Christine Blasey Ford On The Disappointing Reaction To Her Emotional Testimony Against Brett Kavanaugh

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Christine Blasey Ford (Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)

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The strange part, [is that it] felt like I had been believed, but then the response was a proverbial shrug.

— Christine Blasey Ford, writing of the aftermath of her Senate Judiciary Committee testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, where she disclosed that he’d sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, in her new memoir, “One Way Back” (affiliate link). Kavanaugh was later confirmed in a 50-48 vote. Jenna Greene discusses additional details from the book in her Reuters column.

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