Democrats will regret their latest Brett Kavanaugh smear

Published September 16, 2019 4:16pm ET



When the New York Times published a book excerpt this weekend from The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, the Left went bonkers reenacting the confirmation battle of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The article, though focused on Deborah Ramirez’s uncorroborated claim that while undergraduates at Yale, Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her, added a new charge: “A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hands of a female student.”

The story prompted at least five Democratic presidential candidates to demand Kavanaugh’s impeachment, including Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

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