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The whole claim seems pretty tenuous, honestly. From 30 years ago, not mentioned at all until 2012 (in private) and just now publicly. It could be legit, and deserves investigation, but on its face it definitely seems sketchy.

But I don't even care anymore. Mitch McConnell played every cheap, dirty trick in the book to steal a Supreme Court nomination, holding it up for 11 months without even giving a hearing so "the voters can decide" and now is rushing his ass off to push this one through in mere weeks because he knows the voters are about to decide to take away his party's majority.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/19/opinions/gop-cant-handle-the-truth-on-kavanagh-begala/index.html

The Republicans' blockade of Garland was without precedents and without conscience. They did it because they could. And now the same folks who delayed Garland forever are rushing to a vote on Kavanaugh for the same reason: pure power politics.
While Garland's only sin was to be nominated by President Obama, Kavanaugh has been accused by Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) of misleading the Senate while under oath. And, of course, even more troubling, he has been accused by Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist, of sexual assault. And yet the Republicans refuse to ask the FBI to investigate her allegations.
The GOP would rather get the confirmation right away than get it right. The folks who said the Senate shouldn't even hold a hearing for Judge Garland during an election year are pushing a vote just weeks before an election.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Mitch.

So yeah, fuck it. I don't even care how legit or not the claim even is at this point. It's time to fight back. If Obama's nomination hadn't been stolen, we wouldn't even be in a situation where Anthony Kennedy's replacement could tilt the court 5-4 in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade.
If this was Garland facing this accusation, the GOP Congress would've already turned the whole thing into a political side show w/ hearings and investigative committees. But because it's Trump's pick, they'll do all they can to avoid even a basic FBI investigation.