What Happened In The Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

Listening to C-SPAN again and it’s really interesting to hear people question Ford based on what they think they would have felt or done in that situation. One man wondered, “who puts a wet swimsuit on under clothes”? And a woman felt like she, herself, would have remembered the hand on her face the most, not the men laughing. There’s a lot here about the way we think memory does (or should) function.

“She is as much a victim of this as Brett Kavanaugh,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham in a heated interview with CNN.

Mitchell’s going to get a lot of criticism for being ineffective. But she was hired for her perceived expertise and non-partisanship, and maybe that’s what the GOP got. In her professional judgment, she thought Ford was basically credible — maybe not 100 percent accurate, but credible to the point where you sure as heck weren’t going to poke holes in her case in this very awkward format. So she punted, and let it be known that this wasn’t the right format, rather than trying to do so. I’m not sure I wouldn’t have done the same thing under the circumstances.