https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-blasey-metoo-supreme-court.html
President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the supreme court is facing some uncertainty due to the recent accusations of sexual assault against the judge. Events later this week may reveal if the nominee did or did not sexually assault accusor Christine Blasely Ford when they were teenagers. The emotional fight over this nomination shows how the #MeToo movement has slowly integrated itself into American culture. The #MeToo movement is a platform that has helped many women speak out about being sexually harassed. The author of this article states that Christine would never have the ability to have the voice that she did without this movement.
This article was published on Saturday, September 29. It was written for the purpose of explaining how the Kavanaugh battle shows the power that the #MeToo movement has on society. It's great that people are being able to speak up, but the problem is that the definition of sexual assault is so subjective. People are reporting feeling uncomfortable by just being looked at. But that's not saying that what Kavanaugh is being accused of is completely inappropriate. The Kavanaugh can be loosely related back to pre-revolution times when the colonists were denied the basic right as Englishmen of innocent until proven guilty. Right now they are investigating Kavanaugh to find the truth, but until they find proof that he did assault Christine people are assuming he's guilty.
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