I am beginning to think that the “investigation” of Brett Kavanaugh was a sham

Republican elites have convinced themselves that it has been proven to an absolute certainty that Brett Kavanaugh was railroaded by a vast liberal conspiracy. And who can blame them, given how compelling the evidence they uncovered was:

A 2018 Senate investigation that found there was “no evidence” to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault against the US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh contained serious omissions, according to new information obtained by the Guardian.

The 28-page report was released by the Republican senator Chuck Grassley, the then chairman of the Senate judiciary committee. It prominently included an unfounded and unverified claim that one of Kavanaugh’s accusers – a fellow Yale graduate named Deborah Ramirez – was “likely” mistaken when she alleged that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dormitory party because another Yale student was allegedly known for such acts.

The suggestion that Kavanaugh was the victim of mistaken identity was sent to the judiciary committee by a Colorado-based attorney named Joseph C Smith Jr, according to a non-redacted copy of a 2018 email obtained by the Guardian. Smith was a friend and former colleague of the judiciary committee’s then lead counsel, Mike Davis.

Smith was also a member of the Federalist Society, which strongly supported Kavanaugh’s supreme court nomination, and appears to have a professional relationship with the Federalist Society’s co-founder, Leonard Leo, whom he thanked in the acknowledgments of his book Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State.

Smith wrote to Davis in the 29 September 2018 email that he was in a class behind Kavanaugh and Ramirez (who graduated in the class of 1987) and believed Ramirez was likely mistaken in identifying Kavanaugh.

Instead, Smith said it was a fellow classmate named Jack Maxey, who was a member of Kavanaugh’s fraternity, who allegedly had a “reputation” for exposing himself, and had once done so at a party. To back his claim, Smith also attached a photograph of Maxey exposing himself in his fraternity’s 1988 yearbook picture.

The allegation that Ramirez was likely mistaken was included in the Senate committee’s final report even though Maxey – who was described but not named – was not attending Yale at the time of the alleged incident.

In an interview with the Guardian, Maxey confirmed that he was still a senior in high school at the time of the alleged incident, and said he had never been contacted by any of the Republican staffers who were conducting the investigation.

“I was not at Yale,” he said. “I was a senior in high school at the time. I was not in New Haven.” He added: “These people can say what they want, and there are no consequences, ever.”

“Brett Kavanaugh must be innocent because it is logically impossible for more than one frat boy on a given campus to expose themselves” would be as convincing as Ed Whelan’s Zillow investigations even if Maxey was attending Yale at the time. (The intern responsible for this particular checkmating of the libs is now running ESPN’s draft “analytics” department.)

My other “favorite” argument allegedly demonstrating Kavanaugh’s innocence is that Democrats simply charge every Republican Supreme Court nominee with sexual assault so you know it they must be crying wolf. I mean it happened with John Roberts, Harriet Miers, Sam Alito, Neil Groscuh, Amy Coney…hold on, I’ll come in again. Anyway, there remains absolutely no reason to think that Christine Blasey Ford isn’t a credible witness.