The US Supreme Court and Gender Politics
To the Point
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4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Judge Brett Kavanaugh did what no Supreme Court nominee had ever done before. He defended his reputation in public--on Fox News. Meantime, male Republican Senators said they’d hired a “female assistant.” She’ll question the woman accusing the judge of sexual assault while he was in prep school. What’s in store for Kavanaugh’s confirmation-- and the prestige of the highest court in the land?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, I'm Warren Alney. |
| 0:06.0 | Bill Cosby's attorney, Andrew Wyatt, says his client and Judge Brett Kavanaugh are both |
| 0:11.8 | victims of what Wyatt called a sex war that is going on in Washington today. |
| 0:17.7 | Cosby was sentenced to prison this week as a violent sexual predator. |
| 0:21.8 | Kavanaugh, a Supreme Court nominee, is categorically denying claims of attempted rape |
| 0:27.3 | and other charges while he was in prep school and college decades ago. |
| 0:32.0 | The incident is unique in Supreme Court history, and Kavanaugh has broken the traditional |
| 0:37.2 | silence of potential court |
| 0:38.9 | members on Fox TV seated next to his wife. He said this about his behavior at Georgetown prep school. |
| 0:46.4 | Yes, there were parties, and the drinking age was 18, and yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there. |
| 0:52.9 | And yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion. |
| 0:56.0 | And people generally in high school, I think all of us have probably done things we look back on in high school |
| 1:02.0 | and regret or cringe a bit. |
| 1:04.0 | But that's not what we're talking about. |
| 1:06.0 | We're talking about an allegation of sexual assault. |
| 1:08.0 | I've never sexually assaulted anyone. |
| 1:10.0 | I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years |
| 1:16.9 | thereafter. Now, he will be appearing before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate |
| 1:22.2 | and all the Republican members of that committee are men. So, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, |
| 1:26.9 | has hired Rachel Mitchell, |
| 1:28.3 | a prosecutor from Arizona, to question both Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey |
| 1:34.5 | Ford. I don't think because you happen to be a male, you're disqualified, from listening to the |
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