Brett Kavanaugh Gave a Speech About Binge Drinking in Law School

[Gothmog]

This speech will come up on Monday https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-gave-a-speech-about-binge-drinking-in-law-school/

Here is an excerpt of that speech:

I am approaching my eighth anniversary on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my graduation from this school. That means I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my organizing 30 classmates in a bus to go to Boston for a Red Sox game and a night of Boston bar-hopping, only for us to return falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m. One friend of mine, Steve Hartmann, actually had a Labor Law final the next morning. (I checked with him just yesterday to confirm that it was Labor Law.) True story.

On the bus, he actually had his book out and was reading his notes while people were doing group chugs from a keg. He got a P. I think the people doing the group chugs got H’s. Fortunately for all of us, we had a motto, what happens on the bus stays on the bus. Tonight, you can modify that to what happens at the Fed Soc after-party stays at the Fed Soc afterparty.

We had a good run my third year. We got our work done, but we had our share of fun. During our third year class party, it was a beautiful night then as it is tonight. We were at the Lawn Club. No one had done their SAWs. Most people didn’t even have their topics yet. But we didn’t care that night. We had a memorable evening. It is fair to say that we had a few drinks. Indeed, as a classmate of mine and I were reminiscing and piecing things together the other day, we think we had more than a few beers before the banquet. Might have been at Toads. Not a good idea.

Anyway, toward the end of the evening a friend of mine who shall remain nameless—and this is a story that is really about a friend of mine, not about me where I am disguising myself as a friend of mine—my friend broke a table in the Lawn Club reception area. Smashed it into multiple pieces. I actually still possess a photo of him sprawled on the floor on top of the table. How’d did he break it, you might ask? The old-fashioned way. He lost his balance and fell into the table, drink in hand, and the table collapsed. My friend was a big guy.

Now, you might think that we would have quickly left the Lawn Club after that, with some sense of shame. But you’d be wrong. My friend actually tried to get another drink at the bar. Proving something I have always known—that bartenders have a lot more common sense than many law school students—the bartender refused to serve my friend.

[matt819]

1. Sounds like he's an alcoholic

How is he dealing with this.

[klook]

2. Just a regular carpool dad

You know, the kind of guy you'd want coaching your daughter's basketball team.


Kavanaugh needs to explain how he transitioned from a young adulthood of debauchery to become a responsible, sober citizen -- assuming he has.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. annoying

Not judge material, not advocate material, definitely not an orator.

That thing was annoying to read; I'd hate to have to listen to it.
KavaNO!

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Does it discuss him pouring beer and alcohol in his ass too, as mentioned in his yearbook?

[MaryMagdaline]

5. A Grown man who Still thinks it's funny that his drunken buddy fell and broke a table

And one of the law professors scored more drinks for the guy after the bartender cut him off.

This stuff is funny when you’re ten and you’re watching an old western saloon scene.

It’s not funny when you have 2 brothers in AA and a cousin who fell and hit his head while too drunk to walk. (Nice kid whose father died of alcoholism so that 2 generations grew up without fathers). Not funny when one of your closest friends is on her 10th rehab and her uncle drank himself to death. This to me is like listening to a methhead talk about good times being high. Just painful.

Arrested development. Too immature and reckless to be on the Supreme Court.

Boys will be boys. Men better be men.

[unitedwethrive]

6. MAYBE I could see college freshmen in this scenario...but graduate students?

By the time I was in med school, drinking to get drunk was well behind me and the vast majority of my classmates.

He has a problem.

[Gothmog]

7. If you were a binge drinker in High school, then you continued this is law school