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Kavanaugh Responds to Allegations in Opening Statement
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump'due south Supreme Courtroom nominee, testified before the Senate Judiciary Commission and vehemently denied the sexual assault allegation made by Christine Blasey Ford.
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This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fearfulness that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons, and millions of dollars in money from outside, left-wing opposition groups. This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with united states of america for decades. This grotesque and coordinated graphic symbol bump-off will dissuade confident and adept people of all political persuasions from serving our country. And as we all know, in the United States political organization of the early 2000s, what goes effectually comes around. I am an optimistic guy. I always attempt to exist on the sunrise side of the mount, to exist optimistic about the day that is coming. Only today I have to say that I fear for the future. Last fourth dimension I was here, I told this committee that a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political force per unit area. I said I was such a judge. And I am. I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. You've tried difficult. Yous've given it your all. No one tin question your endeavour. But your coordinated and well-funded endeavour to destroy my good proper name and destroy my family will not drive me out. The vile threats of violence confronting my family unit will not drive me out. You may defeat me in the final vote, simply you'll never become me to quit. Never. I'one thousand here today to tell the truth. I've never sexually assaulted anyone, non in high schoolhouse, not in college, not ever. Sexual assault is horrific. One of my closest friends to this solar day is a woman who was sexually abused and who in the 1990s, when we were in our 30s, confided in me about the abuse and sought my communication. I was one of the just people she consulted. Allegations of sexual assault must always be taken seriously — e'er. Those who brand allegations always deserve to exist heard. At the same time, the person who is the subject of the allegations too deserves to be heard. Due procedure is a foundation of the American rule of law. Due procedure means listening to both sides. I'chiliad not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some fourth dimension. Only I have never done this — to her or to anyone. That'south not who I am. It is not who I was. I am innocent of this accuse. I intend no ill volition to Dr. Ford and her family. The other dark Ashley and my daughter Liza said their prayers and lilliputian Liza, all of 10 years old, said to Ashley, "We should pray for the woman." It's a lot of wisdom from a 10-yr-old. Nosotros mean — we mean no ill volition.
Updated Sept. 27, 2018
Judge Brett K. Kavanaugh testified Thursday in front end of the Senate Judiciary Committee about accusations of sexual assault leveled confronting him by Christine Blasey Ford.
The following is the transcript of Judge Kavanaugh'southward opening statement, every bit prepared past The New York Times.
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JUDGE BRETT M. KAVANAUGH: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Feinstein, members of the committee, thank you for assuasive me to make my argument. I wrote information technology myself yesterday afternoon and evening. No ane has seen a draft of it except for one of my former constabulary clerks. This is my statement.
Less than 2 weeks agone, Dr. Ford publicly accused me of committing wrongdoing at an event more than 36 years ago when we were both in loftier school. I denied the accusation immediately, categorically and unequivocally. All 4 people allegedly at the event, including Dr. Ford'due south longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, accept said they call up no such event. Her longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, said nether punishment of felony that she does non know me and does not believe she ever saw me at a political party ever. Hither's the quote from Ms. Keyser's attorney'due south letter. "But put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a political party or gathering where he was present with or without Dr. Ford." Think about that fact.
The solar day after the allegation appeared, I told this commission that I wanted a hearing as soon as possible to clear my proper noun. I demanded a hearing for the very next twenty-four hour period. Unfortunately, information technology took the commission 10 days to become to this hearing. In those ten long days, as was predictable and equally I predicted, my family and my proper name have been totally and permanently destroyed by brutal and false additional accusations. The 10-24-hour interval delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the Supreme Courtroom and to the land. When this allegation commencement arose, I welcomed any kind of investigation. Senate, F.B.I. or otherwise. The committee now has conducted a thorough investigation, and I've cooperated fully.
I know that any kind of investigation, Senate, F.B.I., Montgomery County law, any will clear me. Heed to the people I know. Listen to the people that have known me my whole life. Listen to the people that I've grown up with and worked with and played with and coached with and dated and taught and gone to games with and had beers with. And listen to the witnesses who allegedly were at this event 36 years ago. Listen to Ms. Keyser. She does not know me. I was not at the party described past Dr. Ford. This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process. But you accept replaced "advice and consent" with "search and destroy."
Since my nomination in July, there's been a frenzy on the left to come upwards with something, anything to block my confirmation. Before long after I was nominated, the Democratic Senate leader said he would "oppose me with everything he's got." A Democratic senator on this commission publicly referred to me as evil. Evil. Recollect about that word. And said that those that supported me were "complicit and evil." Another Democratic senator on this committee said, "Judge Kavanaugh is your worst nightmare." A sometime head of the Democratic National Committee said, "Judge Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come."
I sympathize the passions of the moment. Just I would say to those senators: Your words have meaning. Millions of Americans listened advisedly to you. Given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to practise anything to make whatsoever physical threat against my family unit? To ship any violent e-mail to my married woman, to make whatever kind of allegation confronting me, and confronting my friends, to blow me up and have me downwardly.
You sowed the air current for decades to come. I fear that the whole land will reap the whirlwinds. The behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a few weeks agone was an embarrassment. Just at least it was merely a good old-fashioned attempt at Borking. Those efforts didn't work.
When I did at least O.K. enough at the hearings that information technology looks like I might actually become confirmed, a new tactic was needed. Some of you lot were lying in wait and had it ready. This first accusation was held in secret for weeks by a Democratic fellow member of this committee and by staff. It would exist needed but if y'all couldn't take me out on the merits. When it was needed, this accusation was unleashed and publicly deployed over Dr. Ford's wishes.
And then, and so, as no doubt was expected, if not planned, came a long series of false last-infinitesimal smears designed to scare me and drive me out of the process before any hearing occurred. Crazy stuff. Gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island. All nonsense. Reported breathlessly and frequently uncritically by the media. This has destroyed my family and my good name. A good proper name congenital upward through decades of very difficult work and public service at the highest levels of the American government.
This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with credible pent-upwards acrimony virtually President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial tape, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in coin from outside left-fly opposition groups.
This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades. This grotesque and coordinated graphic symbol assassination will dissuade confident and skilful people of all political persuasions from serving our state. And as nosotros all know in the United States political system of the early on 2000s, what goes around comes around.
I am an optimistic guy. I e'er attempt to be on the sunrise side of the mountain, to be optimistic nearly the day that is coming, but today, I have to say that I fear for the future. Last time I was here, I told this committee that a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political force per unit area. I said I was such a judge. And I am.
I volition not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. You have tried hard. You lot've given it your all. No i tin can question your efforts. Your coordinated and well-funded efforts to destroy my proficient name and destroy my family unit will not drag me out. The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. Yous may defeat me in the final vote, merely you'll never get me to quit. Never.
I'grand hither today to tell the truth. I've never sexually assaulted anyone. Not in high school, not in college, not ever. Sexual assault is horrific. One of my closest friends to this day is a woman who was sexually abused, and who in the 1990s when we were in our 30s, confided in me about the abuse. Sought my advice. I was i of the only people she consulted. Allegations of sexual set on must e'er be taken seriously, always. Those that brand allegations always deserve to be heard.
At the same fourth dimension, the person who is the subject of the allegations also deserves to exist heard. Due process is the foundation of the American rule of police force. Due process means listening to both sides.
As I told yous in my hearing iii weeks ago, I'one thousand the simply child of Martha and Ed Kavanaugh. They're hither today. When I was ten, my mom went to law school. And as a lawyer, she worked hard and overcame barriers including the workplace sexual harassment that so many women faced at the time and nonetheless face today. She became a trail blazer, one of Maryland'due south primeval women prosecutors and trial judges. She and my dad taught me the importance of a quality and respect for all people and she inspired me to be a lawyer and a approximate.
Last fourth dimension I was here, I told you that when my mom was a prosecutor and I was in high school, she used to practice her closing arguments at the dining room table on my dad and me. Equally I told yous, her trademark line was, use your common sense. What rings true. What rings fake. Her trademark line is a good reminder as we sit here today, some 36 years subsequently the declared event occurred when at that place is no corroboration and indeed it is refuted by the people allegedly there.
After I have been in the public loonshit for 26 years without fifty-fifty a hint, a whiff of an allegation like this. And when my nomination to the Supreme Court was only virtually to be voted on, at a time when I'g called evil by a Democratic member of this committee, while Democratic opponents of my nomination say people will die if I'grand confirmed, this onslaught of last-minute allegations does non ring true.
I'm non questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted past some person in some place at some fourth dimension. Just I have never done this to her or to anyone. That's non who I am, information technology is not who I was. I am innocent of this charge. I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford and her family.
The other night, Ashley and my daughter Liza a said their prayers. Fiddling Liza, all of 10 years old, said to Ashley, we should pray for the woman. That's a lot of wisdom from a ten-yr-old. We mean no ill volition.
Start, permit's offset with my career. For the last 26 years since 1992, I have served in many high-contour and sensitive government positions for which the F.B.I. has investigated my background half dozen split times. 6 separate F.B.I. groundwork investigations over 26 years. All of them after the effect declared here. I have been in the public loonshit in under farthermost public scrutiny for decades.
In 1992, I worked for the Office of Solicitor General in the Department of Justice. In 1993, I clerked on the Supreme Courtroom for Justice Anthony Kennedy. I spent four years at the contained counsel'south part during the 1990s. That office was the subject of enormous scrutiny from the media and the public. During 1998, the year of the impeachment of President Clinton, our office mostly and I personally were in the heart of an intense national media and political spotlight. I and other leading members of Ken Starr'south office were opposition research from caput to toe, from nativity through the present day.
Call up the people who were exposed that year of 1998 of having engaged in some sexual wrongdoings or problems in their past. One person on the left fifty-fifty paid a million dollars for reports of sexual wrongdoing. And it worked. Exposed some prominent people. Nada about me.
From 2001 to 2006, I worked for President George W. Bush in the white house. As staff secretary, I was past President Bush-league'south side for three years and was entrusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets. I traveled on Air Force Ane all over the country and the world with President Bush. I went everywhere with him from Texas to Islamic republic of pakistan, from Alaska to Australia, from Buckingham Palace to the Vatican. 3 years in the West Wing, v½ years in the White Firm.
I was then nominated to exist a judge on the D.C. Circuit. I was thoroughly vetted by the White Firm, the F.B.I., the American Bar Association and this committee. I sabbatum before this committee for two thorough confirmation hearings in 2004 and 2006. For the past 12 years, leading upward to my nomination for this job, I've served in a very public arena as a federal guess on what is often referred to as the 2d most important court in the country. I've handled some of the well-nigh meaning and sensitive cases, affecting the lives and liberties of the American people. I have been a good estimate. And for this nomination, another F.B.I. investigation, another American Bar Clan investigation, 31 hours of hearings, 65 senator meetings, 1200 written questions, more than than all previous Supreme Courtroom nominees combined.
Throughout that entire time, throughout my 53 years and seven months on this Earth until last week, no one ever defendant me of any kind of sexual misconduct. No 1 ever. A lifetime. A lifetime of public service and a lifetime of high-profile public service at the highest levels of American government. And never a hint of anything of this kind. And that'due south because nothing of this kind ever happened.
Second, let'south turn to specifics. I categorically and unequivocally deny the allegation against me by Dr. Ford. I never had whatever sexual or physical meet of any kind with Dr. Ford. I never attended a gathering like the 1 that Dr. Ford describes in her allegation. I've never sexually assaulted Dr. Ford or anyone. Once again, I'm not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted past some person, in some place, at some time, only I have never washed that to her or to anyone.
Dr. Ford's accusation stems from a party that she alleges occurred during the summer of 1982. Thirty-vi years ago. I was 17 years old. Between my junior and senior years of loftier schoolhouse at Georgetown Prep, a rigorous all-boys Catholic Jesuit high school in Rockville, Md. When my friends and I spent fourth dimension together at parties on weekends, it was usually with friends from nearby Catholic all-girl loftier schools: Stone Ridge, Holy Kid, Visitation, Immaculata, Holy Cantankerous.
Dr. Ford did not attend one of those schools. She attended an contained individual school named Holton-Arms and she was a year backside me. She and I did not travel in the same social circles. It's possible we met at some point at some events, although I practice not recall that. To repeat, all of the people identified past Dr. Ford equally being present at the party take said they do not remember whatsoever such party ever happening. Importantly, her friend, Ms. Keyser, has not only denied cognition of the party, Ms. Keyser said under penalty of felony, she does not know me. Does non think ever being at a party with me ever. And my ii male friends who were allegedly there, who knew me well, take told this committee nether penalty of felony that they don't recall any such party and I never did or never would practise anything like this.
Dr. Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted past the very people she says were there, including past a longtime friend of hers. Refuted. Third, Dr. Ford has said that this event occurred at a firm nearly Columbia State Club, which is at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and East W highway in Chevy Chase, Medico. In her letter to Senator Feinstein, she said in that location were four other people at the house. But none of those people, nor I, lived near Columbia Country Order. As of the summertime of 1982, Dr. Ford was xv and could not bulldoze nevertheless. And she did non live near Columbia Land Club. She says confidently that she had ane beer at the party. But she does not say how she got to the house in question or how she got home or whose house information technology was.
Fourth, I take submitted to this committee detailed calendars recording my activities in the summer of 1982. Why did I keep calendars? My dad started keeping detailed calendars of his life in 1978. He did so as both a agenda and a diary. He'due south a very organized guy, to put it mildly. Christmastime, we sat effectually and he would tell quondam stories. Former milestones, old weddings, quondam events from his calendars.
In ninth grade — in 9th grade in 1980, I started keeping calendars of my ain. For me too, it'south both a calendar and a diary. I've kept such calendar diaries for the terminal 38 years. Mine are not as adept equally my dad's, in some years, and when I was a child, the calendars are about what y'all would await from a kid. Some goofy parts, some embarrassing parts. But I did have the summer of 1982 documented pretty well.
The issue described past Dr. Ford presumably happened on a weekend because I believe anybody worked and had jobs in the summers. In any event, a drunken early evening event of the kind she describes presumably happened on a weekend. If it was a weekend, my calendars show that I was out of town well-nigh every weekend dark before football training camp started in late August. The simply weekend nights that I was in D.C. were Fri, June four, when I was with my dad at a pro-golf tournament and had my high schoolhouse achievement test at 8:30 the next morning time. I besides was in D.C. on Saturday nighttime, Aug. vii, but I was at a minor gathering at Becky's house in Rockville with Matt, Denise, Lori and Jenny. Their names are all listed on my calendar. I won't use their terminal names here. Then on the weekend of Aug. 20 to 22, I was staying at the Garretts' with Pat and Chris equally we did final preparations for football grooming military camp that began on Sun the 22nd.
As the calendars confirm, that weekend earlier a brutal football training military camp schedule was no time for parties. So allow me emphasize this point: If the political party described by Dr. Ford happened in the summer of 1982 on a weekend dark, my calendar shows all but definitively I was not there. During the weekdays in the summertime of 1982, as yous can encounter, I was out of boondocks for two weeks of the summer for a trip to the beach with friends and at the legendary five-star basketball camp in Honesdale, Pa.
When I was in town, I spent much of my fourth dimension working, working out, lifting weights, playing basketball or hanging out and having some beers with friends as we talked nearly life and football game and school and girls. Some have noticed I didn't have church building on Sundays on my calendars. I also didn't listing brushing my teeth and for me, going to church on Sundays was like brushing my teeth. Automatic. Still is.
In the summer of 1981, I had worked construction. In the summer of 1982, my job was cutting lawns. I had my own business of sorts. Y'all meet some specifics well-nigh the lawn cutting listed on the Baronial calendar folio. When I had the fourth dimension, the last lawn cuttings of the summer of various lawns before football training campsite. I played in a lot of summertime league basketball game games for the Georgetown prep team at night at Blair High School in Silver Spring.
Many nights I worked out with other guys at Tobin's firm. He was the great quarterback on our football team, and his dad ran workouts. We lifted weights at Georgetown prep in preparation for the football season. I attended and watched many sporting events, as is my addiction to this twenty-four hour period. The calendars show a few weekday gatherings at friends' houses to meet upwards and have some beers and work out. Only one of those gathering included the group of people that Dr. Ford has identified. And as my calendars show, I was very precise about listing who was there. Very precise.
And keep in mind, my calendars also are diaries of sorts. Forward-looking and backward-looking, just like my dad'southward. You tin can come across, for case, that I crossed out missed workouts and the canceled doctor'south appointments and that I listed the precise people that had shown upwards for sure events. The calendars are obviously not dispositive on their own, but they're another slice of evidence in the mix for you to consider.
5th, Dr. Ford'southward allegation is radically inconsistent with my record and my graphic symbol from my youth to the present twenty-four hour period. As students at an all-boys Catholic Jesuit school, many of us became friends and remain friends to this day with students at local Catholic all-daughter schools. Ane characteristic of my life — that has remained truthful to the nowadays day — is that I've always had a lot of shut female friends. I'k non talking about girlfriends. I'm talking about friends who are women.
That started in high school. Mayhap information technology was 'cause I'm an only child and had no sisters. Merely we had no social media or texts and e-mail and nosotros talked on the phone. I remember talking about every night, it seemed, to my friends Amy or Julie or Kristin or Karen or Suzanne or Maura or Megan or Nicki. The list goes on. Friends for a lifetime built on a foundation of talking through school and life starting at age 14. Several of those keen women are in the seats right behind me today.
My friends and I sometimes got together and had parties on weekends. The drinking age was eighteen in Maryland for most of my fourth dimension in high school and was 18 in D.C. for all of my time in high school. I drank beer with my friends. Well-nigh anybody did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I withal like beer. But I did not beverage beer to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone.
At that place is a bright line between drinking beer, which I gladly do and which I fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent criminal offence. If every American who drinks beer or every American who drank beer in high school is suddenly presumed guilty of sexual assault, we'll exist an ugly new place in this country.
I never committed sexual assail. Every bit high school students, nosotros sometimes did goofy or stupid things. I dubiousness we were alone in looking back at loftier school and cringing at some things. For one matter, our yearbook was a disaster. I think some editors and some students wanted the yearbook to be a combination of "Creature House," "Caddyshack" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont Loftier," which were all recent movies at that time. Many of us went along in the yearbook to the point of absurdity. This past calendar week, my friends and I accept cringed when nosotros read virtually it and talked to each other.
One thing in particular we're lamentable about: One of our good — one of our good female friends that we admired and went to dances with, we had her name on the yearbook folio with the term "alumnus." That yearbook reference was clumsily meant to evidence affection, that she was one of us. But in this circus, the media has interpreted the term as related to sexual practice. It's not related to sex.
Every bit the woman herself noted to the media on the record, she and I never had any sexual interaction at all. So sorry to her for that yearbook reference. This may sound a flake trivial, given all that we are here for, but one thing I desire to endeavour to make sure of in the future is my friendship with her. She was and is a great person.
Every bit to sexual practice, this is not a topic I ever imagined would come up at a judicial confirmation hearing. But I want to requite you a full picture of who I was. I never had sexual intercourse or anything close to it during loftier school or for many years after that. In some crowds, I was probably a little outwardly shy most my inexperience. Tried to hide that. At the same time I was as well inwardly proud of information technology. For me and the girls who I was friends with, that lack of major or rampant sex in high school was a matter of faith and respect and caution.
The committee has a letter from 65 women who knew me in high school. They said I always treated them with nobility and respect. That alphabetic character came together in i night, 35 years after graduation, while a sexual set on accusation was pending against me in a very fraught and public situation where they knew, they knew they'd be vilified if they defended me.
Think about that. They put themselves on the line for me. Those are some awesome women. And I love all of them.
You also take a letter from women who knew me in college. Most were varsity athletes. And they described that I treated them equally friends and equals and supported them in their sports at a time when women sports was emerging in the wake of Championship IX. I thank all of them for all of their texts and their emails and their support.
Ane of those women friends from college, a self-described liberal and feminist, sent me a text last nighttime that said, "Deep breaths, y'all're a good man, a expert human, a good man."
A text yesterday from another of those women friends from higher said: "Brett, be strong. Pulling for you to my cadre."
A tertiary text yesterday from yet another of those women I'm friends with from college said, "I'chiliad holding you in the lite of God."
Equally I said in my opening statement the last time I was with you: Cherish your friends, look out for your friends, lift up your friends, dearest your friends. I felt that love more than over the last ii weeks than I e'er have in my life. I give thanks all my friends. I love all my friends.
Throughout my life, I've devoted huge efforts to encouraging and promoting the careers of women. I will put my tape up against anyone's, male or female. I am proud of the letter from 84 women, 84 women who worked with me at the Bush-league White House from 2001 to 2006 and described me as "a human being of the highest integrity." Read the op-ed from Sarah Day from Yarmouth, Me. She worked in Oval Office Operations outside of President Bush-league'due south office.
Here'south what she recently wrote in centralmaine.com. And today she stands by her comments: "Brett was an advocate for young women like me. He encouraged me to take on more than responsibility and to experience confident in my role. In fact, during the 2004 Republican National Convention, Brett gave me the opportunity to help with the preparation and review of the president'due south remarks, something I never — something I never would have had the chance to practise if he had not included me. And he didn't just include me in the piece of work. He made sure I was at Madison Foursquare Garden to scout the president's speech instead of back at the hotel watching it on Tv."
As a gauge, since 2006, I've had the privilege of hiring four recent law school graduates to serve as my law clerks each year. The law clerks for federal judges are the best and brightest graduates of American law schools. They work for one-year terms for judges after law schoolhouse then they movement on in their careers.
For judges, training these young lawyers is an important responsibility. The clerks will go the next generation of American lawyers and leaders, judges and senators. Just after I took the bench in 2006, there was a major New York Times story about the low numbers of women law clerks at the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts. I took detect, and I took activeness. A majority of my 48 constabulary clerks over the last 12 years have been women. In a letter to this committee, my women police force clerks said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers, and they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me. In my time on the bench, no federal judge, not a unmarried ane in the country has sent more women law clerks to clerk on the Supreme Courtroom than I have.
Before this allegation arose ii weeks agone, I was required to kickoff making certain administrative preparations for my possible transfer to the Supreme Court, merely in instance I was confirmed. As part of that, I had to in essence contingently rent a first group of iv law clerks who could be available to clerk at the Supreme Court for me on a moment's find. I did and so and contingently hired 4 law clerks. All iv are women. If confirmed, I'll be the outset justice in the history of the Supreme Court to accept a group of all women law clerks. That is who I am. That is who I was.
Over the past 12 years, I've taught constitutional law to hundreds of students, primarily at Harvard Law Schoolhouse, where I was hired by then-Dean and at present-Justice Elena Kagan. One of my former women students, a Democrat, testified to this committee that I was an evenhanded professor who treats people adequately and with respect.
In a letter to this commission, my former students male and female alike wrote that I displayed a graphic symbol that impressed us all. I dearest teaching law. But thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee unleashed, I may never be able to teach over again.
For the past vii years, I've coached my two daughters' basketball game teams. You saw many of those girls when they came to my hearing for a couple of hours. You lot accept a letter from the parents of the girls I coached that depict my dedication, commitment and character. I coached because I know that a girl's confidence on the basketball court translates in the conviction in other aspects of life.
I dear coaching more than anything I have ever done in my whole life. Only thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee have unleashed, I may never be able to passenger vehicle once more.
I've been a judge for 12 years. I accept a long tape of service to America, and to the Constitution. I revere the constitution. I am deeply grateful to President Trump for nominating me. He was so gracious to my family and me on the July night he appear my nomination at the White Business firm.
I give thanks him for his steadfast support. When I accepted the president's nomination, Ashley and I knew this procedure would be challenging. We never expected that information technology would devolve into this. Explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. Ashley has been a rock. I give thanks God every day for Ashley and my family unit.
We live in a country devoted to due procedure and the dominion of law. That means taking allegations seriously. Merely if the mere accusation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted accusation from 36 years ago is plenty to destroy a person's life and career, nosotros will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal organisation and our land.
I ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your begetter, your husband, your brother or your son.
My family and I intend no ill will toward Dr. Ford or her family. But I swear today under oath before the Senate and the nation before my family and God, I am innocent of this charge.
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