Christine Blasey Ford gives her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

be the duty of the president and Congress to protect the Supreme Court from exactly this sort of degradation.

Because Donald Trump refused to allow an FBI investigation, the Senate hearing became allimportant. And there was something truly allamerican about the whole spectacle: its brutality, its drama and the transformation of politics and trauma into Tvscreen entertainment.

To me, Dr Blasey-ford sounded credible while Mr Kavanaugh looked defensive, arrogant and