Not one of the 11 Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who are all white men, questioned Dr. Blasey Ford directly, instead ceding all their time to Rachel Mitchell, an Arizona sex crimes prosecutor and a longtime registered Republican who Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called a “female assistant.” Mitchell was also scheduled to question Brett Kavanaugh on behalf of Republican senators but was quickly stopped from her line of questioning after she asked Brett Kavanaugh about details of gatherings he attended in the summer of 1982 when the alleged sexual assault occurred.