So Dahlia Lithwick was shaken so badly that she couldn’t return to work by the Kavanaugh hearing, a hearing which produced not the slightest evidence that Brett had ever even met Christine Blasey Ford. She in fact still agonizes about it in (erroneous) detail to this day. Yet in Lady Justice Lithwick is valorizing Roberta Kaplan, who according to the New York Times an official report “found to be involved in an effort to discredit one of Mr. [Andrew] Cuomo’s alleged victims.”

There’s more. As part of her promotional tour, Lithwick did an extended interview with her old friend … Al Franken. Franken, a former Saturday Night Live writer and personality, resigned from the Senate in 2017 among accusations of sexual misconduct. There were eight accusations in total, including Leeann Tweeden, a radio news anchor, who says Franken groped and forcibly kissed her during a USO tour in 2006, before the former comedian was a senator. Tweeded says Franken “aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth” when the pair rehearsed a skit that featured a kiss. A photo emerged showing Franken looking at a camera while pretending to grab Tweeden’s breasts as she was sleeping.

Imagine if such a photo showing me or Brett doing something similar ever came out.

Imagine Dahlia’s trauma.