U.S Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii reacted with outrage after reading
The New York Times's recent article about allegations made in a newly published book about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The
Times piece, which was written by the book's authors, notes that the book – titled The Education of Brett Kavanaugh – discusses allegations in which a woman named Deborah Ramirez, who was a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh more than 30 years ago, now claims that a drunken Kavanaugh once exposed his penis to her during a campus party. The article further reports that another “former classmate,” Max Stier, claims to have personally seen the incident in question. But the article never mentions Stier's deep ties to the Democratic Party – most notably, he worked for President Bill Clinton in the 1990s while Kavanaugh was a member of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigative team which looked into Clinton's misconduct in office. Nor does the article mention that Ramirez has refused to be interviewed about the alleged incident; that all three of the friends whom she has identified as witnesses steadfastly maintain that it never occurred; and that all three friends have stated that not even Ramirez herself can recall the incident.
Despite the paucity of evidence against Kavanaugh, Hirono said Monday in a statement: “Brett Kavanaugh should never have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. It was plain to me and many others at the time that the FBI ‘investigation’ into the serious, corroborated allegations of sexual assault by Justice Kavanaugh was a sham. New reporting from the
New York Times further proves it.... The House Judiciary Committee should immediately begin an impeachment inquiry to determine whether Justice Kavanaugh lied to Congress and why the FBI wasn’t permitted to investigate all credible allegations against him.”
Hirono's outrage regarding the allegations against Kavanaugh is emblematic of the manner in which she has conducted herself throughout her entire political career: as a raging, vengeful individual motivated chiefly by her own personal hatreds and grievances. Indeed, she received a strong grounding in the politics of grievance during her college years, when she determined that Betty Friedan's
The Feminine Mystique, which depicted mothers and housewives as miserable victims of patriarchal oppression, was “the most influential” book to which she had ever been exposed.
