Washington sources reported that President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Meanwhile the democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and a Republican on the closely divided panel said he's "not comfortable" voting on the nomination without first hearing from the accuser.



Accordingly the woman, Christine Blasey Ford, told The Washington Post in her first interview that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a Maryland party they attended in the early 1980s, clumsily tried to remove her clothing and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. Hence Kavanaugh, 53 and a federal appeals judge in Washington, repeated an earlier denial of Ford's allegation.

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Kavanaugh said through the White House "He categorically and unequivocally denies this allegation as he did not do this back in high school or at any time". Moreover the allegation first came to light late last week in the form of a letter that has been in the possession of Sen Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, for some time. Further the committee recently concluded four days of public hearings on the nomination and the panel's Republican chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, scheduled to recommend that


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