Kavanaugh Confirmation Kavanaugh in 2015: 'What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep'

Georgetown Prep's unofficial saying, according to Brett Kavanaugh: What happens there, stays there.

The Supreme Court nominee made the crack in a 2015 speech at Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, which he said was the alma mater of three of his friends. Kavanaugh said the trio had also been classmates when he attended Catholic high school at Georgetown Prep.


"But fortunately, we had a good saying that we've held firm to to this day ... which is: What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep," Kavanaugh said, according to a video of the speech. "I think that's been a good thing for all of us."

Kavanaugh gave no other context for the joke, but it gained attention anyway after it first surfaced on MSNBC because the judge has recently been accused of misconduct while he was a high school student.

Christine Blasey Ford on Sunday came forward as the woman who had anonymously alleged that when they were both in high school, Kavanaugh had drunkenly groped her and pinned her down on a bed while a friend watched. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted the clip of Kavanaugh joking about Georgetown Prep, adding: "I can't imagine any parent accepting this view. Is this really what America wants in its next Supreme Court Justice?"

Kavanaugh and Ford have been asked to testify at a hearing slated for Monday, but Ford has yet to say whether she will attend.

The 2015 talk in which the high-school joke arose was part of a lecture series in which Kavanugh was asked to talk about partisanship.

“Judges need to follow the law, not make the law," Kavanaugh said during the speech. "That has to be our aspiration in a system of evenhanded justice. You have to check political allegiances at the door when you become a judge.”

