This time, it’s not what Kavanaugh did. It’s what his supporters did to shore up his image as a friend of minority law students.
In an effort organized in part by one of Shreveport, LA mayoral candidate Adrian Perkins’ Harvard Law School classmates, they sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Kavanaugh’s behalf.
The letter praises Kavanaugh for meeting with members of Harvard’s Black Law Students Association last March to offer “insights and advice” on gaining judicial clerkships.
The students who have signed below write to express appreciation for the Judge’s enthusiasm on this issue and hope that his efforts will be taken into consideration.
Among the eight signatures is Adrian Perkins’.
From today’s Bayou Brief (emphasis mine):
Yesterday, The Bayou Brief reported that Adrian Perkins, a 32-year-old Democratic candidate for mayor of Shreveport, was one of only eight former or current members of Harvard Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) listed as a signatory of a letter submitted to both the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee praising embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Perkins, who has refused to answer or acknowledge our repeated requests for comment, reacted to the report on social media and in an e-mail sent to The Shreveport Times, alleging that his name and others were used without their permission.
If his allegations of fraud are true, the letter, which was entered into the public record on Aug. 29 and mentioned by Sen. Mike Crapo during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing on Sept. 6, should raise significant questions about the integrity and credibility of the Senate’s rushed effort to approve the nomination.
“This is a letter that exhibits Judge Kavanaugh’s commitment to fostering diversity in the legal profession,” Crapo said.
Perkins also denies ever meeting Kavanaugh and says that several more of the letter’s signature are also fraudulent.
So someone at Harvard Law School has no problem breaking the law to get this man on the Supreme Court.
What else is out there?