Republicans intend to confirm Kavanaugh this weekend after the FBI report

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Republicans intend to confirm Kavanaugh this weekend after the FBI report







WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's Republican comrades gained confidence on Thursday that his US Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, would win confirmation from the Senate after two hesitant lawmakers responded positively to an FBI report. accusations of sexual misconduct against the judge. 

The report, sent by the White House to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night, was denounced by the Democrats as a cover-up that was too limited in scope and ignored the critical witnesses. Thousands of protesters against Kavanaugh gathered in front of the Supreme Court and entered a building of the Senate office, holding posters such as "Believe the survivors" and "Kava-Nope." 

But Republicans moved forward with plans for a key procedural vote on Friday and a final vote on Saturday to confirm the conservative federal appellate judge for a lifetime job in the US court. UU 

The comments of two key Republican senators, Jeff Flake and Susan Collins, indicated that the FBI report, which was the last turn in the political battle launched over Kavanaugh, may have dispelled his worries about Kavanaugh. Flake, a frequent critic of Trump, helped the president order the FBI investigation last Friday. 

Trump, himself accused by numerous women during the presidential race of sexual misconduct of 2016, wrote on Twitter that the FBI report showed that the accusations against Kavanaugh were "totally disembodied." 

Collins said the FBI investigation appeared to be exhaustive. Flake said he saw no additional information corroborating him against Kavanaugh, although he was still "reading". Another indecisive Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski, did not offer her opinion on the FBI report. 

Republicans control the Senate by a margin of 51-49. If all Democrats oppose Kavanaugh, Trump can not afford to lose the support of more than one Republican to his nominee, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tie-breaker vote. No Republican has said he will vote against Kavanaugh. 

While the comments of Flake and Collins were positive, none of them explicitly announced their support for Kavanaugh.     

A previously undecided Democratic senator, Heidi Heitkamp, ​​said she would vote against Kavanaugh, citing "concerns about her past conduct" and questions about her "temperament, honesty and fairness" after her angry and defiant testimony a week ago before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. 

Senator Joe Manchin, the only undecided Democrat left, said he would finish reading the report on Friday morning.  

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein noted that the FBI did not interview Kavanaugh himself or Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor in California who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 1982. 

"It seems like a cover-up," Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal told reporters, and said the report should not give Republicans political coverage to vote for Kavanaugh because "he's blatantly incomplete." 

Most Democrats opposed Trump's appointment of Kavanaugh from the start. If confirmed, it would deepen the conservative control of the court. The tough partisan battle turned into an intense political drama when Ford and two other women came forward to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in the 1980s when he was in high school and college. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations. 

Kavanaugh's struggle has captivated Americans weeks before the Nov. 6 election in which Democrats are trying to take control of Congress from Republicans.  

The nomination of Kavanaugh has become a critical point in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault. The battle for the nomination was reduced to a conflict "he said, she said" that requires senators to decide between the diametrically opposed accounts offered by Kavanaugh and Ford. 

On Tuesday, Trump made fun of Ford during a political rally in Mississippi. 

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS 

The report was not published to the public. The senators were allowed to read it behind closed doors in a safe place in the Capitol, without taking notes or making copies. 

A senior Republican adviser to the Senate said there was growing confidence that Collins, Flake and Manchin, all with decisive votes, would support Kavanaugh. If so, that might be enough for a Trump victory.  

White House spokesman Raj Shah said the Trump administration was "totally sure" that Kavanaugh had the necessary support. 

"I feel pretty good about where we are," said Sen. John Thune, a member of the Senate's Republican leadership. 









FILE PHOTO: Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding sexual assault allegations in the Dirksen Senate Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA. UU., September 27, 2018. Gabriella Demczuk / Pool through REUTERS / Stock Photo



Some protesters, many of them dressed in black, crowded into the building of the Hart Senate Office after meeting in front of the Supreme Court on a warm, warm autumn day. 

"I am sick and tired of seeing women's experiences not being given weight," protester Christine Zagrobelny, 29, a software engineer in New York City, told the Supreme Court. 

The Republican leaders sounded impassive. 

"When the noise fades, when the corroded mud is erased, what remains is the distinguished candidate who comes before us," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the floor of the Senate. 

The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, said after receiving a briefing for staff on the report: "There is nothing we do not know." 

"These unsubstantiated allegations have been unequivocally and repeatedly rejected by Judge Kavanaugh, and neither the Judiciary Committee nor the FBI were able to locate third parties who can attest any of the allegations," Grassley added. 

The White House spokesman, Shah, told CNN that the FBI approached 10 people and "interviewed in a comprehensive manner" nine of them. 

"The White House did not micromanage the FBI," he said. 

In a letter to the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, Ford's lawyers noted that the agency refused to interview Ford or any of the more than a dozen people they identified to provide relevant information, and called the investigation five. days as "a stain in the process, in the FBI." and in our American ideal of justice. " 

Ford testified last week in a dramatic Judiciary Committee hearing that when she was 15, Kavanaugh, a 17-year-old drunk, grabbed her, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth after she screamed. Kavanaugh denied the accusation and painted himself as the victim of a "political coup". 

Lawyers for Deborah Ramírez, who said that Kavanaugh was exposed to her when they were students at Yale University, wrote Wray a separate letter expressing her disappointment that FBI agents had not followed her interview by speaking with more than 20 witnesses. that he identified How to corroborate your account. 









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Report of Amanda Becker, David Morgan and Richard Cowan; Additional reports by Patricia Zengerle, Nathan Layne, Sarah N. Lynch, Lisa Lambert, Lawrence Hurley and David Alexander; Written by Will Dunham; Edited by Frances Kerry and Cynthia Osterman





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