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Brookings Scholar Criticizes Democrat Perjury Charges Against Kavanaugh, Gets Forced Off Twitter

Ashe Schow

A scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution called out Democrats who are accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of perjury. The next day, he left Twitter after a backlash ensued.

Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow at Brookings and the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog. After seeing a tweet thread from David Lat, a lawyer and founder of the Above The Law blog, providing some much needed context to the charge that Kavanaugh lied under oath, Wittes made his own thread.

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