Rachel Mitchell

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Brett Kavanaugh exemplified entitled white men acting like the new minority, howling about things being taken away, aggrieved at anything that saps their power. Photograph: Win McNamee/Pool/Reuters
Maureen Dowd: Testimonies, FBI and US’s pretend search for truth

I never thought it could be as brutal. The same Republican gargoyles who once tore Anita Hill limb from limb knew they had to tread gingerly, with wo(...)

Demonstrators protest against Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US supreme court due to sexual assault claims. Photograph: Saul Loeb
US sociopolitical divides stripped bare by Kavanaugh hearing

They watched in cafes and bars, in living rooms and kitchens around the country, through  iPhones, live streams and cable TV. On Thursday, millio(...)

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Prof Christine Blasey Ford, testify in Washington. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters
Four key points from the Brett Kavanaugh hearing
  • US
  • September 28, 2018

Two weeks of chaos clouding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation process culminated Thursday in a hearing that was stunning, even in a t(...)

Christine Blasey Ford gave her first public account of what happened at a house party in the early 1980s, when she was 15 and Brett Kavanaugh 17. Photograph: Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images
‘I believed that Brett was going to accidentally kill me’

Washington witnessed one of the most dramatic days of testimony in recent years on Thursday as supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser t(...)

Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building at the Capitol Hill in Washington. Photograph: Win McNamee/Pool via Reuters
Brett Kavanaugh ‘unequivocally and categorically’ denies sexual assault allegations
  • US
  • September 27, 2018

Fighting to salvage his nomination to the US Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh angrily and tearfully denied on Thursday a university professor’s accusati(...)

Julie Swetnick said she observed the future US supreme court nominee at parties where women were verbally abused, inappropriately touched. Photograph: Twitter
Third woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
  • US
  • September 26, 2018, 20:00

Judge Brett Kavanaugh was accused Wednesday by another woman of having engaged in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Pr(...)