“As a public figure, Kavanaugh would have a very hard time winning a defamation case. “
Not when it is clear it was intended to do harm. That is settle law. Any Internet idiot claiming otherwise is just an Internet idiot.
The key is absence of malice. Malice is evident in the extreme from this woman. She is in great legal jeopardy if she testifies untruthfully. In addition that letter will be entered into evidence in a lawsuit and Fienstein can not stop that. Fienstein is also on very thin ice. I have noticed that Fienstein has been rather silent the last few days.
If I’m wrong on the law then I stand corrected, but I don’t envision any scenario where a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice could ever pursue a civil lawsuit against someone like this.