In one day, Brett Kavanaugh hired as many black clerks as Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hired in 25 years.

SteveP:

Justice Brett Kavanaugh already made his first comment from the bench. He participated in oral argument Tuesday and asked several questions from the bench.

I don’t think he offended anybody with his words.

I suspect several Supreme Court justices enjoy beer, so I am sure Kavanaugh will be fine. I wouldn’t worry about him.

This ass kissing little authoritarian snot will be a splendid addition to our Supreme Court. There are already several adults on the court, so another partisan choir boy will probably not completely sink the ship of state. Will he take a vow of silence like Clarence did for a couple of decades or so? Can’t wait for Brat’s first comment from the bench. We’ll be all over it, won’t we now! Will he consider his words, and not try to offend women, victims of assault, Democrats, liberals, atheists, scientists, non-whites, ethnic minorities or humanists? Or will he do the Kavanaugh Jesuit Rumba and just say and do whatever he wants to? Can’t wait to find out!

I hope the lack of a happy hour at the Supreme Court hasn’t hit him too hard.

I interpreted it as the older kids were going to go to another party after this get together. I’ve never heard of this multi-party socializing, but maybe that happened at her school.

She doesn’t remember how she got there or how she got home, but why didn’t anyone ask her what her typical routine was? How did she normally get to the country club, or home from these parties? Seems like a useful investigative step.

Forgetting some details, vs changing details when it becomes obvious her story is flawed.

Even if Ford doesn’t really remember who drove her home (which I really have a hard time believing)

Took me a few days, but something in the back of my head kept jumping up and down to get my attention. I have read “cannot remember how I went home” before.
Then I got it. Blog posts by cancer patients, or other people having just learned bad news or experienced trauma.
On one occasion, it was a doctor explaining how he didn’t get how a patient wasn’t correctly informed by its physician on some illness, until he found himself on the receiving end of bad news, and realized he just zoned out during his physician’s explanations on what to do next.
People suffering some trauma tend to universally write something like “everything went fuzzy, and I dimly remember what happened after [triggering event]”.
Heck, it’s so well-know this is a typical reaction to shock, it’s also a cliché in fiction.

But somehow, a woman claiming to have had a fear-inducing event three decade ago should have had a photographic, permanent memory of everything after the event itself.

Also, all this stuff about the fear of plane, doors, and Ford using scientific terms (pushing the scientist forward to hide the victim)? This is the behavior of someone who didn’t want to come forward, in full view.
No wonder she doesn’t want to “pursue it”. What’s the point? It was made clear to her last week this would be an exercice in futility.

None of this prove anything one way or another, I agree.
But forgetting some details after the event or looking for excuses not to come forward are not the slam duck some people believe it is.

“So what’s on the calendar could be the party after what Ford claims she attended.”

I had taken Ford’s comments to mean that the small gathering might have turned into one of the “open” house parties that others have mentioned, where word-of-mouth among the country club kids would result in a large number of party-goers. But it’s hard to say since all of Ford’s comments are murky at best.

In any event it turns out that “Timmy’s” was a townhouse eleven miles away from the country club which doesn’t fit Ford’s description.

The Weekly Standard has been running this down.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/was-blasey-ford-at-a-july-1-1982-party-with-kavanaugh

” Which is an easy claim to make, and one that you cannot verify, and one that you will support with all your heart, and one that is consistent with your tribal belief, a claim that is not backed up by science, and, basically, a claim which you really have no business making. You might claim it as an opinion, but that is all.”

Just like the Ford’s claim and those who believe her.

Haven’t fooled yourself . . . Sorry for the fumble fingers.