds.

    Or maybe he just knows he wasn’t wanted there, and is “getting out ahead of it” like he did with the Ramirez allegations…

    Whatever it is, boo hoo…

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