He wasn’t legal and he knows it
by digby
He lied a lot. But this one really gets me:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has repeatedly said that he was legally allowed to consume beer as a prep school senior in Maryland. In fact, he was never legal in high school because the state’s drinking age increased to 21 at the end of his junior year, while he was still 17.
Kavanaugh’s drinking has come under intense scrutiny after California professor Christine Blasey Ford alleged that a heavily intoxicated Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both teenagers at a Maryland house party during the summer of 1982.
The legal age in that state was raised to 21 on July 1, 1982; Kavanaugh did not turn 18 until Feb. 12, 1983.
In a Fox News interview on Monday, Kavanaugh said, “Yes, there were parties. And the drinking age was 18. And yes, the seniors were legal.”
In testimony Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he said all of his comments during the Fox interview were accurate and could be made part of the record.
Pressed at the hearing about his drinking habits in high school, he again claimed he had not broken the law.
“Yes we drank beer, my friends and I, boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. I still like beer,” he said. “The drinking age as I noted was 18, so the seniors were legal. Senior year in high school, people were legal to drink.”
There is just no way he wouldn’t have known he was drinking illegally in high school. Somebody had to have had a fake ID and he probably had one too. It’s just not something anyone would be unaware of.
I understand why a federal appeals court judge trying to be confirmed for a Supreme Court seat wouldn’t want to admit that he’d ever broken any laws. For all we know, he’s lied about this in all of his FBI background checks in the past and would, therefore, have also committed perjury. Not a good look to be sure.
But it’s simply not believable in any way that he didn’t know he was drinking illegally during High School. I’d guess the majority of people in this country broke tht law. But we don’t lie about it 35 years later. That’s weird. Especially for a man who claims to have been a choir boy.
There are many reasons why this man is as unfit for the Supreme Curt as Donald Trump is unfit for the White House, not the least of which is the fact that he’s credibly accused of sexual assault. He’s a partisan political operative who pretty much admitted it in the hearing on Thursday and made it clear that he planned to wreak revenge on the Democrats with his “reap the whirlwind” threat if he gets on the court.
But like Donald Trump he seems to be the kind of congenital liar who does it even in situations where it’s easily disproved, basically falling back on the “you can believe me or you can believe your eyes” challenge.
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