Judiciary Committee to charge ahead with vote on Kavanaugh nomination after sexual misconduct allegation
by Melissa Quinn
| September 14, 2018 02:18 PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee will not pause consideration of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, charging ahead with filling the high court vacancy after a decades-old sexual misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh was revealed Friday.
Judiciary Committee spokesman Taylor Foy said the committee will proceed with its vote Thursday on Kavanaugh’s nomination. The contentious battle over his confirmation has been roiled by the allegation detailed by an unidentified woman in a July letter sent to Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.
The letter has not been made public, and Foy said Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and his staff first became aware of its existence on Wednesday evening from news reports. They did not know of the allegation it contained, he said.
According to the New Yorker, the letter describes an incident that occurred in the early 1980s, when Kavanaugh was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland. The woman alleges in the letter that Kavanaugh held her down and tried to force himself on her when they were at a party.
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