{"id":165010,"date":"2026-10-14T13:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/brett-kavanaugh-has-a-question-about-consent-yes-really\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:21:29","slug":"brett-kavanaugh-has-a-question-about-consent-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/brett-kavanaugh-has-a-question-about-consent-yes-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Kavanaugh Has A Question About Consent. Yes, Really."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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BRETT KAVANAUGH: “Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?” Just saying\u2026 if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN’T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that’s just me.<\/p>\n

\u2014 ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-10-14T14:16:19.028Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> <\/b>Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and former Above the Law editor, commenting on Bluesky<\/a> after Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked how consent would work during Supreme Court oral arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a privacy case concerning the Video Privacy Protection Act. Considering the sexual assault allegations that dominated Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearings \u2014 which he denied \u2014 you\u2019d think he\u2019d choose his words a little more carefully.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i>Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and former Above the Law editor, commenting on Bluesky<\/a> after Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked how consent would work during Supreme Court oral arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a privacy case concerning the Video Privacy Protection Act. Considering the sexual assault allegations that dominated Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearings \u2014 which he denied \u2014 you\u2019d think he\u2019d choose his words a little more carefully.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. BRETT KAVANAUGH: “Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?” Just saying\u2026 if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN’T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that’s just me. \u2014 ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2026-10-14T14:16:19.028Z \u2014 Elie Mystal, justice correspondent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}