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The law school at Harvard University announced Monday that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, will not be teaching a three-week course he has typically taught each January. The law school until Monday had said that the course was scheduled. The Boston Globe reported that a law school official sent an email to students that said, "Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered."
Students and alumni, citing reports that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted women in high school and college, have been saying it would be inappropriate for him to teach unless Harvard first conducted an investigation of the accusations, which he denies. "As we have opined in the past, elite institutions -- Yale and Harvard among them -- have long enabled abusers to access the highest corridors of power," said an editorial last week in The Harvard Crimson. "Kavanaugh’s glittering academic history at Yale -- and now his appointment as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law -- does not make him beyond reproach for the crimes of which he is accused. Harvard should seriously consider the allegations against Kavanaugh, and be prepared to terminate his position if it finds them credible."
