Ruth Marcus

“classmates, her hand placed on his penis. This was, potentially, the corroboration that had been lacking, although one significant problem was that Harmon herself had told friends she didn’t recall any such incident and she refused to speak with reporters chasing the story. That didn’t necessarily mean it didn’t happen, however: Harmon, in Stier’s recollection, appeared heavily inebriated at the time.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“Kavanaugh is your guy,” he told them—he’s not some culture-warrior or right-wing ideologue but an establishment Republican. “He’s too big to fail at this point,” Davis argued. “If he fails we lose the Senate, Trump loses reelection, we lose the Supreme Court, we lose the country”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover