Two of Kavanaugh’s Classmates Withdraw Support Over ‘Partisan’ Hearing Testimony
“We fear that partisanship has injected itself into Judge Kavanaugh’s candidacy,” two of his Yale classmates wrote.

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Two college classmates of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh who previously endorsed the judge’s confirmation withdrew their support in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday due to the “nature of Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony.” In the letter, Michael Proctor and Mark Osler, who attended Yale with Kavanaugh, described Kavanaugh’s testimony in front of the Senate panel last week as “partisan, and not judicious, and inconsistent with what we expect from a Justice in the Supreme Court.” “Under the current circumstances, we fear that partisanship has injected itself into Judge Kavanaugh’s candidacy,” they wrote. The pair had signed a letter in late August supporting his confirmation to the Supreme Court and attesting to his “exemplary judicial temperament.”
Two former Yale classmates of Kavanaugh's who previously vouched for him just wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee to note they are withdrawing their support because of "the nature of Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony." pic.twitter.com/b0DEQIbYQF
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 2, 2018
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