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Brett Kavanaugh Is Cursed Either Way
If he makes it to the Supreme Court without being cleared, his ordeal won't be over.
No, he’s not Clarence Thomas.
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One way or another, Brett Kavanaugh will have to pay.
He will not necessarily pay explicitly for whatever it was he did or didn’t do on that contested night long ago. Although if Christine Blasey Ford appears to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and if she acquits herself credibly, then Kavanaugh is unlikely ever to sit on the Supreme Court – no matter what Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says.