New accusation is trouble for Kavanaugh

Democrats are demanding an immediate halt to Brett Kavanaugh's nomination process after his increasingly troubled hopes of reaching the Supreme Court were hit by a new allegation made over the weekend of sexual misconduct as a young man. Kavanaugh quickly denied the new accusation by a female former fellow student about an alleged incident when he was at Yale University in the early 1980s. This new allegation is being made by Deborah Ramirez, 53, who was at Yale with Kavanaugh and said she remembers him exposing himself to her at a dormitory party. He branded the story reported by The New Yorker as part of a smear campaign by Democrats, a charge echoed by the White House and that the alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The fresh trouble for Kavanaugh emerged hours after arrangements were finally locked in for a Senate hearing on Thursday at which his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, will allege that he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers in high school. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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