Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, authors of Justice on Trail: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, ripped into the latest sexual misconduct allegation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a raucous Saturday evening tweet storm.
I’m actually kind of enjoying how bad this is
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 15, 2019
“So I’m reading the new anti-Kavanaugh book by shockingly (really) biased reporters at NYT,” Hemingway wrote. “All claimed anonymous sources are anti-Kavanaugh while all but a tiny few on-record sources are downright effusive. Just interesting how highly they contradict each other.”
Hemingway was referencing The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, which was written by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. The book highlights a previously unreported allegation of sexual assault against Kavanaugh and offers fortification for previous accusations Deborah Ramirez made.
“I haven’t really complained about lack of corporate media coverage of our exhaustively reported and researched book,” Hemingway also said. “In part because it’s a huge bestseller, so it seems wrong. But comparing it to the coverage of this (*shockingly* weak) book is making me want to complain.”
I haven’t really complained about lack of corporate media coverage of our exhaustively reported and researched book. In part because it’s a huge bestseller, so it seems wrong. But comparing it to the coverage of this (*shockingly* weak) book is making me want to complain.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 15, 2019
Hemingway and Severino’s book details specifically how unprovable accusations about his personal conduct marred Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation.
This is the blockbuster “new allegation” against Kavanaugh. Except it’s not actually new. It was shopped to Senate Democrats at the time and they apparently found it impossible to nail down, so they ignored it – the same Senators who found the “rape boat” allegations plausible. pic.twitter.com/0183DKr0q2
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) September 15, 2019
(Their description of Stier as a “respected thought leader” and BK classmate overlooks another time his paths crossed Kavanaugh’s: he was a member of Bill Clinton’s defense team back during the Lewinsky investigation.)
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) September 15, 2019
The latest accusation against Kavanaugh was published by the New York Times on Saturday, and alleges he exposed himself and put his penis in a woman’s hand during his time at Yale.
