She Said He Said

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is in a bind. A woman has come forward who claims in high school he had tried to rape her but was too drunk to do it. Kavanaugh has unequivocally denied that it happened and another man who was supposed to be with him has also said it isn’t true. Who to believe? It is a classic case of she said he said. In the #metoo environment, the woman is being given more credence than the man, and one prominent figure after another has disappeared from public life. Kavanaugh might be next. If so, it will be a blow to the Trump administration and perhaps, to the Court. Kavanaugh is widely recognized as an able scholar of the law, a gentleman with the numerous female clerks he has engaged and an all-around good person. If he did attempt to rape a woman while in high school, that should exclude him from the Supreme Court, but who is to say? It is two against one now — two men against one woman. How do you prove what happened?