Talk:Brett Kavanaugh

::In short, Judy Munro-Leighton admitted to writing the letter and reiterated her accusation of rape against Kavanaugh. She later recanted her authorship of the letter as well as her accusation. If we want to detach her association from the letter, a more accurate description would read something like "''Four other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, one anonymous, and another whom later recanted her story.''" But this feels needlessly protracted. In addition, Swetnick has also somewhat recanted her claim against Kavanaugh as detailed later in the article. I'm not sure if that means the line should now change to ""Four other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, one anonymous, and two of whom later recanted their story." [[User:StalkerFishy|StalkerFishy]] ([[User talk:StalkerFishy|talk]]) 12:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

::In short, Judy Munro-Leighton admitted to writing the letter and reiterated her accusation of rape against Kavanaugh. She later recanted her authorship of the letter as well as her accusation. If we want to detach her association from the letter, a more accurate description would read something like "''Four other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, one anonymous, and another whom later recanted her story.''" But this feels needlessly protracted. In addition, Swetnick has also somewhat recanted her claim against Kavanaugh as detailed later in the article. I'm not sure if that means the line should now change to ""Four other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, one anonymous, and two of whom later recanted their story." [[User:StalkerFishy|StalkerFishy]] ([[User talk:StalkerFishy|talk]]) 12:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

:::The original change was not "unexplained." It is discussed above. Somebody made an anonymous allegation, which has never been withdrawn. Somebody falsely claimed authorship of the anonymous allegation, and then admitted she wasn't the author. The article misleadingly suggests the original allegation was withdrawn. This was all discussed above. [[User:Mevsherd|Mevsherd]] ([[User talk:Mevsherd|talk]]) 01:30, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

:::The original change was not "unexplained." It is discussed above. Somebody made an anonymous allegation, which has never been withdrawn. Somebody falsely claimed authorship of the anonymous allegation, and then admitted she wasn't the author. The article misleadingly suggests the original allegation was withdrawn. This was all discussed above. [[User:Mevsherd|Mevsherd]] ([[User talk:Mevsherd|talk]]) 01:30, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

::::It was not discussed. You requested a specific change. Another user responded saying they didn't agree with you and instead preferred to remove the mention entirely. You then went ahead and made the change. I reverted that change because it was not sufficiently explained or justified.

::::The article states the allegation was withdrawn, which it was. But it was withdrawn by someone who later said they didn't make that specific allegation, and instead made another one. Please review the two draft changes I recommended in my comment above.

::::Figuring out how many accusations were made, who made them, and which were recanted is a messy task. As I'm reading through this article again, the Swetnick allegation has also been largely walked back, albeit not fully recanted. I'm unsure how/if that detail should be included as well.

::::Again, I'm happy to have a conversation about how best to characterize all of this.

::::[[User:StalkerFishy|StalkerFishy]] ([[User talk:StalkerFishy|talk]]) 11:42, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

:::@[[User:StalkerFishy|StalkerFishy]] The question was why did you revert the edit without an explanation. You also reverted the intervening change. [[User:Mmemaigret|Mme Maigret]] ([[User talk:Mmemaigret|talk]]) 09:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

:::@[[User:StalkerFishy|StalkerFishy]] The question was why did you revert the edit without an explanation. You also reverted the intervening change. [[User:Mmemaigret|Mme Maigret]] ([[User talk:Mmemaigret|talk]]) 09:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)