Trump Blasts Second Kavanaugh Accuser: 'She Admits She Was Drunk'
President Donald Trump also said he believes Democrats are masterminding "a con game" against his Supreme Court nominee.
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President Donald Trump also said he believes Democrats are masterminding "a con game" against his Supreme Court nominee.
The White House would be open to having Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to publicly accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Christine Blasey Ford sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley saying she feels a civic duty in coming forward with her allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,
Republicans thundered into an all-out campaign to save Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination Monday as a second woman accused him of a long-ago sexual assault.
When one person alleging sex assault faces the glare of the national spotlight, many more speak out in private.
Protests at the US Capitol on Monday led to some arrests as demonstrators gathered to oppose embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the high court.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford and the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached agreement for a public hearing Thursday, as talks continued Sunday to resolve potentially make-or-break details. The meeting has been set for 7 a.m. PDT Thursday.
Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, has accepted a Senate committee's request to tell her side next week but she wants to resume negotiations over the exact terms of her appearance.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted late Friday night that he'd "granted another extension" for Christine Blasey Ford to agree to terms for telling his panel about her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teens.
President Donald Trump challenged the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault by name Friday, saying that if the alleged attack was that "bad" then she would have filed charges.
Christine Blasey Ford opened the possibility she would testify before Congress about her accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has set Friday morning as the deadline for Christine Blasey Ford's legal team to respond to his request for her to speak to the committee regarding her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Nowhere is gender politics thicker in the election season air than in the mannerly U.S. Senate as it considers what President Donald Trump's choice for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, did or didn't do in high school.
Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford say that before she testifies on Capitol Hill next week she wants the FBI to investigate her allegation she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
A divided Senate panel narrowly backed Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch Monday afternoon.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been named ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Family members of a woman shot to death on San Francisco's waterfront earlier this month allegedly at the hands of a Mexican national with multiple deportations will speak at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
A Senate committee approved an assault weapons ban Thursday on a party-line vote that signaled how difficult it will be for the proposal to survive in the full Senate.
A handful of guns rights supporters gathered in front of California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's San Francisco office to protest her proposed assault weapons ban. Meanwhile she faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill to push her assault weapons ban through a senate judiciary committee.
Police departments around the country have not done enough to combat racial profiling in the last decade, East Palo Alto Police Chief Ronald Davis said Tuesday.
