Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. February 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/Pool through Reuters)
The New York Times on Sunday was compelled to stroll again a brand new sexual misconduct allegation towards Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, updating a bombshell article to make clear that the alleged sufferer has no reminiscence of the incident.
The opinion essay by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and particulars their upcoming guide “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation” and describes a number of sexual assault allegations towards Kavanaugh, together with a beforehand unreported declare that the FBI didn’t examine through the choose’s contentious affirmation course of.
Kavanaugh’s highschool classmate, Christine Blasey Ford, testified to Congress throughout his affirmation hearings that Kavanaugh pinned her to a mattress and coated her mouth at a drunken home get together once they had been youngsters. Several different accusations surfaced towards him throughout these weeks, together with from a Yale classmate, Deborah Ramirez, who claimed that Kavanaugh had thrust his penis in her face at a drunken dormitory get together, inflicting her to push it away and by chance contact it.
The Times reporters detailed a beforehand unreported alleged incident just like the Ramirez one. Another Yale classmate, Max Stier, who now heads a Washington nonprofit, instructed Congress and the FBI that he had witnessed Kavanaugh “with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.” The FBI didn’t examine that allegation.
However, the paper up to date the story later to say that the guide “did not include one element of the book’s account” of the brand new incident.
“The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident,” the Times’ correction reads.
The New York Times Opinion Twitter account additionally deleted and apologized for an “offensive” tweet on the Kavanaugh opinion essay.
