Brett Kavanaugh's January 2019 Harvard Law School class has been canceled
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been teaching courses at Harvard since 2008, but his time with the university may be coming to an end.
In an email sent to Harvard Law School students Monday, the university said Kavanaugh's class on the Supreme Court, planned to last three weeks starting in January 2019, will no longer be offered, per The Harvard Crimson. Harvard said this is because "Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course."
The Washington Post reports that Harvard students over the past few weeks had been calling on Harvard to cancel Kavanaugh's class over the allegations of sexual misconduct he has faced. Christine Blasey Ford testified under oath last week that Kavanaugh forcibly groped her and attempted to rape her at a high school gathering in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh, also under oath, denied the allegations.
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In response to student outcry, Harvard Law School Dean John Manning had said the school would "take those concerns and allegations seriously," HuffPost reports. Read more at The Harvard Crimson.
