2 of Kavanaugh's Yale Law School classmates withdraw their support

Two of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's classmates from law school notified the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that they are withdrawing their support of the judge.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee's top Democrat, Michael J. Proctor and Mark Osler said that "under the current circumstances, we fear that partisanship has injected itself into Judge Kavanaugh's candidacy. That, and the lack of judicial temperament displayed on Sept. 27 hearing, cause us to withdraw our support."

In August, Proctor, Osler, and 21 other classmates Kavanaugh knew at Yale Law School signed a letter saying Kavanaugh had "exemplary judicial temperament." Their opinion changed after watching his combative testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, as he answered questions about the sexual assault allegation made against him by Christine Blasey Ford. "In our view," Proctor and Osler wrote, "that testimony was partisan, and not judicious, and inconsistent with what we expect from a justice of the Supreme Court, particularly when dealing with a co-equal branch of government."

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