“Select a neutral investigative body with experience in sexual misconduct cases that will investigate the incident in question and present its findings to the committee. Outcomes in such investigations are more reliable and less likely to be perceived as tainted by partisanship.” That’s some advice on how to handle the soon-to-reopen Brett Kavanaugh hearings. And it comes from one of the few people who has firsthand experience with such matters. Anita Hill: How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right. (It will be tough to get the hearings right if they happen in the absence of any real investigative effort.)

+ To place the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings into context, you have to go back and watch some outtakes from Anita Hill’s testimony. On one hand, Christine Blasey Ford will testify in the age of the MeToo movement and during what one assumes is a more generally woke era. On the other hand, Anita Hill didn’t have to contend with the constant onslaught of social media.

+ As of now, the hearing is scheduled for Monday, although Christine Blasey Ford has yet to respond to the invitation.

+ From President Trump: “I don’t think the FBI should be involved because they don’t want to be involved.” (If only there were someone in a position to compel them to get involved…) During a press conference, Trump added: “I feel so badly for him that he is going through this to be honest with you. I feel so badly for him. This is not a man that deserves this. Honestly I feel terribly for him, for his wife who is an incredible lovely woman. And for his beautiful young daughters. I feel terribly for them.” Here’s the latest.