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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Tuesday, urged lawmakers to push ahead with Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation vote and slammed Democrats for attempting to delay and sully his nomination. Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women and is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Thursday along with his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
Supreme Court nominee is denying the sexual harassment allegations forcefully and his supporters are branding the new stories as purely political. Peter Doocy reports for 'Special Report.' Shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a forceful defense of embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on the Senate floor, top Judiciary Committee Republicans on Monday sounded notes of both exasperation and defiance in the face of what they have characterized as last-minute "smears."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will receive an up-or-down vote in the Senate "in the near future." McConnell on Monday angrily denounced Democrats, accusing them of waging a "smear campaign" against Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.
Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building - again facing questioners readying him for a high-stakes appearance in the Senate. This time, the questions were much different.
Washington a Sen. Orrin Hatch said the woman's story accusing the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct was "too contrived." He believed she was lying after being coaxed by liberal special interests to derail the confirmation and was yearning for the spotlight.
Experts say that because of how memory works, it's possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford - the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s - believe what they say. "Confidence is not a good guide to whether or not someone is telling the truth," said Nora Newcombe, a psychology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
As the Washington Post and others have reported, the accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, wrote a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as far back as July. Yet the ranking member sat on the information for weeks, perhaps because she doubted the credibility of an allegation more than three decades old.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her decades ago will testify publicly before the Senate next Monday, setting up a potentially dramatic and politically perilous hearing that could determine the fate of his nomination. Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., remained defiant as they scrambled to protect Kavanaugh's nomination in the wake of the allegation by Christine Blasey Ford, who told The Washington Post in an interview published Sunday that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back, groped her and put his hand over her mouth at a house party in the early 1980s.
Earlier today, Sen. Orrin Hatch spoke with CNN and Hatch revealed that he spoke to the embattled judge. According to CNN The Republican senator said Kavanaugh told him that his accuser may be mistaking him for someone else.
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."
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu - and if you have a seat but don't sit in it, you may be in just as much trouble. That's the lesson Google may have learned when legislators, dissatisfied with the company's offer to send its lawyer instead of a top executive to congressional hearings last week, theatrically answered by installing an empty chair instead.
A top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he won't let Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation be stalled by an "eleventh-hour" accusation of sexual misconduct. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Friday: "Every accuser deserves to be heard.
Anita Hill says the reluctance of someone to come forward publicly with an allegation against a Supreme Court nominee shows the need for the Senate to put in place a process for complaints to be heard. Hill, who is now a professor at Brandeis University, released a statement Friday after Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied an allegation of sexual misconduct from when he was in high school.
Sen. Orrin Hatch on Wednesday beat back Hillary Clinton's charge that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would undermine access to birth control because of his response on an Obamacare contraception mandate case during his confirmation hearing last week. "This didn't happen" the Utah Republican's office said on Twitter .
Sen. Orrin Hatch lit into Democrats again Thursday with some colorful language to describe their efforts to stop Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. "It's just amazing to me that they make such a farce out of this," Hatch, R-Utah, said at news conference with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
One of President Donald Trump's strongest supporters says he has repeatedly encouraged him to use Twitter for good rather than as a "cudgel for division." "I have likewise discouraged him from calling the press 'the enemy of the people.'
Voter turnout was up for this year's primary election over 2016, especially among Republicans, but it's going to be tough for that trend to continue through the November general election. "Generally, we don't see as high of a turnout during a midterm year as we would a presidential year so we don't get really caught up in trying to compare one to the other," state Elections Director Justin Lee said.