Brett Kavanaugh started off shouting. He’d prepared a blistering defence of his character and a scathing rebuke of the “national disgrace” of his Supreme Court confirmation process.

A New York Times journalist offered a mea culpa of sorts to an author whom his reporting had implicated in the sexual assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

The man accused of showing up outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in 2022 intending to kill him told authorities he wanted to “make the world a better place” and had been ...