Sen. Elizabeth Warren has shared a video of Supreme Court nominee (and accused sexual assaulter) Brett Kavanaugh speaking to an audience at the Columbus School of Law and saying, “We’ve had a saying we’ve held firm to to this day, as the dean was reminding me before the talk, which was, what happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep.”
Ew. So, this is a longtime saying among Kavanaugh and his Georgetown Prep peers? Like Fight Club’s oft-repeated slogan: “The first rule of Fight Club is don’t talk about Fight Club”?
Tuesday, Sep 18, 2018 · 9:53:06 PM +00:00
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Jen Hayden
Mother Jones has more on Kavanaugh using this ‘what happens here, stays here’ term. From a 2014 speech to the Federalist Society in which he recalls his heavy drinking Yale Law School days:
I am approaching my eighth anniversary on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my graduation from this school. That means I am approaching the 24th anniversary of my organizing 30 classmates in a bus to go to Boston for a Red Sox game and a night of Boston bar-hopping, only for us to return falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m. One friend of mine, Steve Hartmann, actually had a Labor Law final the next morning. (I checked with him just yesterday to confirm that it was Labor Law.) True story.
On the bus, he actually had his book out and was reading his notes while people were doing group chugs from a keg. He got a P. I think the people doing the group chugs got H’s. Fortunately for all of us, we had a motto, what happens on the bus stays on the bus. Tonight, you can modify that to what happens at the Fed Soc after-party stays at the Fed Soc afterparty.