Last year, the drama surrounding President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, dominated the month of September. Democrats, already frustrated by the successful confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch, were determined to derail Kavanaugh’s nomination — at all costs.
Once the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings commenced, following various attempts to delay, Democrats treated Kavanaugh with utter disdain. Though the process was arduous, the nominee held his own and was on his way to confirmation. But then, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s letter to California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, wherein she alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, was made public.
What followed was an obvious smear campaign against Kavanaugh. Now, we know that it was motivated by abortion politics all along.
In the media and at an additional hearing solely focused on the accusations, Kavanaugh’s character was viciously impugned. But after surviving every effort to take him down, Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Despite a complete lack of evidence that the justice ever harmed Ford or any other woman, many on the Left still consider Kavanaugh a predator who got away with it.
Many conservative skeptics assumed all along that Ford’s allegations were being used as a political weapon, but it’s been recently made clear that this was indeed the case, and that Ford was motivated in part by protecting Roe v. Wade. Debra Katz, a lawyer who represented Ford during the hearings, said as much:
That mission, further explained in a new book titled Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh, is one that ended in defeat for Democrats. But this is not only due to the fact that he was confirmed.
The abortion community’s fear that Kavanaugh would bring about more restrictions has not been realized. In his time on the bench, Justice Kavanaugh has actually disappointed pro-lifers who hoped he would usher in change at the highest level. In May, a Supreme Court decision on an abortion case became the second time expectations about Kavanaugh have not been met.
As Newsweek reported:
‘You’re going to see the right to life people very harshly criticizing Justice Kavanaugh because this is the second time he disappointed them by presumably … agreeing not to interfere with a decision below that is perceived as being pro-abortion,’ Napolitano, who previously served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge, said on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom after news of the top court’s decision broke.
The Left invested so much into trying to quash Kavanaugh, who they were certain would spell immediate doom for abortion rights. But so far, Kavanaugh’s record on the bench is less conservative than that of Gorsuch.
Did the pro-abortion Left overreact in part because of their rabid allegiance to a woman’s “right to choose?” Were they so blinded by a desire to destroy Kavanaugh’s nomination that they failed to read the judge and his history correctly? Yes.
In addition, the news that Ford’s motivation behind bringing allegations was partly due to the issue of abortion will only serve to make others question similar accusers in the present and future. In such a divided political climate, a chance to harm the enemy can be built on little more than vengeance. When the intended harm involves unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment or abuse it is downright egregious. In the quest to topple Kavanaugh, there was no thought of the future and lasting repercussions on women as a whole.
Democrats viewed Ford as the perfect tool in the battle over the future of the Supreme Court. Personally, I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has undergone some type of trauma in the past. While she may have been abused, the evidence, or lack thereof, shows that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was not the perpetrator. But the actual facts mattered not to Ford’s Democratic handlers and supporters.
The Left gained nothing from last year’s stunt. Blinded by hatred for Trump and self-admitted loyalty to Roe, they misjudged a nominee and threw future accusers under the bus. And now, we know it was all in an extreme effort to protect what they treasure most: abortion.
Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner‘s Beltway Confidential blog and a columnist at Arc Digital.
