Dems call for delay of Kavanaugh vote after accuser comes forward

Donald Trump, Jr., son of President Donald Trump, posted an image to his Instagram account on Sunday appearing to mock the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Her name is Christine Blasey Ford, and according to the Washington Post, she’s a research psychologist and professor at Palo Alto University and has documentation to prove she’s spoken about the incident before. The letter described what she said was Kavanaugh’s sudden and brutal assault on her at a high school party in “the early 1980s”.

She said Mr Kavanaugh groped her over her clothes, grinded his body against hers and tried to take off her one-piece swimsuit and the outfit she wore over it.

“These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid”, Ford said about her identity becoming public.

Conway seized on reports that Feinstein was introduced to the allegations against Kavanaugh in July and sat on the information until last week, blaming Democrats for violating Blasey Ford’s “chain of trust”.

After her allegations surfaced over the past week, Ford opted to come forward publicly in an article The Washington Post published Sunday.

Because Trump’s fellow Republicans control a slim 51-49 majority in the Senate, Democrats can not stop Kavanaugh’s appointment unless some Republicans make a rare decision to break with their party and vote against Trump.

The White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Sunday.

After the GOP statement was released, Senate Democrats called for the committee vote on Kavanaugh to be postponed. She told other people about the alleged attack years before Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court nominee.

Asked by host Savannah Guthrie whether Ford considered it an attempted rape, she said she did.

Bruce said that Feinstein waited to reveal the letter until Democrats’ other efforts at stalling or preventing Kavanaugh’s confirmation failed.

In the article, she is described as a registered Democrat, and has made what were reported as small contributions to political organizations.

“Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation”, Ford told the Post. “She should not be ignored or insulted; she should be heard”.

The allegation puts heavy pressure on moderate senators who must decide whether to vote for Kavanaugh at the risk of angering the #MeToo movement.

The Supreme Court nominee issued a statement Monday vociferously denying the allegation.

The committee is due to vote on Thursday on whether his nomination should go forward to a full vote in the Senate. She said she went home and didn’t tell anyone until she and her husband were in couples therapy in 2012.

“Her recollection of these events is crystal clear”, Ford’s attorney Lisa Banks told Morning Edition.

Back in 1991, I covered the second set of hearings that Hill’s allegations belatedly triggered for the Wall Street Journal and later wrote a best-selling book about the controversy, Strange Justice, with Mayer.

Specifically, the countdown clock until Election Day in November, when Republicans’ majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate could be in peril.

This means it would take just Mr Flake to potentially derail Thursday’s committee vote, while only two Republican defections would swing the outcome away from Mr Kavanaugh in the Senate.

The right-wing protection racket surrounding supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is closing ranks, girding for war now that their man is facing sexual misconduct allegations from a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.