Mark Judge’s Name Keeps Coming Up. Here’s What We Know.

Weeks later, Dr. Blasey testified, she saw Mr. Judge working at a Safeway grocery store in Potomac, Md. In his memoir, Mr. Judge mentioned that he had worked for a few weeks at a supermarket in the summer before his senior year, helping people load groceries into their cars. He wrote that he often showed up at his early-morning shift hung over from the night before.

“I said ‘hello’ to him,” she said. “His face was white and very uncomfortable saying ‘hello’ back.”

She added, “He was just nervous and not really wanting to speak with me, and he looked a little bit ill.”

.. Mr. Judge has disputed this account through his lawyer. In an interview with The New York Times before Dr. Blasey’s name became public, Mr. Judge described high school parties he attended as being mostly small, taking place after football games in basements while parents were asleep upstairs.

“I never saw anything like that,” he said in the interview. “The way it was described is even bizarre, about turning up the music and all this other stuff. It’s no situation I recall ever being in.”

Mr. Judge suggested the allegations were driven by politics. “Any intelligent person knows what’s motivating it,” he said.

.. In their 1983 yearbook, a photo of football players in pads and uniform showed Mr. Judge and Mr. Kavanaugh grinning side by side. Mr. Judge’s yearbook page says he was a member of the club “100 KEGS or Bust” and includes the quotation, “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”

.. Some former classmates of the two men have said that aspects of Dr. Blasey’s recollections of Mr. Judge rang true.

The book describes a person named “Bart O’Kavanaugh” as having “puked in someone’s car the other night” and “passed out on his way back from a party.” A former classmate of Judge Kavanaugh’s said that the judge earned the nickname “Bart” after a Georgetown Prep teacher garbled his name.

.. Judge Kavanaugh about the “Bart O’Kavanaugh” passage. Mr. Kavanaugh said that the book was a “fictionalized” account and that only Mr. Judge could answer about his intention.

.. statement by Ms. Swetnick painted a similar portrait of the two young men as “attached to the hip” in high school and made allegations of parties where women were drugged and “gang raped.”

.. Under questioning Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh said that he and Mr. Judge became friends in ninth grade and that they shared the same group of friends. Mr. Judge was popular in school, Judge Kavanaugh said, and a talented writer.