US feminists protest against Kavanaugh appointment
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee to take the recently retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s place on the US Supreme Court, is in the eye of a media storm. Feminists in the US already had cause to regard Kavanaugh as a serious threat to women’s rights: the fate of Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion lawful until the point of viability, hangs in the balance. Now two sexual assault allegations give us further, chilling reasons to consider Kavanaugh a danger to women. The first allegation is from Dr Christine Blasey Ford, a psychologist and professor of...