Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subjected to an unrelenting round of questioning by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) about allegations that a judge he clerked for, and remained associated with, harassed several female colleagues over the course of decades.
“To be clear, while this kind behavior on the part Judge Kozinski was going for 30 years, it was an open secret, you saw nothing, heard nothing, and you obviously said nothing,” Hirono said.
Kavanaugh, in previous questioning from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), had denied knowledge of the misconduct. Hirono asked Kavanaugh if he believed the Kozinski accusers who had come forward, and he said he had no reason not to.
At one point, Hirono would not let Kavanaugh repeat the lines from his previous testimony expressing concern about women being sexually harassed within the judiciary, and instead moved on with her questioning.
Hirono, in calling the alleged misconduct of ex-Judge Alex Kozinski an “open secret,” noted that law professors would discourage their female students from seeking clerkships under him.
Hirono also ticked through a number of details about Kavanaugh and Kozinski’s relationship, including that Kozinski introduced Kavanaugh at a confirmation hearing for a lower court judgeship.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI).
Had not heard much about her at all until last week. She sounds like a real bulldog–Don’t cross her!
Great!
So where are the logs from that porn server? Where are the addresses from the mailing list?
And yeah, it is not entirely implausible that Kavanaugh wouldn’t have heard anything directly, because why would you give information to your abuser’s allies and enablers?
Hirono was terrific.
She was the first Senator to lay it out that dotard was an unindicted co-conspirator and therefore had no right to appoint anyone until the investigation was over. Yup she is a bulldog, one of the good kind.
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(Apologies for x-posting, but there are like 75 separate threads for the Federalist Society’s most recent assault on democracy.)