More than 1,000 law professors have signed a letter calling on the Senate to reject Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. Spencer Platt/Getty The letter, which received hundreds of signatures from professors from nearly 100 schools within the span of 30 hours, "was a spontaneous reaction to the hearing," Harcourt said.
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Then, she says, a drunken Kavanaugh pushed her onto a bed, put his hand over her mouth, groped her, grinded against her and started pulling at her clothing. Ford says he was interrupted when Judge jumped on them both, at which point she was able to escape from the room.
A therapist’s notes. According to the Washington Post, a therapist’s notes from 2012 and 2013 show Ford at that time described a decades-old attack that matches her allegation against Kavanaugh. The notes include Ford’s description of an attacker from “an elitist” boys school who went on to be a “high-ranking” member of Washington society. (There is at least one discrepancy: the therapist wrote that Ford had spoken of an attack by “four” boys. Ford says that was a mistake by the therapist, and that she described four boys being at the party in general, but only two in the room.)
That classmate said he was “100 percent sure” that he was told at the time that Kavanaugh was the person who had exposed himself.
The new allegation has elicited calls from some Democratic presidential contenders for Kavanaugh’s impeachment and strong defenses of Kavanaugh from leading Republicans, including the man who appointed him to the high court, President Donald Trump. Some questions and answers about the situation:
Kavanaugh worked for independent counsel Kenneth Starr at the time.
Coons did not make the matter public at the time because Stier asked for confidentiality and because he assumed the FBI would investigate the claim, according to a person familiar with Coons’ thinking. The name is blacked out in AP’s copy, but the person confirmed that the letter mentioned Stier by name.
Kavanaugh declined to comment through the court’s press office, but in Senate testimony last year, he flatly denied other misconduct claims, including an allegation of sexual assault during his high school years made by Christine Blasey Ford and a separate episode at Yale involving college classmate Deborah Ramirez.
A. Not in this universe. There is no chance that the requisite two-thirds of the Republican-controlled Senate would currently vote to remove Kavanaugh from office, even if the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives were to impeach him. And it’s far from clear that there is any political will in the House to impeach Kavanaugh, given the time and attention it would demand, Democrats’ ongoing investigations of Trump and their lack of consensus about a formal impeachment process for the president. “Frankly we are concentrating our resources on determining whether to impeach the president,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Monday on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.”
The book says the FBI was made aware of but did not investigate the incident, purported to take place when Kavanaugh was a Yale University student in the 1980s.
The name is blacked out in AP’s copy, but the person confirmed that the letter mentioned Stier by name. Kavanaugh was confirmed Oct. 6. Ramirez’s lawyers provided the FBI the names of roughly 20 people, but few if any were ever interviewed.
California professor Christine Blasey Ford initially came forward anonymously in a July letter to the leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a high school party in 1982.
Brett Kavanaugh was hit with a third allegation of sexual misconduct dating back to his teenage years on Wednesday, further endangering his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh was once seen as a near certainty to become President Donald Trump's second justice confirmed to the highest court in the land, but Democrats have now called on him to withdraw, even as the White House publicly remains firmly in his corner.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, on September 6. Kavanaugh has since been accused of sexual ...
These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh."
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Deborah Ramirez. In a Sunday report by The New Yorker, Deborah Ramirez claimed that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her, thrust his penis in her face and caused her to touch it at a college party in 1983, when both were students at Yale University.
"Kavanaugh physically pushed me into a bedroom as I was headed for a bathroom up a short stairwell from the living room," Ford wrote. "They locked the door and played loud music, precluding any successful attempts to yell for help.