Atlantic article "I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn't Confirm Him" Benjamin Wittes

[Me.]

1. Really Wittes?

I found this article full of nonsensical notions and found it hard to take a lot of what he wrote seriously. The fact is he wanted his pal to get the nom but even he has to admit he doesn’t have the temperament and thus fell into a great deal of whataboutism to try and soften the blow.

“that there should be norms of civility within a process that showed Kavanaugh none even before the current allegations arose”

“Even assuming that Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations are entirely accurate, rejecting him on the current record could incentivize not merely other sexual-assault victims to come forward—which would be a salutary thing—but also other late-stage allegations of a non-falsifiable nature by people who are not acting in good faith.”

“” After rightly criticizing “the behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at [his] hearing a few weeks ago [as] an embarrassment,”

“Since his confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, he has been a significant voice on a raft of issues I work on. In all of our interactions, he has been a consummate professional”…

To note: Research has shown he judges in favor of corporate interests a great deal more often than he did for citizens.