The biggest eye-opener in
Justice comes more than midway through its compact and efficient 85-minute runtime, when Liman receives a tip that leads him to an anonymous individual who provides a tape made by Stier shortly after the FBIcompelled by Ford's courageous and heartrending testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committeebriefly reopened
its investigation into embattled then-nominee Kavanaugh.
In it, Stier relays that he lived in the same Yale dorm as Kavanaugh and, one evening, wound up in a room where
he saw a severely inebriated Kavanaugh with his pants down, at which point a group of rowdy soccer players forced a drunk female freshman to hold Kavanaugh's *****. Stier states that he knows this tale "first-hand," and that the young woman in question did not subsequently remember the incident, nor did she want to come forward after she'd seen the vile treatment that Ford and Ramirez were subjected to by the public, the media, and the government. The Daily Beast has reached out to Justice Kavanaugh for comment about the fresh allegations.
Stier goes on to explain that, though he didn't know Ramirez, he had heard from classmates about her separate, eerily similar encounter with Kavanaugh, which she personally describes in
Justice. According to Ramirez, an intoxicated Kavanaugh exposed himself right in front of her face in college, and that she suppressed memories of certain aspects of this trauma until she was contacted by
The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow.
As Ramirez narrates in a trembling tone that seems on the perpetual verge of cracking, she suffered this indignity quietly, convinced that she was to blame for it (because she too was under the influence) and humiliated by the guffaws of the other men in the room. Her account is convincing in its specificity, and moving in its anguish.
New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc (yahoo.com) "Cults don't end well. They really don't."
