Allegations throw Kavanaugh confirmation into turmoil
The Hill
September 16, 2018
07:01 PM EDT
Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was plunged into chaos after a woman accusing him of sexual assault spoke publicly for the first time about the allegation on Sunday.
The fallout from the decades-old allegation is putting a spotlight on Senate Republicans who must decide if they want to rush forward with Kavanaugh's nomination with questions lingering over the Senate's debate and vote.
Republicans have been confident for months that Kavanaugh would be confirmed by October, when the court starts it's next term.
But they are under intense pressure to delay a vote after Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, told the Washington Post that in high school in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and forced himself on her.
Ford told the post that Kavanaugh "groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull of her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore under it."
Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.
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