Democrats are right. Judge Brett Kavanaugh does have a jaw-dropping record with women — but it is one that should lead to women's support, not opposition. As a father (and basketball coach) of two lovely daughters, he takes his role in advocating for women seriously. Astoundingly, he has hired more women as law clerks than men. Eighty-four percent of those women have gone on to clerk at the Supreme Court. And he is the only D.C. Circuit judge to have ever hired four women in the same year for a clerkship.
Judge Kavanaugh does not hire ideologically — he hires women in record number regardless of their points of view. His former female law clerks, coming from diverse ideological persuasions, enthusiastically support Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, not in spite of his position on women, but because of his advocacy for women.
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