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Republicans should ask Brett Kavanaugh’s friend to testify, political ramifications be damned

By Becket Adams

Published September 26, 2018 11:22pm ET

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Republicans should ask Brett Kavanaugh’s friend to testify, political ramifications be damned — Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sept. 7, 2018. Kavanaugh yesterday steered clear of trouble in a marathon day before a Senate panel, refusing to say whether he would overturn the constitutional right to abortion or disqualify himself from any case directly involving Trump. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are in a tough spot.

They can decline to call Brett Kavanaugh’s high school friend to testify and demonstrate they’re not serious when they say they want a fair and thorough investigation of the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee. Or they can live up to the ideals they espouse and call for testimony from Mark Judge, who is a key witness in two of the three allegations.

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