The other guy

The New Yorker reported that the woman wrote in her letter [about being acosted in high school by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh] that “during an encounter at a party, Kavanaugh held her down, and that he attempted to force himself on her. She claimed in the letter that Kavanaugh and a classmate of his, both of whom had been drinking, turned up music that was playing in the room to conceal the sound of her protests, and that Kavanaugh covered her mouth with his hand.” Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.

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. “It’s just absolutely nuts,” he said. “I never saw Brett act that way.”

  Mother Jones

That was after he reportedly told The New Yorker, "I have no recollection of that." And, I presume, after he got a phone call from someone connected to Kavanaugh or Chuck Grassley.

In his opening statement at his confirmation hearing this month, Kavanaugh referenced his time at the Catholic institution with great reverence: “The motto of my Jesuit high school was ‘Men for others.’‌  I’ve tried to live that creed.”

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.

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While there’s 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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Judge has changed the names of many of the people in the book to protect their privacy, and he renames Georgetown Prep as “Loyola Prep.” [...] Consider this passage:

Bart O'Kavanaugh. Real camouflage, that.  ("Mary" must not be one of the 65 women who signed the Brett is a true gentleman letter.)

I don't think anybody should be too concerned about the possibility that Brett Kavanaugh was an irresponsible teenager. Plus, we had Antonin Scalia. And still have Clarence Thomas. So there's that. The fact that he's been lying (under oath) and dodging questions about it and much more is the problem now (see this article), and makes him totally unqualified to sit on the highest court in the land.

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