On Sunday, while waiting for Thursday’s scheduled hearing featuring Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, another sexual misconduct allegation surfaced.

On second thought, “surfaced” is too generous a term to describe the flimsy, 11th-hour claim revealed as news by The New Yorker. In it, Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University with Kavanaugh, describes an incident during a party where the eventual Supreme Court nominee supposedly exposed himself and encouraged Ramirez to touch him. But her assertion contains many noticeable flaws: not only is it decades-old, but any eyewitness testimony is entirely lacking – as stated in the piece itself, although conveniently mentioned well below the headline.