and so brett kavanaugh was alert enough to not perjure himself when answering the question, were you bart. he just refused to answer it. something he could never get away with in a courtroom, but something he could get away with again and again in that hearing room because the hearing room is not a courtroom. it does not use the rules of a courtroom. but now republicans want to use the standard of a criminal courtroom to decide the nomination of a supreme court justice. they want to say that if you cannot prosecute a criminal case of rape against brett kavanaugh, then he should be a supreme court justice, even if there are very strong credible accusations that brett kavanaugh did commit the attempted rape of dr. ford and did commit a sexual assault against deborah ramirez at yale. the fbi has been ordered to rush its new investigation of brett kavanaugh. we don't know if the fbi would have found bart kavanaugh's handwritten high school letter if "the new york times" didn't