>>103431456supreme court have the highest level of authority in the american justice system
a judge on it retired, so trump nominated brett kavanaugh to replace him
he's basically a textbook conservative, nothing extreme but enough to offend people who are hard left
a woman accused him of sexual assault 35 years ago when they were in high school. Nobody who was there at the time remembers it, but her claims were made a huge deal of because #believewomen and it was basically the democrats' only chance of him not getting put on the court
It climaxed with a hearing where they both gave their accounts of the alleged events. She has no proof of her claims, but didn't appear to be lying.
Kavanaugh was angry about his reputation getting ruined over unproven allegations and was actively hostile towards democrats questioning him, and avoided answering questions about how much he drank in college (since that could then be used to suggest he did it while drunk and didn't remember)
The FBI investigated it and turned up no new evidence, which made enough people confident enough to vote him in. He was sworn into the supreme court a day or two ago and democrats will be pissed about it for a long time.
My personal opinion is that she did get assaulted, but it was someone other than kavanaugh. It was so long ago and the first time she recalled it as being him was 2012, which is more than enough time for the memory to get distorted. She even had a boyfriend at the time who was a kavanaugh lookalike and she explicitly said she would not answer questions about him at the hearing. The accusations are so old there's no way for them to be proven, so people just defaulted to believing they person they want to.
In the preview clip they seem to be making fun of kavanaugh's explanations of terms in his year book - eg "devil's triangle" is something people assumed to be a sex act, but he explained it was a drinking game. Not everyone believes him, apparently including M+T
