Slate, CNN still not quite done with that ice-throwing incident involving Brett Kavanaugh

Brett T. | 5:15 PM on October 03, 2018

As Twitchy reported Monday night, the New York Times dropped a bombshell: back while he was a Yale undergraduate, Brett Kavanaugh was questioned by New Haven Police about having thrown ice at another bar patron. And as many noted, the woman whose name was on the byline had tweeted her opposition to Kavanaugh’s nomination the night before it was announced, so she wasn’t the most unbiased reporter for the gig.

Slate already picked up on the Times piece, publishing their own take Tuesday and punching up the headline a bit. Now it’s Wednesday, and Slate’s taking another trip to the well after CNN’s Jim Sciutto posted an update:

New: #Kavanaugh friend Chris Dudley was arrested in 1985 bar incident.
New Haven police have provided CNN with an unredacted copy of the police report which states “Mr. Dudley was transported to Union Ave detention facility by prisoner conveyance”

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 2, 2018

OK, so Chris Dudley was arrested after the incident. And that’s important why? Let Slate tell you: “One of the individuals who has been recently vouching for Brett Kavanaugh’s character in the press is Chris Dudley, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s who went on to play in the NBA.” Dudley has talked to the Washington Post about Kavanaugh’s drinking, insisting he never blacked out.

Friend who said Kavanaugh wasn’t aggressive when drunk was arrested in bar fight Kavanaugh allegedly started: https://t.co/0spAg1NmML pic.twitter.com/l4jWtdtCY0

— Slate (@Slate) October 3, 2018

So … Kavanaugh’s friend was arrested in a bar fight in college. And now that friend is acting as a character witness. Just asking: how is that relevant, compared to, say, the people Ford named as being present at the gathering where she alleges she was assaulted all denying knowledge of any such party?