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Supreme Court Nominations

Analysis of Profile

Mark Judge

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As below are the salient features of Mark Judge’s Profile copied from the Google Network:

Judge was born in 1964; his father is Joseph Judge. His father had graduated from Catholic University of America in 1950 and subsequently became a journalist for Life and then for National Geographic.

Judge grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland. Judge describes his parents as often inattentive and recounts that he observed his father’s heavy drinking of alcohol Judge started drinking at 14. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, graduating in 1983. Judge was friends with classmate Brett Kavanaugh; both were in the same class there with Maryland State Senate member Richard Madaleno. The period became the subject of scrutiny in 2018 when Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the United States Supreme Court, and allegations surfaced that in 1982 Judge witnessed Kavanaugh sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, then a student from a local girls’ school. Judge received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1990.

Mark Gauvreau Judge is an American author and journalist. His books include several memoirs about his suburban Montgomery County, Maryland childhood and his struggle to overcome alcoholism, including Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk and God and Man at Georgetown Prep.

Judge became a widely discussed figure during the 2018 Supreme Court nomination hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, when professor Christine Blasey Ford alleged that Judge was present and laughing as Kavanaugh
sexually assaulted her when they were high school students over 30 years previously. Judge said he had no memory of the incident.

Judge was a freelance writer in 1989 in the Washington, D.C. area. By 1990 he had become a contributor to The Progressive, In These Times, and Sojourners. Judge briefly taught at Georgetown University but left in the 1990s. In 1997 Judge wrote Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, a memoir about his youthful alcoholism. The New York Times review called it a “naive and earnest” book. Judge resided in Potomac, Maryland in 1998. Judge was a contributing writer to New York Press in 1999.

In 2018, Judge was implicated in an alleged sexual assault that surfaced after his high school classmate Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. On September 27, Christine Blasey Ford testified under oath before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary that when all three were in high school at a party in 1982, Judge and Kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom where Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her, and attempted to remove her clothing against her will while Judge watched and laughed. Judge told The New Yorker that he had “no recollection” of the alleged incident. In a follow-up interview with The Weekly Standard, Judge called the allegations “just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.” Asked if there was “rough-housing” with female peers that the Weekly Standard interviewer suggested “might have been interpreted differently by parties involved”, Judge said he only recollected it taking place among the male students of the all-boys school: “I don’t remember any of that stuff going on with girls.” He subsequently sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying, “I have no memory of this alleged incident.” Judge also stated he did not wish to speak publicly about the incident. Following the announcement of the allegations, Judge temporarily moved to a beach house in Bethany Beach, Delaware under recommendation of his lawyer. He was found a week later by a Washington Post reporter outside the home, along with his car, which was filled with his belongings.

Multiple U.S. senators acquired copies of Judge’s books about his time with Kavanaugh at Georgetown Preparatory School, to prepare for questioning Kavanaugh and Ford before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In a subsequent New Yorker article, Elizabeth Rasor, who was once in a relationship with Judge for three years, stated that “Mark told me a very different story.” She said he told her of taking turns having sex with drunk women at Georgetown Prep. Another woman also disputed Judge’s account of the social scene at the time, sending a letter to Ford’s lawyers saying that she had witnessed boys at parties, that included Georgetown Prep students, engaging in sexual misconduct.

On September 28, 2018, Senator Richard Blumenthal made a motion before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary to subpoena Judge to testify about Kavanaugh.

Blumenthal said before calling his motion, “He has never been questioned by any member of our committee. He has never submitted a detailed account of what he knows and so I move … that we subpoena Mark Judge.”

Blumenthal noted, “The third person in the room was Mark Judge, who was never questioned by the FBI or interviewed by the committee.”

Republicans defeated the motion for a subpoena on a party-line vote. US Congressman Ted Lieu of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary and Congressman Elijah Cummings of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform stated their intentions to subpoena Judge and call him for testimony before the US Congress, after the 2018 US midterm elections. After Republican US Senator Jeff Flake called for an FBI investigation, Judge released a statement that he would cooperate with all law enforcement authorities regarding the allegations against Kavanaugh. After a request from Flake, followed by a request from the US Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump ordered an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations.

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