How many of you remember the explosive sexual assault allegations levelled against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, allegations he in turn vehemently denied? At the time America was gripped — as were we. It was 2018, MeToo was raging and Kavanaugh was Donald Trump’s ultra-conservative choice to join the Supreme Court. Trump had repeatedly made clear he wanted to roll back abortion rights and turning the court in his favour was key.
Dr Ford, below, had reluctantly emerged during Kavanaugh’s highly controversial nomination to accuse him of sexually assaulting her at university. “Seared into my hippocampus”, she recalled at the Senate judiciary hearing, was the “uproarious laughter” of Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, who also denied the claims, as they allegedly trapped her in a bedroom at a party in the Eighties. She claimed Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed as he tried to remove her clothes: “They were having fun at my expense. I was underneath one of them while the two laughed.” Trump took to mocking Dr Ford on Twitter.
