ERICKSON: Serious Does Not Mean Credible

Professor Christine Blasey Ford has made a serious allegation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s second nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Progressive activists seeking to scuttle Kavanaugh’s nomination would have us believe that Ford’s allegations are credible because they are serious. We should not confuse the two.

Ford claims that, in an indeterminate year but at least 35 years ago, in an indeterminate location, with an indeterminate group of people, Kavanaugh drunkenly attempted to sexually assault Ford, both of them then high school students. The only details Ford can remember are that Kavanaugh did it, aided by another high school student named Mark Judge, while another high school student named Patrick Smyth was in the house. All three men deny it. Ford says she told no one until 2012, by which time Kavanaugh’s name had circulated in the media as a potential Supreme Court pick by Mitt Romney.