Senate Judiciary Committee seeking interview with new Kavanaugh accuser

Senate Republicans Monday said new claims won’t stop the Judiciary Committee from proceeding with a planned hearing to air a decades old attempted sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and a vote on the nominee as early as Friday.

The GOP also will likely dodge the imagery of the Judiciary Committee’s all male panel interviewing accuser Christine Blasey Ford at Thursday’s hearing. They are likely to use an outside lawyer or a staff lawyer to question her about allegations he forced her onto a bed, covered her mouth, and attempted to sexually assault her at a high school party 36 years ago, Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters.