A documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night contains never-before-seen evidence of sexual misconduct committed by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to multiple reports.
Titled “Justice,” the existence of the project was cloaked in secrecy before making its surprise debut, Rolling Stone reported. This is the first non-fiction film for director Doug Liman, known for 2002’s “The Bourne Identity,” and highlights some of the allegations against Kavanaugh and the lack of an FBI investigation.
Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation hearing was highly controversial because of the raw and emotional testimony given by Christine Blasey Ford, who said Kavanaugh violently assaulted her at a drunken party as a teenager in the 1980s.
After angrily denying the allegations at a public hearing, he was just confirmed for the role of a lifetime.
Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, has also come forward with allegations against the judge, although she did not testify. He told The New Yorker in 2018 that Kavanaugh once drunkenly defecated in his college dorm room. He allegedly pushed her towards her, and she pushed him away, accidentally touching her. At least seven people heard about the incident before Kavanaugh’s ascension as a federal judge, The New York Times later reported.
While making “Justice,” Liman obtained an audio recording made by a former Yale classmate of Kavanaugh and Ramirez, Max Stier, multiple outlets reported.
Stier is currently the CEO and president of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization working to promote good government.
While the allegations on the tapes were reported by The New York Times in 2019, the tapes themselves have not been made public.
Stier reported that while living in the same Yale dorm as Kavanaugh, he watched Kavanaugh drunkenly expose his penis to different young women. Then, his friends allegedly pushed his penis into his hand. The woman, then a freshman, blacked out that night from drinking and did not want her name to be famous, the filmmakers said in the Q&A session after the premiere.
Stier’s account also helps Ramirez fill in the gaps in his own story.
While he didn’t see what happened to him, Stier said on tape that he heard about it, The Daily Beast reported. He reportedly heard that after forcing Ramirez to face his penis, Kavanaugh allegedly went to the bathroom where his friends encouraged him to get an erection. After that, he allegedly returned to harass Ramirez again.
Ramirez is interviewed in the film along with Ford’s friends; Liman said in the Q&A that he didn’t interview Ford because he had been through so much. Likewise, Stier declined to be interviewed, as did Kavanaugh, Rolling Stone reported.
“I hope this provokes anger,” producer Amy Herdy said in a Q&A, The Guardian reported.
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