1. On the eve of hearings at which one of the Supreme Court nominee’s accusers will testify, a theme has emerged as friends and acquaintances recall him as a youth: heavy drinking.

Extreme inebriation is also central in the account of a third accuser. Represented by Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels, she offered an account — but no witnesses — of alcohol-soaked parties when they were teenagers at which women were verbally abused, inappropriately touched and “gang raped.”

She said she saw him line up outside a bedroom where “numerous boys” were “waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.”