09.25.2018 - By San Francisco Chronicle
One victim of the Brett Kavanaugh controversy is Joe Biden, whose possible 2020 presidential run may have gone up in smoke. Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president, and he developed a lot of goodwill in those years. But well before that, he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991. It was his worst moment as a senator, and now it’s haunting him.