WASHINGTON šC Future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two fellow Yale University students were in an off-campus bar back in 1985.
They had just come from seeing the English reggae band UB40 at a nearby venue in New Haven, Connecticut, when they saw a man who resembled the lead singer. The man told the trio he wasn¡¯t the singer and brusquely told them to stop looking at him. Kavanaugh couldn¡¯t let the comment pass, according to one of the two friends with Kavanaugh that night.
Kavanaugh first cursed at the man. After the man responded in kind, Kavanaugh threw a beer in his face, said Charles Ludington, a former Yale basketball player who¡¯s now a history professor at North Carolina State University. The act precipitated a brawl that drew in their other friend ¡ª Yale basketball star and future NBA player Chris Dudley ¡ª and eventually prompted a call to police.
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