Patty Murray: How Republicans handle Kavanaugh allegation a 'test' of #MeToo movement

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Patty Murray: How Republicans handle Kavanaugh allegation a 'test' of #MeToo movement
by Caitlin Yilek
 | September 23, 2018 11:46 AM

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., warned her Republican colleagues in the Senate that how they handle the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be a critical flashpoint in the #MeToo movement.

“How the Senate handles this, and the Senate Republicans handle this, will be a test of this time, of 2018 in the #MeToo movement, can we do better?” Murray told NBC's “Meet the Press.” “I fear we are failing that if we don’t do it correctly.”

The Democratic senator said Republicans have “predetermined the outcome” of the allegation by refusing an FBI investigation into the matter.

She cautioned there could be “tremendous backlash,” comparing the treatment of Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford to the Senate’s questioning of Anita Hill in 1991. Hill had accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarance Thomas of sexually harassing her before he was confirmed.

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What...they all scurried to the microphone, like the rats they are, to proclaim that they *believe* her without having heard Ford's testimony..