US senators are sparring over an FBI report into sexual misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. One copy of the report exists for all 100 senators to read. Democrats said it was incomplete and Republicans retorted it did not support the accusations. Judge Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all allegations against […]

After saying last week that her Senate testimony was “very credible,” the president on Tuesday night repeatedly ridiculed the woman who says she was attacked. SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeatedly mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court nominee Kavanau Brettgh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, despite having said […]

Sen. Bill Cassidy on Saturday accused Democrats of strategically attempting to delay the Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. Following Friday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, President Trump ordered the FBI to conduct a “supplemental” probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the nominee. “How many more charges can be brought out to smear this man?” Cassidy (R-La.) […]

WASHINGTON – Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Supreme Court hung in the balance on Friday after a jarring and raucous hearing into sexual misconduct allegations against him. The Senate Judiciary Committee, with 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, is set to meet at 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), giving its members little […]

A woman has testified that the man nominated for a vacant post on the US Supreme Court by Donald Trump carried out a sexual assault 36 years ago that “drastically” affected her life. Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh’s attack on her had left her “afraid and ashamed”. Mr Kavanaugh […]

When friendship is peddled as a means to a different end, it makes it hard for both sexes to build the intimacy that being friends requires. The events of the last year — the #MeToo movement and its exposure of rampant sexual harassment in the media and Hollywood, as well as accusations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughassaulted a fellow high school-aged girl more […]

President questioned Christine Blasey Ford’s credibility on Friday and said panel should ‘take the vote’ whether she testifies or not Donald Trump cast doubt on the woman who accused his supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, and on Friday blamed opponents for trying to “destroy” his nominee while chivvying for a vote. After days of restrained […]

“This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone,” Kavanaugh said in a statement. WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh again denied Monday that he sexually assaulted a woman when the two were in high school, and said he was willing […]