Blog 4 Table of Contents

Return to Blog: #4 Kavanaugh’s omission of Ford shows consciousness of guilt

• Kavanaugh’s 1982 omission of Ford was a confession to sexually assaulting her and reflected the same strategy as his 2018 confession, 36 years later
  • How did we get to this point?
  • Blog #4 topics
  • Kavanaugh’s calendars were both forward-looking and backward-looking
  • Justice Kavanaugh’s careful process for maintaining his calendars
    • If an event like Dr. Ford described occurred, he would have put it in his calendar
    • Justice Kavanaugh created a presumption that the July 1, 1982 calendar entry was backward-looking
  • Justice Kavanaugh’s calendar strategy in September 2018
    • Kavanaugh and the Republicans adopted a reprehensible strategy – portraying Dr. Ford as delusional
    • You can’t trust a witness not to remember an event they observed without a conspiracy
    • The Republican Senators assisted in portraying Dr. Ford as delusional
    • The detestable Republican strategy was a substantive failure but a pragmatic success
  • Judge Kavanaugh’s 1982 confession and his calendar strategy in July 1982
    • He didn’t just forget and he wasn’t incapacitated
    • Justice Kavanaugh purposefully omitted Dr. Ford to hide the fact she attended the July 1, 1982, house-party
    • His omission of Dr. Ford from his calendar was a contemporaneous admission of guilt
  • His calendar strategies in both 1982 and 2018 evidence the existence of a conspiracy
    • The existence of a conspiracy helps to explain the inexplicable
  • The implications of Justice Kavanaugh’s 1982 and 2018 confessions
    • His testimony about Dr. Ford’s allegation was pervasively false
    • The impacts of his two confessions are cumulative
  • The evidence of Justice Kavanaugh’s guilt is uniquely strong, but there was a Republican coverup
    • The strength of the evidence is comparable to a crime captured on multiple videos
  • Looking forward