Within this deeply researched account, among Washington’s top legal reporters discloses the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the nation’s highest court.

Trump had promised to nominate just Scalia-style ‘originalists’ towards the Court-a promise he backed up with a summary of potential nominees. The remaining required him at his word, setting up a titanic political clash when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his pension about Search and Destroy: In the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh in June 2018.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh sent Democratic senators racing to the cameras to announce their opposition, while an armada of activist groups, fueled by “dark money,” launched a coordinated pr assault of unparalleled scope and fury. Kavanaugh was nevertheless on the brink of verification when the Democrats, in desperation, disclosed an allegation of teenaged sexual assault against the stunned nominee, turning Christine Blasey Ford right into a #MeToo icon.

Ryan Lovelace reports how Kavanaugh’s opponents, unable to create a shred of corroboration, resorted towards the court of open public opinion, where in fact the guidelines of evidence and standards of fairness favor the prosecution.