Dianne Feinstein silenced Kavanaugh's accuser to protect the status quo

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50. I am not making that reference. I am just describing what the article references as the

status quo. I personally have no idea and no opinion about why she kept the information to herself. I have read the Vox article that claims that the Farrow/Mayer article says she was acting on a belief that an office holder's private life isn't relevant to his public life.

Others on this thread have speculated about what the status quo is that they claim she is protecting. I am just clarifying what the article actually claims that status quo is. (Not everyone reads an article before summarizing what they think it says.)

I have no knowledge about whether what Vox claims Farrow/Mayer say is actually what they say (I haven't read the Farrow/Mayer article). Nor do I have any knowledge on which to base an opinion about whether Feinstein even holds such a belief about private/public life, much less whether such a belief led her to withhold theinformation.

This is from the Vox article:

. . . because, as the New Yorker reports, she didn’t want his confirmation hearings to be about his private life.

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Feinstein seems to believe that what a powerful man has allegedly done in a bedroom, even criminal behavior, is irrelevant to what he might do in a courtroom. She’s stuck in an era that differentiated between “personal” and “public” conduct, even when the two clearly intersect, as they do in this case.

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