We Were Brett Kavanaugh's Drinking Buddies. We Don't Think He Should Be
Confirmed.
By Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher, The Washington
Post
05 October 18
We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee
Brett M. Kavanaugh. In the past week, all three of us decided separately to
respond to questions from the media regarding Brett's honesty, or lack
thereof. In each of our cases, it was his public statements during a Fox
News TV interview and his sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Committee that prompted us to speak out.
We each asserted that Brett lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that
he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. We said,
unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett
stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state
with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when
drunk.
Since coming forward, we each have received numerous angry messages accusing
us of attempting to ruin a man's life because of his drunken antics as a
college student. In fact, none of us condemned Brett for his frequent
drunkenness. We drank too much in college as well. It is true that Brett
acknowledged he sometimes drank "too many beers." But he also stated that he
never drank to the point of blacking out.
By coming forward, each of us has disrupted our own lives and those of our
families. As well as navigating the intense media interest, including having
news vans and reporters set up in front of the home of one of us, we have
received large amounts of hate mail, including threats of violence. We have
lost friendships. The work servers of one of us were hacked.
None of this is what we wanted, but we felt it our civic duty to speak the
truth and say that Brett lied under oath while seeking to become a Supreme
Court justice. That is our one and only message, but it is a significant
one. For we each believe that telling the truth, no matter how difficult, is
a moral obligation for our nation's leaders. No one should be able to lie
their way onto the Supreme Court. Honesty is the glue that holds together a
society of laws. Lies are the solvent that dissolves those bonds.
All of us went to Yale, whose motto is "Lux et Veritas" (Light and Truth).
Brett also belonged to a Yale senior secret society called Truth and
Courage. We believe that Brett neither tells the former nor embodies the
latter. For this reason, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on
the nation's highest court.
Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher attended Yale
University from 1983 to 1987 with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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