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.
All of these people are coming out of the woodwork NOW? I’m not buying it.
So he was frequently drunk, stumbling around, yet finished FIRST in his class in High School...FIRST in his class in College...FIRST in his class in Law School...
Yeah....RIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!
Of course it will stop after he’s confirmed. There will no longer be any political mileage to be gained from it. Next it will be Trump’s tax returns or whatever the evil leftists next plot is deemed to be...which will also backfire.
more partisan liberals - democrats
Attacks will continue...
Ludington is the one who sat for the recent bar fight ice gate story.
If drinking in college is their criterion then they should all lose their careers and be barred from any employment for the rest of their lives. Let’s be fair!
I like they keyword thehillsucks.
That’s why my uncles and dad taught me to stop at a certain limit and made sure I was sober enough to think and move, in case the idiots make a “move”. I never drink at another person’s place that i dont know of after hearing one of my HS classmates was almost raped.
I’ve heard that Charles wears women’s clothing.
I’m wondering if Elizabeth and Lynne speak in little girl voices, too?
Per Twitter, Jeff Flake is troubled by this. He thinks it is horribly unfair that Brett Kavanaugh had buddies while he did not.
The pivot to drinking is hilarious and sad. What’s next, this:
Why should the Senate care what this bunch of drunks has to say?
Vote.
The Democratic Media Complex is just trying to keep their narrative alive.
I hope my drinkin buddies never have to talk to a pompous assed Senate committee. The stories they could tell.
Drinking buddies are rarely close friends. They are really someone you hang out to drink with. Given the background of these people this is another hit job, pure and simple. He was first in his class. Drunks are rarely that accomplished.
Keep digging Democrats! The midterms are very close!
Who cares?
When asked for a statement, Teddy Kennedy’s old buddies mumbled “no comment”......
With buddies like these who needs enemies.
Yale dowsn’t rank students, but he graduated Yale College cum laude. That is hard to do knockered. I doubt Klobucchar could ;
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