I think the Ford issue is he said / she said was not provable either way at this time. The other IMO bigger issues are his conduct during the Bush era and the GOP deliberately withholding of emails from that, so they could not be considered by the Senate, his bad tempered temperament with an ill advised pop at the democrats where he must be bipartisan, allogations of his lying on the meanings of words in his diary during the Ford hearing and there are also unanswered questions over his finances. Many of the Democrat Senators said they accepted as the President & Senate are controlled by the GOP, they are going as their right to appoint a conservative Judge but he is not the right one. The American Bar Association made the very unusual decision of withdrawing their support and also one of their most senior retired judges reiterated that he was not a suitable candidate.
Although they are appointed for life. If any of the allogations are proven in the future he can always be impeached and prosecuted, but the US has a long history of white rich and establishment males getting away with their crimes without punishment. Stealing money off other rich and establishment white males is the most likely route to be punished.
At the moment US democracy is in a bad place and if it falls, then so will the rest of the Western world from a combined Chinese/Russian onslaught where they are both clomping at the bit to extend their dictatorships into any political/strength vacuums offered or created and Europe is too weak and divided to defend itself and Australia and New Zealand too small in economic, military and population strength terms.