Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., just remarked that the Brett Kavanaugh nomination process will indicate “how seriously our society views credible allegations of sexual assault.” This is wrong, both in the sense that it’s incorrect and in the sense that it would be immoral to treat this nomination as a proxy for something completely different.

The question here is yes or no on a nomination. One reason for voting no (although Democrats were going to vote no anyway) would be a belief that Kavanaugh committed sexual assault at age 17 and lied to the committee about it yesterday.