By ANONYMOUS

On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the high court justice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Kavanaugh has sat on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit since 2006 and graduated from Yale Law School. He was expected to be more conservative with his opinions, which would shift the Supreme Court with having five conservative judges. It seemed like everything was relatively smooth waters until Dr. Christine Ford accused him of committing sexual and physical assault three decades ago.

There were rumors surrounding the assault around a week before Ford came out publicly with the information on September 16 in a Washington Post story. In her accusation, she claimed that while her and Kavanaugh were at a party in high school, he and his friend trapped her in a room and proceeded to sexually assault her. She managed to get away from the two, but this event caused her years of anxiety. Kavanaugh denied the accusation, stating that he “…did not do this back in high school or at any time.”

On September 18, Ford’s lawyers called for the FBI to investigate the situation since she said that she’d be willing to publicly testify. Trump did not believe that the FBI would find anything regarding the case. He also expressed his sympathies for Kavanaugh as he believes that he “has been treated very, very tough.”

Less than a week later, a woman who went to Yale with Kavanaugh, Deborah Ramirez, claimed that he exposed himself to her while at a college party. After that, a third woman came forward by the name of Julie Swetnick who claimed to be at a party when she was drugged and gang raped.

Ford and Kavanaugh both stood in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27 where Ford said that she was 100% certain that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Kavanaugh responds by calling the accusation a “calculated and orchestrated political hit.”

After the hearing, Trump openly mocked Ford’s testimony during a campaign rally in Mississippi. Many criticized Trump’s comments calling him insensitive and inappropriate.

On October 5, the Senate voted 51-49 to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination and was confirmed to the US Supreme Court on a 50-48 vote on October 6.