

On Monday morning the upperclassmen would return from the weekend with stories about keg parties, girls, and hours spent in bars in Georgetown…. Judge has reportedly been cooperating with the FBI in its renewed background investigation of the nominee.Įarly in the book, Judge introduces readers to the culture of alcohol he witnessed at Georgetown Prep, writing: “It soon became obvious that drinking was one of the major forms of recreation at Prep. The book colors Judge’s reliability as an alibi for Kavanaugh. Judge writes of being “terrified of what I could have done” during one post-high school bender. Wasted also chronicles Judge’s frequent, self-described alcoholic blackouts - and his fears of what he was unable to remember. Judge has said, “ I have no memory of this alleged incident. (Kavanaugh has categorically denied Ford’s charges.

Judge’s addiction memoir provides a vivid backdrop of fast times at Georgetown Prep - offering outsiders a lens through which to interpret his and Kavanaugh’s alleged interaction with Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of a teenage sexual assault, with Judge an alleged witness. When Mark Judge wrote Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk in 1997, he could hardly have imagined it would be scrutinized, two decades later, in consideration of his football- and drinking buddy Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. A pivotal job as a bag boy at a grocery store.
