It’s Not About Kavanaugh: It’s About the Presumption of Innocence If a Supreme Court justice can’t be presumed innocent, what hope do the rest of us have? October 4, 2018 Daniel Greenfield "There is no presumption of innocence," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, of Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer was only echoing what other Democrats, including Senator Mazie Hirono, had been saying. Hirono had refused to concede that Kavanaugh had a presumption of innocence. Senator Chris Coons insisted that Kavanaugh "bears the burden of disproving these allegations." Similar arguments have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic,...
