[Hot Air] There’s a new book out about the Kavanaugh confirmation called "Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh." The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has seen some excerpts from the book and highlights one of them today. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s attorney, Debra Katz, spoke at a conference and suggested that Ford was motivated to come forward by her desire to put an asterisk next to Kavanaugh’s name should he later dismantle Roe v Wade:In April this year, she spoke at the University of Baltimore’s 11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference titled "Applied Feminism and #MeToo." Lovelace secured a video of her address and provided a clip to Secrets...
Katz said:
"In the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christine’s testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on the court. We were going to have a conservative [justice] ... elections have consequences, but he will always have an asterisk next to his name. When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important; it is important that we know, and that is part of what motivated Christine."
[The book’s author] explained, "Ford’s audience was not the Senate, as Katz had previously suggested, but the American people. If they could be persuaded that Justice Kavanaugh was a predator, then they might not accept a future ruling by the five Republican-appointed justices altering the right to obtain an abortion established by Roe v. Wade. Had the Senate understood Ford’s real motivation, as described by Katz, it might have appreciated more fully the pressure that ’organized forces’ were applying."
Of course, we don’t know exactly what Dr. Ford might have said that led her attorney to believe this was an accurate take on her views. Maybe this is Katz putting her own spin on things, after the fact. Maybe she’s trying to claim a moral victory in the face of an obvious defeat. That’s possible.