Posted on 10/04/2018 7:09:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A group of former Yale University students who referred to themselves "drinking buddies" with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are calling for the Senate to vote against his confirmation.
The former classmates of Kavanaugh's— Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher — wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post on Thursday that they spoke out publicly because of what they felt like were dishonest statements from Kavanaugh during a Fox News interview and during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
"We each asserted that Brett lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing," they write.
"We said, unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk."
The three write that they "disrupted" their own lives by coming forward about Kavanaugh's alleged drinking.
"None of this is what we wanted, but we felt it our civic duty to speak the truth and say that Brett lied under oath while seeking to become a Supreme Court justice," they write, adding that they believe telling the truth is a "moral obligation for our nation’s leaders."
"No one should be able to lie their way onto the Supreme Court," they add, before concluding that they believe "that Brett neither tells" the truth or is an embodiment of courage.
"For this reason, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on the nation’s highest court," they write.
The op-ed comes a week after Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding claims from Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her during a high school party in the 1980's.
Kavanaugh has fiercely denied the accusation.
Kavanaugh said during his testimony that while he “likes beer,” he never has blacked out from drinking.
In addition to Ludington, Brookes and Swisher, Jamie Roche, who shared a dorm with Kavanaugh at Yale, wrote in an op-ed for Slate on Wednesday that Kavanaugh "baldly" lied under oath about his drinking habits.
The Senate is set to move ahead with a procedural vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Friday.
Wow, some buddies.
These are the kinds of buddies everyone wants.
more paid mouths
I guess it depends upon what the definition of “drunk” is....
I seeiously wonder if Kegel and WiseLatina would have survived if all the damaging things they did in high school and college was put into evidence as disqualifying material thirty years down the road.
I am so glad the democrat sh!tshow is about to end.
Tell me about it. None of these people are his friends. Just another bunch of lefty punks trying to BS people.
The hatred of Trump is incredible that they throw their “friend” under the bus. Had Kavanaugh been nominated by a Democrat, they’smsing his praises.
Leftist Liars is what they are.
Ludington was a campaign volunteer for Bill Clinton.
All of them are Lying Leftists.
This stuff is disgusting.
Leftists have no scruples WHATSOEVER, and will lie, cheat, steal, and sell their own children to get what they want. Btw, are they also going to print the opportunity-eds from his many supporters from his past?
I have never drank to the point I have forgotten things because I was drunk. Never.
Now, I also can say I have forgotten things that I have done, but it has nothing to do with me ever being drunk and forgetting things because I was drunk.
We all forget things we’ve done over time. Not even being drunk to forget.
Hey ‘drinking buddies’ how about if you all get thrown off your jobs as well for doing the same. Any takers? Scums.
Dude on right: "Yeah ... my finger is bigger!"
OP-eds, NOT opportunity eds! (WTH IS an opportunity-ed, spellchecker???)
Bros don’t rat out bros. Ergo, they’re not his buddies.
enough “Swift Voting” of the nominee with false charges...
LOL!
The first thing these accusers admit is how reluctant they are to “come out”
As if their initial reluctance is supposed to legitimize their propaganda.
yep they are friends of rameri. They wanted to be interviewed by the FBI so now they are doing this. Also Ludington is one of these guys he is the one who told the infamous ice throwing bar fight story ealier.
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