Following Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, in which she accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the Supreme Court nominee gave a wildly emotional response.
John Oliver decided to break from his usual formula of tackling multiple stories on Last Week Tonight, instead spending the entirety of Sunday night’s episode (30 September) discussing Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing.
He added that Kavanaugh will likely be elected onto the Supreme Court but that “we should never forget how that happened or what he represents”.
Concluding the episode, Oliver said that the case was particularly scary because, by the end of the week, it seemed the committee “believe her, but they just don’t care.”