This is the thing about the intersection of alcohol and drugs and sexual assault.

The whole thing is rigged to prevent women from coming forward.

Everything relies on the Supreme Court, which makes it entirely rational to say

I would rather have an axe-merger who's going to vote my way than have a boy scout

who's going to vote against me.

Welcome to Deconstructed.

I'm Mehdi Hassan and those were the voices of my intercept colleagues Ryan Grimm and Naomi Klein.

They are my guests today as we discuss what's become the biggest story in the United States right now.

The Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Republican Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the growing number of sexual assault allegations against him.

It's a story with a new twist and turn almost every day.

Just hours before we came into this recording studio, we learned of a third woman, Julie Sweatnik,

who assigned a sworn affidavit, accusing Kavanaugh of sexually aggressive behavior at alcohol-fuel parties when he was in high school

and who basically has just stopped short of calling him a rapist.

Sweatnik alleges, I also witnessed efforts by Mark Judge Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented

so they could be gang-raped in a side room or a bedroom by trains of numerous boys.

Before I get into all that, I do want to say something about the Supreme Court as a whole, as someone who hasn't lived here all my life.

I'm an immigrant to your great country, but I'll tell you what, there are a lot of weird things about living in the US.

A lot of things I find very weird about living and working here.

Turning right at a red light, I find that very odd. It's been hard to get used to that. We don't do that in the UK.

The sheer number of breakfast cereals are on offer in the grocery store, it's something that still kind of befuddles me.

And then of course, there's your gun culture, really, really weird, open carry laws in Virginia where I live, haven't been able to get past that.

But one of the really weird institutions in this country is the United States Supreme Court, which is so odd and such an aberration when it comes to Supreme Court around the world.

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