As of Monday, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s chances of becoming the next Supreme Court justice seemed fairly unlikely. He had been accused of something he could neither prove nor disprove. The pressure for lawmakers to reject his nomination over allegations that as a teenager, he sexually assaulted a fellow high-schooler in the early 1980s was mounting.

Now key U.S. senators are urging Christine Blasey Ford, who claims Kavanaugh tried to rape her when they were both in high school, to testify Monday before Congress. But thanks to the Democrats’ maneuvering, the senators calling for her to testify under oath are actually throwing a wrench into Democrats’ strategy to delay the confirmation vote until after the November midterm elections.