24 September 2018

Late-Breaking Developments

The efforts by Senate Republicans to confirm Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh ran into two major potential roadblocks last night.

This comes on the heels of allegations that a teenage Kavanaugh attempted a sexual assault on a fifteen-year-old girl when he was in high school. The alleged victim of that purported incident will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

Yesterday evening, The New Yorker magazine broke the story (link here) that a second woman has now gone public with allegations about Kavanaugh during his college years, claiming that he "exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away."

Shortly thereafter, Los Angeles attorney Michael Avenatti -- who already represents a client suing Trump -- announced that he represented a third woman making allegations against the nominee. Avenatti claimed he had evidence (details here) that a younger Kavanaugh and friends targeted women with drugs and alcohol so that a "train" of men could gang rape them.

This is sure to be an explosive week with lots more developments on this story. Stay tuned.

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