A California man was arrested on Wednesday near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after allegedly making threats against the judge. The Daily Beast reported that Nicholas Roske, 26, told federal agents that he was targeting Kavanaugh due to his leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Roske allegedly had a Glock 17 handgun, a …
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country’s cultural, gender and political …
By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a dramatic flurry of last-minute negotiations, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh cleared a key procedural hurdle Friday, but his confirmation prospects were still deeply uncertain as Republicans agreed to ask for a new FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations. Under pressure …
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indelible. That’s the way Christine Blasey Ford described the details of what she says was a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on a summer evening three decades ago. Asked for the most vivid memory from that night, she did not name a physical violation. Rather, …
By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a day like few others in Senate history, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford quietly recounted her “100 percent” certainty Thursday that President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers — and then Brett Kavanaugh defiantly …
PLUS: Woman accuses supreme Court nominee of sex attack
On Thursday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and address multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which he has denied. One of his three accusers, Christine Blasey Ford, will also testify. The psychology professor has alleged that Kavanaugh groped her and attempted to remove her clothes when they were in high school …
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A California woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were in high school has come forward, alleging in an interview that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a Maryland house party and clumsily tried to remove her clothing. Christine Blasey …
