Nobody knows exactly who did what to whom, where, and how 35 years ago at a drunken high school party in Maryland. In contrast, everybody knows exactly what Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein are up to with their delays and alarmed proclamations about the need to hold up the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

The accusation of Christine Ford, who says Kavanaugh groped or sexually assaulted her in 1982, when he was 17 and she was 15, should not be entirely dismissed, even though they are clearly part of the Democrats’ cynical plan to deny President Trump his textualist nominee.