What Happens When You ‘Black Out’ From Drinking?

The term “blackout” is being thrown around in regard to the allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman while they were both in high school. Time and time again, the phrase “black out” is used to describe basically whatever anyone wants it to mean, with a former drinking buddy of Kavanaugh’s claiming the nominee lied because he denied “the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking.”

This former drinking buddy, Chad Ludington, provides no evidence that Kavanaugh ever blacked out — and I don’t mean physical evidence. He didn’t even say he and Kavanaugh had ever discussed not remembering the night before; he simply implied that because he had seen Kavanaugh really drunk, he must have blacked out.