those experiences hugely influenced her career and her activism; just a few months after the Kavanaugh hearings, Leckey testified at the Massachusetts Statehouse in June on behalf of theRoe Act Rashad and Pullam were both skewered in the media for defending Cosby. Rashad allegedly said "Forget those women,” then refuted it in a follow-up statement: "What I said is, 'This is not about the women. This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of a legacy.' I am a woman. I am a woman. I would never say such a thing." And Pullam said, "I wasn’t there. No one was there except for the two people who know exactly what happened. All I can speak to is the man that I know and I love." Now, after a nine-hour hearing Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with a Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination vote on Friday, the first of several votes on Kavanaugh's nomination that could wrap up by Tuesday, October 2. O’Rourke gave Cruz a serious run for his money thanks to hisactivist bentunconventional campaignanddebate dunksearning him high-profileendorsements from the likes of Beyoncé