What's most disturbing abt the truly startling credibility questions raised by #Kavanaugh 's responses when he was confronted w/some of these documents yesterday, is imagining how attys on the Judiciary Committee & in the bar who support Kavanaugh would view the credibility of 1/
..of an average witness who responded that way in any other hearing or court of law. Every day lawyers impeach the credibility of witnesses. We know what it looks like. We recognize when witnesses are dissembling, obfuscating and outright lying. 2/
But when it comes to confirmation hearings (and lately even to judicial nominee questionnaires which are completed under penalty of perjury) the Senate Judiciary Committee simply will not address credibility and potential untruthfulness. If a nominee says it charmingly enough 3/
...they just won't go there. Among the many ways I have heard naysayers describe the confirmation process as "broken," this reality is never listed among them. 4/
