New claims about Justice Kavanaugh could hurt Republicans in next year’s congressional races
LAST SEPTEMBER Americans watched transfixed as Christine Blasey Ford, an academic psychologist, told a televised hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court bench, had sexually assaulted her 36 years earlier. Her account seemed troublingly plausible—and the judge’s response intemperate and highly partisan.
Justice Kavanaugh is most unlikely to be removed. Impeachment requires the assent of two-thirds of senators and the Senate is controlled by the Republicans. And the Democratic leadership doesn’t have the stomach for that fight. On September 16th Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, suggested his panel was too busy considering impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump to give time to an investigation of Justice Kavanaugh.
This may be a more promising line of attack. The investigation into Ms Blasey Ford’s allegation and one made by Deborah Ramirez—another Yale contemporary of Justice Kavanaugh’s, who claimed he had exposed himself to her at a party—took only a week to complete. Neither Ms Blasey Ford nor Justice Kavanaugh, who denied both allegations, were interviewed by the investigators.
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