Is Brett Kavanaugh one of the most vicious sexual predators to ever disgrace the federal judiciary? Or a victim of one of the most fevered political witch hunts in American history? It's looking like one of those things must be true. And the American people must be given the chance to discover which.
The space for living with uncertainty between those poles began to collapse on Wednesday, when lawyer Michael Avenatti, he of the Stormy Daniels saga, unveiled a sworn statement from his latest client: a 55-year-old woman named Julie Swetnick. According to The Post, Swetnick is a Web developer living in the Washington area who graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Maryland in 1980.