What Mark Judge’s Absence Reveals
The strongest evidence that Senate Republicans want to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the nation’s highest court, regardless of what he may have done, was the conspicuous absence of Mark Judge from the hearing they held on Thursday.
Christine Blasey Ford, who testified under oath before the Senate on Thursday that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her while they were both teenagers, has identified Judge, a conservative writer and childhood friend and classmate of Kavanaugh’s at the tony D.C.-area Georgetown Prep private in Delaware. Although they did not call Judge to appear, Senate Republicans did go through the effort to hire Rachel Mitchell, an Arizona sex-crimes prosecutor, to cast doubt on Ford’s credibility while avoiding the spectacle of a panel of male senators badgering a sexual-assault survivor.
