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Nearly a year after reports first surfaced of extravagant spending on his office, Justice Allen Loughry got his day in court. The former chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals sat Wednesday at the defendant's table for the first day of testimony at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston.
Senior Political Analyst David Gergen discusses Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's move to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination before the FBI releases findings from its investigation, noting that several witnesses - including James Roche, Kavanaugh's former roommate at Yale - have not been contacted by the bureau.
But experts say that the investigation may be less conclusive than many members of the public think, in part because of the nature of the work that agents are doing. Unlike a typical criminal investigation, the investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh is more of a background check.
Just over two years ago, in his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump was not the least bit defensive, let alone embarrassed, by old tax returns submitted to New Jersey casino authorities that showed he had not paid any federal income taxes. " That makes me smart ," Trump said.
Rather than investigate Christine Blasey Ford's 36-year-old sexual assault allegation against him confidentially during August, as would have been normal for such cases, they leaked her story to the press to damage the nominee. They timed their ambush for maximum political effect, when the scheduled hearings were over.
Lawyers for two women who accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct say they fear the FBI is not conducting a thorough investigation, as Republican leaders steer toward a decisive vote on the nomination this week.
The White House has given the FBI clearance to interview anyone it wants to by Friday in its investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The new guidance, described to The Associated Press by a person familiar with it, was issued to the FBI over the weekend in response to Democratic and news media pushback that the scope of the probe was too narrow.
In this Sept. 4, 2018 photo, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, listens to Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. speak during a Senate Judiciary Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Eight years after its informant uncovered criminal wrongdoing inside Russia's nuclear industry, the FBI has identified 37 pages of documents that might reveal what agents told the Obama administration, then-Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Ex-Trump aide: If FBI can investigate Clinton emails in days, it can investigate Kavanaugh in a week Comey defends FBI's ability to investigate Kavanaugh Hirono: Democrats did not expect limited Kavanaugh investigation MORE Their excuses for the veil of nondisclosure range from protecting national security and law enforcement techniques to guarding the privacy of individual Americans and the ability of agencies to communicate with each other.
President Donald Trump said Monday he wants the FBI to do a "comprehensive" investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh. But he also said he stands by his Supreme Court nominee "all the way."
Donald John Trump Kavanaugh polling: FBI on the hot seat Kanye West criticizes 13th Amendment on Twitter Feinstein calls on White House, FBI to release scope of Kavanaugh investigation MORE and congressional Republicans are moving to defang a looming fight over the scope of the FBI's investigation into sexual assault allegations that have thrown Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination into limbo. The scope of the probe - which the White House and Senate Republicans agreed to after pressure from moderates - was threatening to become a flashpoint in the Supreme Court fight and the latest headache for Republicans, who have faced weeks of curveballs on a nominee they once believed was a lock for confirmation.
Decrying the "trauma" inflicted upon his Supreme Court nominee by allegations of sexual assault, President Donald Trump stressed on Monday an FBI investigation into the accusations should be thorough but swift. "We don't want to go on a witch hunt, do we?" Trump asked toward the end of a lengthy and free-wheeling press availability in the Rose Garden that revealed his frustrations at the drawn-out process.
President Trump said Monday he wants a "comprehensive" reinvestigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh so long as it is over within the one-week timetable as laid out in the Senate compromise reached Friday. Trump said it "wouldn't bother me" if FBI investigators talked with all three women who have leveled allegations about sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh - allegations that the federal appeals court judge has denied - or pursue whatever other avenues they deem appropriate.
Since that moment, questions have been raised -- primarily by Democrats -- about whether the White House is purposely keeping the scope of the investigation narrow so as to ensure nothing comes out that dooms Kavanaugh's chances at making it to the Supreme Court. For clarity about what the FBI will do during this planned one-week investigation -- and what we should expect to come of it -- I reached out to Josh Campbell , a former FBI agent who now works for CNN as part of our justice team.
President Trump told reporters that when he heard Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify last week, he "watched a man saying that he did have difficulty as a young man with drink." The New York Times reported that the White House had authorized the FBI to expand its investigation to allow agents to interview anyone of interest , a shift from earlier reports that limits were placed on the bureau's ability to investigate claims made by three woman - Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick.
President Trump calls for a 'comprehensive' FBI investigation of sexual misconduct claims against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh; insight from Berit Berger, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. President Trump has instructed White House Counsel Don McGahn to allow the FBI to speak with anyone the bureau deems appropriate in connection with the supplemental background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a source familiar with the probe told Fox News on Monday.
"I thought it was going to be an investigation, but instead it seems it's just an alibi for Republicans to vote for Kavanaugh." Former classmates of Brett Kavanaugh's have said the FBI probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against him is too restrictive.