Rao ‘Cringes’ at Yale Writings on Rape, Says Views Changed (3)

Neomi Rao, nominated to take Brett Kavanaugh’s former appeals court seat and facing questions about her college-era writings on rape and gender rights, told a Senate committee that she “cringes” today at some of the language she used at the time and said her views have changed.

“I like to think I’ve matured as a thinker and a writer,” Rao said in answering questions about her days at Yale in the mid 1990s that were posed by Republicans and Democrats at her Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

Rao is the Trump administration’s chief regulatory official and was nominated to replace Kavanaugh ...