Yale students gripped by Brett Kavanaugh hearing
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The Brett Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday had students glued to televisions and their phones at Yale University, the Ivy League institution where the U.S. Supreme Court nominee attended college and law school.
About 70 students watched in a lounge at Yale Law School as Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in the 1980s. Some students gasped during the testimony, said Alyssa Peterson, a third-year law student from Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
"As a survivor of sexual assault myself, my heart aches for her," Peterson said. "What she's going through is just unimaginable.