Brett Kavanaugh sexual harassment accusations: All you need to know

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Tuesday his staff has reached out to Christine Blasey Ford by email “three or four times” to map out plans for a public hearing next Monday without receiving a response.

But Chris Strohm of Bloomberg News, citing someone familiar with the matter, reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hadn’t said it didn’t want to be involved in evaluating the Ford accusations. When something smells. We all know this. This is never an acceptable argument when dealing with allegations of sexual assault of the sort Ford is making. That’s particularly true given the stakes here.

Kavanaugh is now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, widely viewed as the nation’s second-most-powerful court.

“I did not ask to be involved in this matter nor did anyone asked me to be involved”, Judge said in a written statement forwarded to the committee by his attorney, Barbara Van Gelder. “And then they will vote”, Trump added. “I think that’s going to [tick] off an bad lot of people, including women, who are more prone to vote in this day and age than men are”.

The court doesn’t have a choice but to take certain cases, such as challenges to congressional maps as partisan gerrymanders that are directly appealed to the high court, Kannon Shanmugam, who heads up the Supreme Court practice at Williams & Connolly, said during the Georgetown panel.

She said Kavanaugh, “stumbling drunk”, threw her down on a bed, grinding his body against hers and trying to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she was wearing over it. Ford said when she tried to scream, he put his hand over her mouth. “But now we’re learning new information about a sexual assault allegation”. Other Republicans are suggesting that Ford will have only this one opportunity to testify.

The WSJ editorial board views the timing of Ford’s accusations as clearly politically motivated and therefore, not worth paying serious attention to. Senator Dick Durbin said he had “a lot of questions” for Kavanaugh. Dianne Feinstein, and anonymously tipped off the Post, back in July. But the president says Kavanaugh’s nomination is “on track”. But that description of Katz sells the lawyer short. So do her therapist’s notes. She added, “One of the things I know is what happens to women in this situation and how hard it is, and I hope people will let her be”.

Republican leader John Cornyn of Texas noted that Ford has admitted she doesn’t remember some details of the incident.

If the Judiciary committee’s timetable slips further, it would become increasingly hard for Republicans to schedule a vote before the November 6 elections, in which congressional control will be at stake.

“After reports of the letter surfaced last week, Feinstein released a statement, saying she had received the letter”. Even this weekend she could have chosen to remain anonymous.

According to the Washington Post, Ford, who had also contacted the newspaper in July, chose to go public after it became clear people were learning her identity.

But the separate argument that the specific allegations themselves, involving high school students in a social setting, are too distant or trivial to have any bearing on Kavanaugh’s nomination, continues to get heavy play. GOP leaders had originally meant to hold the committee vote Thursday, and only pushed it back a week after several Senate Republicans insisted that Ford must be given a chance to speak.

“A lot more people believe the right thing is to believe a woman’s charges, especially when a woman is willing to go public”, says Jim Manley, former spokesman for retired Sen.

The Journal piece offers a barely veiled threat at Senate Republicans.