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President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans on Wednesday took a hard line: full-speed ahead on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court despite an allegation of sexual assault decades ago.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he feels "terribly" for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee who could face off in a high-stakes hearing next week with a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. "I feel so badly that he's going through this," Trump said during a news conference at the White House.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday bitterly debated how to move forward on a high-stakes hearing Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the California professor, Christine Blasey Ford , accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault.
The most high-stakes Senate hearing of the year has been scheduled, but no one really wants to have it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that "we want to give the accuser," Christine Blasey Ford, "an opportunity to be heard."
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault when he was a high school student. Christine Blasey Ford, now a university professor, says Kavanaugh held her down and forcibly groped her .
"Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation," Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post . "Retaliation"! Au contraire, this will make your career.
While U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation has certainly been politically contentious, his confirmation by the Senate had seemed all but certain. With credible credentials, a Republican majority in the Senate and passable answers to charged questions on court precedent, Kavanaugh seemed set to become the next Justice.
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, has announced that the committee will hold a public hearing on Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were in high school in the 1980s. NPR's Scott Detrow is here to tell us an update about what's going on.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her while both were in high school is "completely false" and that he's willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any forum to "defend my integrity." "This is a completely false allegation.
True or false, a woman's accusation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school buckles what had been a smooth path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh denies it, but the accuser came back with an offer to testify publicly to Congress.
President Trump on Monday responded to allegations by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Kavanaugh "is somebody very special" who "never even had a little blemish on his record."
Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's US Supreme Court pick, has called a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago "completely false". A lawyer said the accuser is willing to publicly testify before a Senate panel that is scheduled to vote this week on his nomination.
An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee. Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford willing to testify before Senate committee, lawyer says An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee.
Soon-Yi Previn eviscerates 'vengeful and abusive' mother Mia Farrow as she breaks silence to defend 'pariah' husband Woody Allen against her claims he abused adopted daughter Dylan Key Republican senator threatens to vote NO on Kavanaugh: Jeff Flake calls for delay in confirming Trump's pick for Supreme Court until sex assault accuser is heard 'Woody Allen abused me when I was seven years old': Dylan and Ronan Farrow berate New York Magazine's 'hit job' as they rally round 'devoted mom' Mia Farrow after bombshell interview with adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn California woman's Bumble date-from-hell ditched her mid-dinner and left her with the $50 check before twisting the knife with a nasty text calling her 'fatty' Will you join the waiting list for this deodorant? Twelve thousand have in a new trend that's seen beauty essentials become as desirable as designer handbags 'I thought he ... (more)
Soon-Yi Previn eviscerates 'vengeful and abusive' mother Mia Farrow as she breaks silence to defend 'pariah' husband Woody Allen against her claims he abused adopted daughter Dylan Key Republican senator threatens to vote NO on Kavanaugh: Jeff Flake calls for delay in confirming Trump's pick for Supreme Court until sex assault accuser is heard 'Woody Allen abused me when I was seven years old': Dylan and Ronan Farrow berate New York Magazine's 'hit job' as they rally round 'devoted mom' Mia Farrow after bombshell interview with adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn California woman's Bumble date-from-hell ditched her mid-dinner and left her with the $50 check before twisting the knife with a nasty text calling her 'fatty' Will you join the waiting list for this deodorant? Twelve thousand have in a new trend that's seen beauty essentials become as desirable as designer handbags 'I thought he ... (more)
6, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the third day of his confirmatio... . FILE - In this Sept.
A woman who accused Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault has broken her silence, days after the allegations were first revealed. Christine Blasey Ford first detailed the allegations in a letter to senator Diane Feinstein, alleging that Kavanaugh had attempted to sexually assault her at a gathering of teenagers in 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. Feinstein revealed the existence of the letter during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing last week, but would not disclose its contents nor the name of its author, instead referring the letter to the FBI.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and a Republican on the closely divided panel said he's "not comfortable" voting on the nomination without first hearing from the accuser.
People will look back on this era in our history to see what was known about Donald Trump while Americans were deciding whether to choose him as president. Here's a running chronicle from James Fallows on the evidence available to voters as they make their choice, and of how Trump has broken the norms that applied to previous major-party candidates.
While standing behind federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, some Republican Senators said Sunday that they were open to the idea of hearing from Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during a party when they were teenagers in the 1980's. Sen. Lindsey Graham , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he "would gladly listen" to Ford, as some Democrats called for a Thursday vote of that panel on Kavanaugh's nomination to be delayed.