The temporizing of Christine Blasey Ford last week about testifying and then the agreement to push the hearing off to Thursday was clearly an effort to make time for people to work on Deborah Ramirez, who, after consultations with her lawyer and surely others, finally decided after decades that it was Kavanaugh who allegedly exposed himself to her. Charlie makes makes a good case below as to why The New Yorker disgraced itself running this article. Another item is the Times was working on the Ramirez story and didn’t find anything solid, in fact the opposite:

The Times had interviewed several dozen people over the past week in an attempt to corroborate her story, and could find no one with firsthand knowledge. Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself.

As we say in our editorial today, this is obviously about trying to leverage one weak allegation to support another weak allegation without ever having to prove anything. It’s shameful, and another sign of how far the other side will go to protect Roe. If the Court ever comes close to overturning it, the conservative justices will probably require 24-hour security.