GOP pushes for ethics investigation into Kavanaugh ‘antics’ of Democrats

Published October 10, 2018 4:00am ET



Senate Republicans are pushing for the Ethics Committee to examine the tactics Democrats employed in their effort to keep Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh off the bench.

“I have a lot of questions and I certainly think we need to get to the bottom of some of the antics that were used,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Monday. Cornyn said the six-member, bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee or the 21-member Judiciary Committee could be employed to conduct the probe.

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