Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred Michael Avenatti to the Justice Department for a second criminal investigation after one of his clients claimed he “twisted her words” when providing a sworn statement on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday referred Julie Swetnick and her attorney Michael Avenatti to the Justice Department to be criminally investigated for making possible false statements during the confirmation process of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “When
Trump administration antitrust chief Makan Delrahim is moving the U.S. government back to an evidence-based approach to patents that will benefit consumers and lead to greater economic growth, rejecting the approach of the Obama administration.
President Donald Trump broke the all-time two-year record last week for appointing judges to the federal appeals court, and immediately nominated over a dozen more, while the Senate Judiciary Committee continued this Wednesday to advance still more nominations ahead of the midterm elections, and will hold another hearing next week.
NEW YORK — The already collapsed Trump Tower collusion conspiracy continued to further implode during an exclusive interview with Rob Goldstone, the English publicist who sent Donald Trump Jr. the infamous email claiming Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton that led to the June 9, 2016 meeting.
Hillary Clinton has relinquished her security clearance over her handling of sensitive information stored on a private email server.
The Senate’s moderates were the stars of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle. With the slender Republican majority — just one vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and two votes in the Senate overall — the moderates held unusual influence.
Leland Keyser, the “best friend” of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, told FBI investigators in recent days that Ford associate Monica McLean had pressured her to change her denial of the alleged assault, which had hurt Ford’s credibility.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seems to think the 1990s never ended. For the second time this year, he has called on the Democrats’ playbook from the Clinton era. And for the second time, he has failed, spectacularly.
The chief counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shut down TV Resistance lawyer Michael Avenatti on Tuesday, after Avenatti — who is representing Julie Swetnick — asked him to “please respond to our requests.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) signaled in an interview published Thursday that decades-old sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh will not play a major role in his vote on the judge’s Supreme Court confirmation.
A Wall Street Journal report states the White House, after reviewing FBI interview reports regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past, found “no corroboration of the allegations of sexual misconduct” against the judge.
“I dispute that it wasn’t anything other than the president stating facts, facts that were laid out in the prosecutor’s memo that she put forward in the Senate,” Sanders said to reporters at the White House during a press briefing.
The ongoing and increasingly angry protests opposing President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after Christine Blasey Ford accused the federal judge of sexual misconduct at a high school party in the early 1980s has caused heightened security at the U.S. Capitol and Senate and House office buildings.
The left-wing activists behind the anti-Trump Women’s March staged after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election are part of the effort to protest Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, where Kavanaugh serves as a federal judge.
A man who dated Brett Kavanaugh’s primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, for six years claims she had no fear of flying, no fear of small spaces or rooms with single exits, and once used her psychology training to prepare a friend for a polygraph examination, according to a Tuesday Fox News report.
A nomination expert said on Tuesday that ‘hundreds’ of people have been asked about Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking habits in six FBI investigations.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R) criticized Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, but said he is waiting to hear from the FBI before making a decision on whether to confirm him.
Leftists are trying to kick the Senate confirmation for a Supreme Court nominee down field and past the November elections. They have shown they will do so at any cost. While compelling emotionally, Ms. Ford has no witnesses and no facts to back up her story.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was told by passers by at Sunday’s West Virginia Pumpkin Festival in Milton, WV, to vote in favor of confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. He sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and has abstained from committing to vote one way or another, claiming to want more time to consider Kavanaugh’s nomination.
The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last Wednesday regarding a letter delivered to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in which an anonymous woman claims she was repeatedly raped by the judge without providing any details to investigate.
Actress Rosie O’Donnell doubled down on her social media harassment of Sen. Lindsey Graham, asking the senator if he had ever been raped in a tweet sent Monday.
The final Senate report from Rachel Mitchell, the sex crimes prosecutor who interviewed Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, questions Blasey Ford’s “struggle to recall important recent events” such as whether she took her polygraph test the same day as her grandmother’s funeral.
Rachel Mitchell, the sex crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford filed a report that points out numerous inconsistencies.
A Rasmussen poll released September 28 shows growth in voter support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, was sued in 2000 for making false accusations of sexual misconduct against co-workers, and for sexual misconduct of her own, though the case was dismissed.
“It has been standard procedure for decades to refer any new allegations made against a Supreme Court nominee to the FBI for review, and it would be completely unprecedented if an investigation was not undertaken in this instance,” Courtney wrote.
USA Today deleted a tweet promoting an article suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should “stay off basketball courts when kids are around” and not coach girls’ basketball because he was accused of sexual assault.
“No artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation,” said Debra Katz.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 Friday to recommend Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) making a last-minute stand that the final full-Senate vote be delayed for not more than one week.
“I’m going to let the Senate handle that,” Trump said told reporters at the White House. “They’ll make their decisions and they do a good job. Very professional.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accidentally called for “lower tax” before catching her misstatement by looking at her script. The slip occurred during her weekly Friday press conference in Washington, DC.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) revealed in a statement Friday that he will vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell told Republican senators in a conference meeting Thursday evening that she would not charge Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after hearing testimonies of the Judge or his accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
More than two years ago, the FBI threw an election, and the country, into turmoil. After all we have been through, the Democrats still want the FBI to make major political decisions.
Former President George W. Bush stands by his support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Freddy Ford, Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, told Politico Thursday evening.
“It’s nice to see a conservative man fight for his honor and his family,” Trump Jr. wrote.
The media bashed the “blind partisanship” and “confrontational” nature of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday as Brett Kavanaugh emotionally defended his name against a sexual assault allegation by Christine Blasey Ford.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh had a heated exchange with Sen. Dianne Feinstein at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing addressing sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh accused Democrats and the left at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of having created a dangerous precedent for the country in trying to defeat his nomination with last-minute, decades-old, uncorroborated sexual misconduct allegations.
