Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said he was not at the party where a woman says he held her down on a bed and tried to sexually assault her in the 1980s, and that his accuser has mistaken him for someone else.
Kavanaugh told Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that Christine Blasey Ford’s claim is a case of mistaken identity.
Ford, a professor of psychology who lives in California, on Sunday said Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault her at a party when the two were in high school at a home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
She cannot remember many details surrounding the event, such as the date or location, and did not talk about it until 2012.
“Senator Hatch spoke to Judge Kavanaugh earlier, and Judge Kavanaugh continued to categorically deny Dr. Ford’s allegations,” Hatch spokesman Matt Whitlock told the Washington Examiner. “He told Senator Hatch he was not at a party like the one she describes, and that Dr. Ford, who acknowledged to the Washington Post that she did not remember some key details of the incident may be mistaking him for someone else.”
Democrats are calling for a delay in the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to advance Kavanaugh, which is scheduled for Thursday.
