WATCH LIVE: After Ford, Kavanaugh Testifies About Sexual Assault Allegation

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her in high school, Christine Blasey Ford, are testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The stakes couldn't be higher; a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court may rest on whose account senators believe.

Since Ford's accusation first came to light, two other women have come forward to accuse Kavanaugh of improper sexual conduct. And while the hearing will focus on events that allegedly occurred in the 1980s, it will be viewed through the prism of America in 2018, and the deep fault lines over gender, politics and culture in the era of Donald Trump and #MeToo.

Watch the proceeding live:

With reporting by NPR's Brian Naylor and Arnie Seipel