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Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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    Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 16 Sep 2018

    Tom Nichols Retweeted Marque  🇪🇺  🌊 🌊 🌊

    I'm not making the argument that committing a crime is right, I'm worried that high school will now be the disqualification for everything else later on. With that said, @Susan_Hennessey and others are making me think harder about the SCOTUS angle. /1https://twitter.com/mtmaire/status/1041418346829414400 …

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    Marque  🇪🇺  🌊 🌊 🌊 @mtmaire
    Replying to @DavidBCollum @TheOnion @RadioFreeTom
    Tom make other good points, such as what Kavanaugh might have said or not to FBI. Whole story is complicated by recent decades' changing mores on nasty male high jinks versus assault.
    1:11 PM - 16 Sep 2018
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      2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 16 Sep 2018

        Because I'm also swayed by @asymmetricinfo's argument that this is why we seal juvenile records. (I totally reject any equivalence between one night at 17 and accusations against Clarence Thomas as an adult pattern, but that's a different argument.) /2

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      3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 16 Sep 2018

        But there's one aspect to all this that would bring me to the side of disqualification: if this happened as the accuser describes it, and BK has since lied about it or refused to accept it even privately, then it *does* say something about SCOTUS character. /3

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      4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 16 Sep 2018

        This means that we need to know if her version of it is as she stated it. And if he was ever asked about it. But I still think when this is over we have to ask ourselves if our actions as minors in high school are the last word on our lives 35 years later. /4x

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      1. Nurse Revolution‏ @RevolutionNurse 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        But at what age are we responsible for sexually assaulting someone?

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      1. The OG‏ @theogpolitician 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        Dude, you don't fucking get it, do ya? If you have forced yourself onto anyone during any fucking part of your life, you are a piece of shit who has no place in our government. How is this so difficult to comprehend?

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      1. Adam‏ @AtomK13 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        The “slippery slope,” is a bad argument in and of itself, but what about the idea that maybe we should hold the nine most important judges in America to an impeccably high standard?

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      2. Paul Smith‏ @Poconosguy 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        Good Lord Tom, do you even realize what you’re saying? Once again, I ask you what if it was your son who had done this? More so, what if your daughter had been assaulted by this nominee? You have no moral compass.

        1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
      3. ATXRambler‏ @rambler_atx 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @Poconosguy @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        He'd be worried that some day his son couldn't become a Supreme Court justice (I'm not even kidding, look at his TL)

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      2. Kieran Gosney‏ @KieranGos 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        That's a bit of a dodge. It's not his going to high school that's being criticised, it's alleged attempted rape. You're worried alleged attempted rape as a minor will be disqualifying for everything else later on. Be clear and people won't rag on you.

        1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
      3. justasnakenow‏ @pvulgarity 16 Sep 2018
        Replying to @KieranGos @RadioFreeTom @Susan_Hennessey

        I mean, that’s pretty objectionable in and of itself. Going to go out on limb that it’s the underlying thought process people are reacting to, and not the fig leaves over it.

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