President Donald Trump urged those who voted for him — with the hope that he would nominate justices to the Supreme Court — to pay attention to Democrats’ treatment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The Supreme Court is one of the main reasons I got elected President. I hope Republican Voters, and others, are watching, and studying, the Democrats Playbook.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2018
Kavanaugh is currently facing a sexual assault allegation from his high school years by a California professor. The professor, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, alleges that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her a party in high school in a recent interview with The Washington Post.
Ford detailed to TheWP how she sent an anonymous letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein regarding the alleged encounter months earlier. Feinstein said she forwarded Ford’s letter to the FBI for review but never made the allegations public until stories began to surface around the letter itself after Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings ended.
Kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegation and Trump has expressed sympathy for his nominee. “I feel terribly for him,” he declared at a joint press conference Tuesday.
Kavanaugh’s fate remains undecided. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hold hearings and testimony from both Ford and Kavanaugh Monday, but an attorney for the accuser said she would not appear before Congress until an FBI investigation was completed.
The DOJ and Trump have both ruled out any FBI investigation.