BREAKING NEWS: Trump's Supreme Court nominee hit with bombshell claim of drunken sex attack when he was 17 as woman says he held her down, covered her mouth and tried to force himself on her
Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to be confirmed by October 1 when the court begins its next term
But a top Judiciary Committee Democrat has a letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct while in high school
Top D.C. #MeToo attorney is believed to be representing the woman at the center of the allegations
The New Yorker reported that the woman wrote her congressman to say Kavanaugh had tried to force himself on her at a party when they were 17
The congresswoman shared it with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat onthe Senate Judiciary Committee
Feinstein reportedly got the letter over the summer but chose this week to move forward at an inopportune moment for Republicans
An FBI official says the Bureau won't open an investigation, but instead would hand the material to the White House
It's likely the woman's claims would legally be a dead issue because of statutes of limitations that prohibit most prosecutions of decades-old crimes
Judiciary Committee Republicans quickly released a glowing open letter from 65 women who knew Kavanaugh during his high school years and support him
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:55 EDT, 14 September 2018 | Updated: 12:04 EDT, 14 September 2018
A woman from Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's teenage past claims he and a high school classmate once held her down in a locked room while he covered her mouth and tried to force himself on her sexually.
The bombshell charge, which Kavanaugh flatly denied on Friday, followed 24 hours of speculation about what Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein vaguely called 'information' that she had handed to the FBI.
The alleged teenage party incident was described in a letter from the unnamed woman to Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, her California congresswoman. Eshoo passed it to Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the rancorous Senate Judiciary Committee that is weighing Kavanaugh's nomination.
In a statement, Kavanaugh told The New Yorker: 'I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.'
The classmate said of the allegation, 'I have no recollection of that.' The woman declined The New Yorker's interview request.
The specifics, however, are riveting. The woman claims in her letter that Kavanaugh and a classmate, both of whom had been drinking, turned up the volume of music in the room so her cries of protest couldn't be heard outside. In her telling of the story, she managed to escape the room.
She also says the memory of the incident drove her to seek psychological treatment.\
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