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-11 posts tagged "Brett Kavanaugh"
Liam Price | Sunday, January 29, 2023
Last Monday in the McCartan Courtroom, dean of Notre Dame Law School Marcus Cole spoke with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who responded to questions from students and faculty members in the audience. In the Q&A, Kavanaugh discussed his relationship with his colleagues, how he personally developed his specific philosophy of law, including from both
Vince Mallett | Monday, September 16, 2019
Fourteen months ago, President Donald Trump nominated then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, pending Senate confirmation. One year ago today, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward with sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. Those accusations sparked an intense national debate surrounding a nomination already widely expected to change the trajectory of the federal judiciary. Around
Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Explain to me how men are the victims of their own misconduct. Donald Trump is more concerned for his sons than his daughters. “I say that it’s a very scary time for young men in America, when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of.” In a desperate effort to
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
On Oct. 5, the Saint Mary’s community participated in Believe Survivors—Rally of Support, an event held to show support for survivors of sexual assault and harassment in the wake of the Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. The event concluded a week of events that included a screening of the movie “Anita” and an
Mia Berry | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, the most pronounced form of government hypocrisy has involved the way we treat women as a whole and those who have been sexually assaulted. I get it, almost every industry has shown some hypocritical actions in how it treats women, but the governmental sector seems to be the only
Andrew Rebholz | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
In light of the growing Kavanaugh controversy, Observer columnist Andrew Rebholz published a column last week attempting to reconcile disparate political parties, sympathizing with Prof. Ford and other assault victims in our country, while at the same time understanding that nobody ought to be villainized until a certain burden of proof has been met. In
Serena Zacharias | Monday, October 8, 2018
Before the United States Senate voted Saturday to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, student activists gathered at Geddes Hall on Friday to call swing-state senators and convince them to vote “no” to Kavanaugh’s nomination. Junior Emilia McManus said the #cancelKavanaugh event was initiated by a group of students with no formal affiliations
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, October 5, 2018
Following Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s testimonies Thursday, Sept. 27, the nation has been captured by a conversation about sexual assault. Ford brought forward allegations in a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein detailing an experience in high school, where she recalls that at the age of 15, Kavanaugh and his friend Mark
Patrick McKelvey | Tuesday, October 2, 2018
On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. During the hearing, both Ford and Kavanaugh provided testimony surrounding the incident, and both were questioned by senators on the committee. At one point, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham became irate. “I cannot imagine
Gary Caruso | Friday, September 28, 2018
During the Trump era, the President’s early morning tweets routinely sculpt a fast-paced, short-term and tension-filled political terrain each week. This week seems to have topped them all since the inauguration. It began with Trump’s rebuttal of why world leaders laughed at him at the United Nations. The week sped along with the President’s phone