Director Doug Liman reignites the sexual misconduct allegations of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the by-the-book documentary ‘Justice.’

SteveRamosMedia
3 min readJan 21, 2023

The sexual misconduct allegations regarding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh return to the spotlight in director Doug Liman’s by-the-rules documentary ‘Justice.’

The sexual misconduct allegations regarding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh return to the spotlight in director Doug Liman’s Documentary ‘Justice.’ Photo courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival.

There’s one metric measuring the success of director Doug Liman’s political documentary Justice, a thorough investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. After watching approximately 87 minutes of the last-minute 2023 Sundance Film Festival addition, do you leave veteran director Doug Liman’s first documentary project more convinced of Kavanaugh’s guilt? If you’re like the many progressive-minded attendees and me at Sundance, the answer is a resounding ‘yes.’ If you support Kavanaugh’s conservative ideology, there are no ‘gotcha’ moments in the movie to embarrass your support. That’s the challenge with by-the-book, talking heads, face-the-camera documentaries like Justice. They’re enjoyable for the target audiences but need to make an impact outside of topic devotees.

Justice begins its story with Liman on camera speaking to Christine Blasey Ford, who testified in 2018 supporting her accusations of attempted rape by Kavanaugh in high school in the early 1980s…

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