11. CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics), “CNN’s Jake Tapper: ‘Doesn’t Kavanaugh have the same presumption of innocence as anyone else in America?’ Sen. Mazie Hirono: ‘I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases’ #CNNSOTU,” Twitter, September 23, 2018, 6:40 a.m., https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1043857714860834821.
12. David Rutz, “Coons: Kavanaugh ‘Bears the Burden of Disproving These Allegations,” Free Beacon, September 24, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/coons-kavanaugh-bears-the-burden-of-disproving-these-allegations/.
13. Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson), “Chuck Schumer, in his own words, Brett Kavanaugh has ‘No presumption of innocence.’ This explains much of the Democrats approach to these accusations,” Twitter, September 25, 2018, 1:19 p.m., https://twitter.com/bennyjohnsozn/status/1044682895682662400.
14. U.S. Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 102nd Cong., Pt.4, (Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1993), 268, https://www.congress.gov/supreme-court/GPO-CHRG-THOMAS-4.pdf.
15. Philip Rucker, “Joe Biden: When a woman alleges sexual assault, presume she is telling the truth,” Washington Post, September 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-when-a-woman-alleges-sexual-assault-presume-she-is-telling-the-truth/2018/09/17/7718c532-badd-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html; Remarks of Mitch McConnell, September 26, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
16. Matt Naham, “Faculty at Brett Kavanaugh’s Alma Mater Are Demanding Screeching Halt to His Confirmation,” Law & Crime website, September 21, 2018, https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/faculty-at-brett-kavanaughs-alma-mater-are-demanding-screeching-halt-to-his-confirmation/.
17. Matt Naham, “Yale Law Students Refuse to Go to Class, Stage ‘Sit-in’ Over Brett Kavanaugh Assault Claims,” Law & Crime website, September 24, 2018, https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yale-law-students-refuse-to-go-to-class-stage-sit-in-over-brett-kavanaugh-assault-claims/.
18. Diane Herbst, “Over 1000 Female Yale Grads Sign Letter Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Accusers: ‘We Have Their Backs,’ ” People, September 24, 2018, https://people.com/politics/female-yale-grads-letter-support-brett-kavanaugh-accusers/.
19. Charles C. W. Cooke, “On The New Yorker’s Grossly Irresponsible Story,” National Review, September 24, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/on-the-new-yorkers-grossly-irresponsible-story/.
20. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos, “Christine Blasey Ford Reaches Deal to Testify at Kavanaugh Hearing,” New York Times, September 23, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html.
21. New Day (@NewDay), “This is a fairly high level of evidence for this kind of a case . . . This exceeds the evidentiary basis we’ve used in the past in several cases that were found to be very credible,” says @RonanFarrow of his reporting on the new allegations against Brett Kavanaugh,” Twitter, September 24, 2018, 4:39 a.m., https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1044189464602370048.
22. David Marcus, “Ronan Farrow Hurts The Me Too Movement With His Anti-Kavanaugh Hatchet Job,” The Federalist, September 24, 2018, http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/24/ronan-farrow-hurts-me-too-movement-with-his-anti-kavanaugh-smear/.
23. “Ronan Misfires?” Drudge Report Archives: 19:30:07, September 24, 2018, 7:30 p.m., https://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2018/09/25/20180925_004008.htm.
24. Elizabeth Dias, “A Mormon Women’s Group Seeks a Break in the Process,” New York Times, September 27, 2018, A20.
25. Jessica Contrera, Ian Shapira, Emma Brown, and Steve Hendrix, “Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life. It wasn’t far enough,” Washington Post, September 27, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html.
26. Aaron Blake, “Mark Judge’s conspicuous absence from Thursday’s hearing,” Washington Post, September 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/25/how-world-is-mark-judge-not-testifying/.
27. Elizabeth Bruenig, “What Do We Owe Her Now?” Washington Post, September 23, 2018, AA04.
28. Senate Judiciary Committee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas, 252.
29. John Anthony Maltese, The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 97.
30. Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview), “Female interviewer, check. Fox News, check. Bill Shine approved, check. When an “exclusive interview” promises to be a challenge-free infomercial,” Twitter, September 24, 2018, 12:50 p.m., https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1044313198399238146.
31. Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview), “Wife at your side, check,” Twitter, September 24, 2018, 12:53 p.m., https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1044313932419268608.
32. Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview), “Unquestioning adoration would probably be the right look,” Twitter, September 24, 2018, 12:57 p.m. https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1044314975152549889.
33. Brett Kavanaugh interviewed by Martha MacCullum, “Brett Kavanaugh: Full transcript of Fox Interview,” USA Today, September 24, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaugh-transcript-interview-fox-news-martha-maccullum/1415548002/.