After a new report emerged which alleged sexual misconduct on the part of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, it appears that at least five presidential candidates from the Democratic party have called for Kavanaugh’s impeachment from the highest court in the land. The report focuses on Kavanaugh’s college years, and claims that while at Yale University in Connecticut he exposed himself in front of a woman.
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According to a CBS News report, President Trump has thrown his full throated support behind Kavanaugh and said the Justice Department should “rescue” him.
Among the candidates calling for Kavanaugh’s impeachment were Senator Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julián Castro, Senator Cory Booker and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Kavanaugh has not responded to the latest report, but previously denied all accusations, according to a CBS News report.
“Last year the Kavanaugh nomination was rammed through the Senate without a thorough examination of the allegations against him,” Warren tweeted. “Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing. Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.”
In a statement obtained by CBS News, Joe Biden called for further investigation into Kavanaugh and “the truthfulness of his testimony to Senate.” “We need to get to the bottom of whether the Trump Administration and Senate Republicans pressured the FBI to ignore evidence or prevented them from following up on leads relating to Justice Kavanaugh’s background investigation,” the former vice president said.
He also applauded the women who have come forward with accusations against Kavanaugh, saying they “deserve to be treated with dignity and be listened to.”
CBS News reported that on Saturday, the New York Times published an essay adapted from a book excerpt that claimed one of Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates allegedly saw him with his pants down at a drunken dorm party, with friends pushing his penis into a female student’s hands, when Kavanaugh was a freshman. According to the essay, the classmate told this story to senators and the FBI, but the FBI did not investigate it.
During Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, another Yale classmate, Deborah Ramirez, said Kavanaugh pulled down his pants at another drunken dorm party and thrust his penis at her. She said she swatted it away, according to a CBS News report. The Times essay said it had found additional corroboration for Ramirez’s story, with seven people saying they heard about the incident long before Kavanaugh became a federal judge.
Buttigieg told CBS News late Sunday that “it’s appalling to learn that the GOP curtailed the FBI investigation” and that “[t]he American people deserve to know who was involved … and we must get answers fast as to why witnesses with key information were not interviewed.”
