You say pawn. I say tool. Same conclusion.
You can see why they wanted Judge Kavanaugh to go first, so she could do this act last, .. for final effect.
She has clearly been coached, so she in an active player in this shame. She is pretending to be innocent and naive. The way she described the polygraph as if she didn’t know what was going on just did not ring true. The performance she is putting on today just does not ring true with what else we know about her.