Much has been said about the back-to-back testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh. For Ford’s family members, her testimony Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was moving, bringing them to tears. His only confused them, Ford’s sisters-in-law, Deborah Peters and Sandra Mendler, told CNN on Friday. I just felt like I was right there with her, with her pain, as I think a lot of people probably felt,” Peters said. Peters and Mendler have been spokeswomen of sorts for Ford’s family, many of whom have largely kept quiet as Ford’s sexual assault allegation disrupted Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Source: Washington Post September 29, 2018 17:24 UTC