(CNN) The Brett Kavanaugh hearings feel like a decision moment in American life when everyone has to choose where they stand. Timothy StanleyThe Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh had been pretty much going as planned until news broke that he is accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault. The alleged assault occurred at a party in the 1980s when Kavanaugh and Ford were teenagers. If she's telling the truth, what Kavanaugh did was horrendous, and he clearly has no place in the judiciary at all. But if they stand by Kavanaugh and he makes it to the Supreme Court, they could be stuck with a man on the bench haunted by the accusation of sexual assault.

Source: CNN September 18, 2018 12:28 UTC