Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The investigation on Kavanaugh in regards to the alleged sexual assault of Christine Blasey Ford was dropped due to not having sufficient evidence to prove him guilty. The American people are now seeing the Internet flooded with claims about “rape culture” and how the confirmation of Kavanaugh could be discounting what Ford has claimed to have gone through. However, there’s another perspective that should be taken into account when discussing why voting Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court was a bad idea, and that perspective is from the side of protecting the image of our government.
The issue with Kavanaugh isn’t what he may or may not have done in the past. Although those factors definitely still matter, the issue is that he was accused of such things in general. To put into context, let’s say for example you own a business. You’re in the process of hiring someone and you look into their criminal record. They were once accused of being an alleged sex offender but was never proven guilty. It is logical for the sake of protecting not only the image of your business but the image of yourself as well to not hire this person. Hiring someone like that who in someone else’s eyes is viewed under the scope of being a criminal is a lot of baggage to attach to your company. From then on, you will have the stamp of the organization who hired a man who allegedly forced himself upon someone. Kavanaugh, under the eyes of the law, is innocent. However, especially during these times where the Me Too movement is only growing and showing how much sexual assault actually happens, the Senate shouldn’t have voted Kavanaugh in.
Now while America sees itself as the fairest of them all via the mirror on the wall, and since the constitution by which the American government abides by religiously makes confirming Kavanaugh legally okay, is that smart? The first initial hearing of Ford v. Kavanaugh was a spectacle of its own in terms of how Senators behaved and how big of a moment it was in terms of today’s current social issues. Now the Senate has voted Kavanaugh in and on Twitter alone one can see how the American people feel about that. Whether Kavanaugh deserves the spot in the Supreme Court or not is up to the Senate’s own line of thinking, but one thing is for sure. the Senate elected an alleged rapist to be a judge in the highest most powerful court in the country. Let that sink in. It may not be my place to say whether he is guilty or not, but that just doesn’t have a nice ring to it.
