Is Senate committee equipped to grasp allegations against Kavanaugh?

For all their well-learned politesse, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have scarcely been able to conceal their determination to get Christine Blasey Ford out of their hair.

Ford is the last obstacle to confirming conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. And she's a formidable one. She has alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, when they both were in high school.

The senators know