I'm Elizabeth Slattery and welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This is a special summer session edition of SCOTUS 101, and today I'm joined by the lovely Carrie Severino, who is Chief Counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network.

Carrie, welcome back to SCOTUS 101.

Great to be here.

So some very serious allegations have been made against Judge Kavanaugh.

A woman named Christine Blaise Ford says she was assaulted when she was a teenager in the early 80s, and she says it was Brett Kavanaugh.

Now, I think she should be treated with respect, and she deserves an opportunity to be heard, but I don't think she's entitled to our blind faith that everything

she says is true. And she has, in fact, been offered a chance to share her story. So tell me,

how has Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, how has he handled

things so far? You know, I think he's been doing an amazing job. He has really bent over backwards to try to accommodate Ms. Blasey Ford. And all this

in the context of, I think the behavior that the Democrats have had here in terms of how they

leaked this at the last minute, et cetera, has been really deplorable. But the, but in terms of

Ms. Blasey Ford, he has been trying to give her

every opportunity to have an opportunity to give her allegations, whether that means doing so

publicly or in a closed session, in person, on a phone call. However, she wants to do that, because

she said, you know, yesterday that she wants to

testify and certainly the Democrats have been calling for public hearings and then so,

so Grassley is happy to do that. Now, unfortunately, that he has scheduled a public hearing,

you know, a day later things seem to have changed, and it's not clear yet whether she will

testify. You know, we'll see how that goes, but I have to commend Senator Grassley for

doing everything he can to show her respect, but also to make sure that Judge Kavanaugh is afforded

a fair opportunity to refute those allegations because he has been unequivocal and very clear

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