Viewers in both the US and overseas have been responding to the Senate judiciary committee testimonies of Dr Christine Blasey Ford and nominee Brett Kavanaugh, whom she accuses of sexually assaulting her while they were in high school. Kavanaugh denies the allegations.
As scenes played out in court voices of survivors who felt moved to recount their stories reached the airways, a moment captured by Jean Hannah Edelstein, who writes for the Guardian that: “We were all Dr Ford on Thursday.”
In an emotional exchange captured by live TV cameras ahead of the vote, one sexual assault survivor told senator Jeff Flake: “You’re telling me that my assault doesn’t matter and that you’re going to let people who do these things into power.”
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