The 2018 report put together by Senate Republicans advocating for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court omitted key facts about the nominee that appears to be an attempt to cover up questionable behavior, according to the Guardian.
Among the details: in an infamous episode where Kavanaugh reportedly exposed his genitals to a woman while he was a college student at Yale, the Senate Republicans led by Chuck Grassley stated in the report that the woman who made the accusation likely mistook Kavanaugh for another Yale student, Jack Maxey. The woman, Deborah Ramirez, denies she misidentified the individual who pulled his penis from his pants and put it in Ramirez’s face.
Maxey was put forth as a potential alternative, with Kavanaugh advocates pointing to a yearbook photo of the fraternity where Maxey reportedly “mooned” a cameraman as proof of his antics. However, the person who proposed Maxey, Colorado-based attorney named Joseph C Smith Jr., was a friend of the Republican Judiciary Committee caucus lawyer, Mike Davis. And there’s also the little fact that Maxey wasn’t even at Yale when the incident occurred; he was still in high school–details that the committee were reportedly told by Maxey and others but ignored.