Chua confessed that she was in a "a long fight for survival" during the tumultuous period in which the uproar around the Kavanaugh confirmation gripped Yale Law school’s students and faculty.

And like Kavanaugh — for whom Trump’s first administration reportedly heavily controlled the FBI investigation into Ford’s allegations — the soon-to-be secretary of defense appears to be sailing ...

Brett Kavanaugh started off shouting. He’d prepared a blistering defence of his character and a scathing rebuke of the “national disgrace” of his Supreme Court confirmation process.