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I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to Department of Justice statistics, as of 2016 only 23 percent of rapes or sexual assaults were reported to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Mary Louise Kelly, Kirsten Leimroth, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508344/friend-of-christine-blasey-ford-says-she-struggled-months-before-she-came-forwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a close friend of Ford’s\u003c/a>, said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that things like this have happened to and they don’t talk about it. You’re embarrassed and ashamed and you don’t think people will believe you. So I don’t think someone will believe you … I don’t think it’s unusual at all that she didn’t tell anyone back them. 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In a letter to the committee, Ford’s lawyers said that she would be open to appearing before the panel, but that an appearance Monday “was not possible.” Ford’s lawyers and Democrats on the panel want the FBI to investigate the charges, a move Grassley and other Republicans have dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford does not want Kavanaugh in the room when she testifies, and her team does not want an outside questioner on the Republican side to be brought in, a source in Ford’s camp tells NPR’s Nina Totenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Grassley’s camp agreed to the demand that Kavanaugh not be in the committee room, but rejected her request to only allow senators to question the two witnesses, saying it was within committee rules to permit staff attorneys to conduct the questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley’s Friday night letter to Ford’s attorneys setting a deadline also rejected two key requests discussed in a conference call with committee staff from both parties on Thursday: to have Kavanaugh testify first and for the committee to subpoena other witnesses like Mark Judge. 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"content": "\u003cp>Politics aside, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-the-sexual-assault-accusation-against-kavanaugh-unfolded-in-one-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual assault allegation\u003c/a> against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has raised questions — and misconceptions — about adolescent development, the teenage brain and how we remember traumatic events.[contextly_sidebar id=\"oVwS9sAVwJuJIuPB30rT7TxJBIWVcbC9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One: “Boys will be boys,” or the idea that teenagers can’t help but follow their impulses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/16/what-kavanaugh-did-teen-irrelevant-so-whether-hes-nice/1328274002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In USA Today,\u003c/a> education professor Jonathan Zimmerman wrote that “Of course [Kavanaugh] was different then; he was a third of the age he is now. And teens do stupid, dangerous and destructive things.” Law journalist Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine \u003ca href=\"https://art19.com/shows/today-explained/episodes/29d28815-9a41-43af-9430-1d102f3f5920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a> that “we know the adolescent brain is still developing, and teenagers on average aren’t super good at impulse control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another centers around what Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were teenagers, remembered. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said Tuesday that “Human memory is notoriously unreliable, especially over time” and Vox’s Alvin Chang echoed “To be clear, Carlson’s point isn’t entirely off-base. Research shows that our \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/20/17109764/deepfake-ai-false-memory-psychology-mandela-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memory is pretty bad\u003c/a>, which is why most of us probably don’t remember a drunken night last month, much less 36 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These characterizations oversimplify how the teenage brain and memories work, particularly when it comes to sexual trauma, according to four neuroscientists and three criminologists who spoke with the PBS NewsHour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is tempting to write off sexual aggression as an unfortunate consequence of adolescent impulsivity, in reality, risky behaviors like sexual assault involve brain capabilities that are established before and after our teenage years. Moreover, the company we keep plays as big a role in sexual assault as impulses. And traumatic memories tend to last for the survivors, no matter the age they are when an incident occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what science tells us know about teenagers, sexual assault and remembering trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: Only certain kinds of people commit sexual assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: There’s really no typical profile for a sexual assaulter because so few cases are reported.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 750,000 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were raped and sexually assaulted in 2015 and 2016\u003c/a>, but only 37 percent of these cases were reported to the police, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey. This limits our understanding of who commits sexual assault and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike other types of criminal offenders, those who commit sexual offenses can be very varied,” said Elizabeth Jeglic, a clinical psychologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “We see people in the Catholic Church. We see doctors, we see lawyers but we also see people who have less education. It’s across the board, across socioeconomic status, across race and ethnicity.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"LN4oM3H9IgZZNB6Oa5vxQB6txCbEDXeZ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General patterns do emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Men commit \u003ca href=\"https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 to 95 percent\u003c/a> of sexual assaults.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ovc.ncjrs.gov/sartkit/about/about-sa-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most of the perpetrators are white \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The overwhelming majority of these cases involve men attacking women, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male-on-male and female-on-male sex crimes\u003c/a> are common, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Data also shows sexual assault disproportionately affects youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Younger persons are more likely to be both offenders and victims of crime, including rape and sexual assault,” said Janet L. Lauritsen, a criminology and criminal justice professor at University of Missouri – St. Louis. “Adolescents — ages 12 to 17 — have slightly higher [sexual victimization] rates than 18 to 34 year old. The risks are about eight to nine times greater for women under age 34 than for women ages 50 and above.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sexual offenses begin to spike right as men head to college. Once puberty begins around the age of 10, the rate of arrests for rape begins to steadily rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, 18.5 per 100,000 males aged 10 to 17 are arrested for rape, according to data provided to the PBS NewsHour by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. For college-aged men, this figure nearly doubles to 32.9 per 100,000, but arrests drop off as males reach their mid- to late-20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trends in sexual offenses parallel key stages in mental development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: The teenage brain is underdeveloped and reckless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Impulsivity is a tendency with adolescence, not an absolute. Young children and teenagers can make rational decisions and exhibit impulse control.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-control, regardless of age, involves a balance between rational decision-making and our desires for rewards like sex, food and emotional fulfillment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These exist in two separate parts of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primal part of the brain that handles emotions, impulses and aggression resides toward the back of our heads, near our ears. Our decision-making centers — for controlling impulses, planning and organization and judging consequences — live right behind the forehead in the frontal lobes, namely, the prefrontal cortex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How we balance the two depends on how our brains build their wiring. This happens as soon as we’re born and lasts through about age 30. When we’re born, our brains are messy. We have more neurons (nerve cells) than we need to survive and an overabundance of communication lines between those cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During childhood and adolescence, our minds constantly rewire — pruning and rebuilding connections — through a process called synaptic plasticity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the building blocks for synaptic plasticity are set at higher levels in the childhood and adolescent brain than they will be in adults,” said Frances Jensen, chair of neurology department at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062067869/the-teenage-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults\u003c/a>. “That’s why adolescents and children can learn things much more rapidly than adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our primal areas become fully wired before the ones made for rational thinking. That’s because some of the messages sent between neurons must travel long distances across paths coated in a fatty substance called myelin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process starts in the back of the brain, with the emotions; myelin development here wraps up by early adolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Mapping-brain-maturation-and-cognitive-development-Paus/45c4a3f12f1bdceb150875be7a8c66488310cd32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontal lobes lag behind\u003c/a>, which means the paths that carry decision-making skills don’t catch up until your late 20s. Some studies show the parts of the brain controlling emotionality, sexuality and risk-reward are turned on twice as much in teenagers compared to adults exposed to the same experience, Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, teenagers can be quick to react emotionally and to seek instant gratification — because those parts of their brains are operating at a faster speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why adolescents can become addicted to all manner of things — opioids, cannabis videogames,” Jensen said. “Addiction is just another form of plasticity, except with your reward circuit. They are more rapidly hardwiring themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tendency to overvalue rewards and emotions continues until the frontal lobes catch up, plug into the primal brain and suppress these reactions. Girls grow out of these habits about two years, on average, before boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, that’s why teenagers often get cast as unruly louts, whose actions are ruled by their impulsive choices. But that’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People often talk about adolescence as if we do not have the cognitive ability to decide what is right and wrong or to control our behaviors. This is not true. It’s too simplistic,” said Tomas Paus, director of the population neuroscience and developmental neuroimaging program at the Bloorview Research Institute in Toronto. “By the age of 12 or 13, our brains are pretty mature. There is no hardcore evidence that young people completely lack impulse control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: Sexual assault is driven largely by impulses.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Peer pressure serves as one of the most powerful determinants of sexual assault, said Walter DeKeseredy, a sociologist and the director of the Research Center on Violence at West Virginia University.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we find with college students is that those who are most likely to sexually assault women have friends who encourage that and friends who do it,” DeKeseredy said. “If men in these groups feel that they’re not getting as much sex as their friends, then they’re more likely to engage in sexual aggression so that they could live up to their peers’ expectations.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"UGfNM1LxoY5BttEBSH2MEuVdPGl56a1H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This concept becomes apparent when you consider how teenagers behave under peer pressure. Our brains are continually shaped — from childhood to adulthood — by our social enclave, Paus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral experiments show if a teenager is sitting alone in a room, they’re much less likely to take risks than if they are in the presence of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about being around your peers during adolescence that changes the way your brain works,” said Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University who led the work behind this discovery. Using brain scans, his team found the sway of peer pressure fades as people age into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern means the adolescent brain can decide between right and wrong. They can choose to suppress their impulses in the right context, Paus said. Teenage girls go through the same evolution of their primal brains, emotions and impulses as boys — but are far less likely to commit sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeKeseredy argued that sexual assault has more ties to power and control than impulsivity. Psychological tests show individuals with histories of rape tend to struggle with impulse control, but not everybody who commits rape has an impulse control problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeglic and Steinberg agreed, citing that a large number of rapes are premeditated. About 90 percent of sexually assaults involve people who already knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: Our memories are fickle, so we cannot trust ones from long ago.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Every time you recall a traumatic memory, its details get stronger.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our memories guide how we behave in the future. When we encounter a welcoming person or place, we build memories to lead us back there. In contrast, if something hurts us — like the first time we burn our hands on a stove — we remember to avoid it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traumatic experiences take normal memory formation to another level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any experience that threatens our survival is remembered and recorded very fast,” said Jacek Debiec, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who studies traumatic memories and how their stored in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans typically need repetition to learn and remember. But traumatic memories can form after a single, life-threatening event because, from an evolutionary perspective, your brain may have only one chance to capture it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, traumatic memories last our whole lives and are vivid — filled with details like sounds, scents and sights. Traumatic memories are reinforced by our brain’s fear center — the amygdala — as well as by stress hormones like cortisol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But memories aren’t static — in the short-term or in the long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate hours after we make a memory, it is unstable and vulnerable to editing. Once this window of opportunity passes, our memories become more lasting and persistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalling an event after days, months or years can also open the door to memory editing due to phenomena called reactivation and reconsolidation. Tucker Carlson and Alvin Chang hint at these processes in their commentaries — but leave out a crucial exception:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalling a traumatic memory typically strengthens it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our experiments, when the traumatic memories are activated, there is an associated arousal and higher levels of norepinephrine, which mediates arousal,” Debiec said. “Then these traumatic memories are strengthened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When editing does occur, it tends to only influence peripheral details — like what an attacker was wearing. Central aspects surrounding an event, namely ones with emotional significance — like the people involved and the mode attack — stay consistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to memory formation when a person is drunk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blasey Ford said she had one beer the night of incident but alleges that Kavanaugh and Judge were heavily intoxicated. (Kavanaugh has “categorically and unequivocally” denied the allegation of sexual assault altogether). Large amounts of alcohol can block memory formation, Debiec said, but if a person is able to remember details that accompany the event, then it’s likely the alcohol didn’t distort the original memory\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The traumatic memories are biologically privileged,” Debiec said. “Unlearning trauma takes much more time and effort, and it probably never could be fully complete.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This limits our understanding of who commits sexual assault and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike other types of criminal offenders, those who commit sexual offenses can be very varied,” said Elizabeth Jeglic, a clinical psychologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “We see people in the Catholic Church. We see doctors, we see lawyers but we also see people who have less education. It’s across the board, across socioeconomic status, across race and ethnicity.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General patterns do emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Men commit \u003ca href=\"https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 to 95 percent\u003c/a> of sexual assaults.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ovc.ncjrs.gov/sartkit/about/about-sa-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most of the perpetrators are white \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The overwhelming majority of these cases involve men attacking women, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male-on-male and female-on-male sex crimes\u003c/a> are common, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Data also shows sexual assault disproportionately affects youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Younger persons are more likely to be both offenders and victims of crime, including rape and sexual assault,” said Janet L. Lauritsen, a criminology and criminal justice professor at University of Missouri – St. Louis. “Adolescents — ages 12 to 17 — have slightly higher [sexual victimization] rates than 18 to 34 year old. The risks are about eight to nine times greater for women under age 34 than for women ages 50 and above.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sexual offenses begin to spike right as men head to college. Once puberty begins around the age of 10, the rate of arrests for rape begins to steadily rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, 18.5 per 100,000 males aged 10 to 17 are arrested for rape, according to data provided to the PBS NewsHour by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. For college-aged men, this figure nearly doubles to 32.9 per 100,000, but arrests drop off as males reach their mid- to late-20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trends in sexual offenses parallel key stages in mental development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: The teenage brain is underdeveloped and reckless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Impulsivity is a tendency with adolescence, not an absolute. Young children and teenagers can make rational decisions and exhibit impulse control.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-control, regardless of age, involves a balance between rational decision-making and our desires for rewards like sex, food and emotional fulfillment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These exist in two separate parts of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primal part of the brain that handles emotions, impulses and aggression resides toward the back of our heads, near our ears. Our decision-making centers — for controlling impulses, planning and organization and judging consequences — live right behind the forehead in the frontal lobes, namely, the prefrontal cortex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How we balance the two depends on how our brains build their wiring. This happens as soon as we’re born and lasts through about age 30. When we’re born, our brains are messy. We have more neurons (nerve cells) than we need to survive and an overabundance of communication lines between those cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During childhood and adolescence, our minds constantly rewire — pruning and rebuilding connections — through a process called synaptic plasticity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the building blocks for synaptic plasticity are set at higher levels in the childhood and adolescent brain than they will be in adults,” said Frances Jensen, chair of neurology department at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062067869/the-teenage-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults\u003c/a>. “That’s why adolescents and children can learn things much more rapidly than adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our primal areas become fully wired before the ones made for rational thinking. That’s because some of the messages sent between neurons must travel long distances across paths coated in a fatty substance called myelin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process starts in the back of the brain, with the emotions; myelin development here wraps up by early adolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Mapping-brain-maturation-and-cognitive-development-Paus/45c4a3f12f1bdceb150875be7a8c66488310cd32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontal lobes lag behind\u003c/a>, which means the paths that carry decision-making skills don’t catch up until your late 20s. Some studies show the parts of the brain controlling emotionality, sexuality and risk-reward are turned on twice as much in teenagers compared to adults exposed to the same experience, Jensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, teenagers can be quick to react emotionally and to seek instant gratification — because those parts of their brains are operating at a faster speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why adolescents can become addicted to all manner of things — opioids, cannabis videogames,” Jensen said. “Addiction is just another form of plasticity, except with your reward circuit. They are more rapidly hardwiring themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tendency to overvalue rewards and emotions continues until the frontal lobes catch up, plug into the primal brain and suppress these reactions. Girls grow out of these habits about two years, on average, before boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, that’s why teenagers often get cast as unruly louts, whose actions are ruled by their impulsive choices. But that’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People often talk about adolescence as if we do not have the cognitive ability to decide what is right and wrong or to control our behaviors. This is not true. It’s too simplistic,” said Tomas Paus, director of the population neuroscience and developmental neuroimaging program at the Bloorview Research Institute in Toronto. “By the age of 12 or 13, our brains are pretty mature. There is no hardcore evidence that young people completely lack impulse control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: Sexual assault is driven largely by impulses.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Peer pressure serves as one of the most powerful determinants of sexual assault, said Walter DeKeseredy, a sociologist and the director of the Research Center on Violence at West Virginia University.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we find with college students is that those who are most likely to sexually assault women have friends who encourage that and friends who do it,” DeKeseredy said. “If men in these groups feel that they’re not getting as much sex as their friends, then they’re more likely to engage in sexual aggression so that they could live up to their peers’ expectations.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This concept becomes apparent when you consider how teenagers behave under peer pressure. Our brains are continually shaped — from childhood to adulthood — by our social enclave, Paus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral experiments show if a teenager is sitting alone in a room, they’re much less likely to take risks than if they are in the presence of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about being around your peers during adolescence that changes the way your brain works,” said Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University who led the work behind this discovery. Using brain scans, his team found the sway of peer pressure fades as people age into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern means the adolescent brain can decide between right and wrong. They can choose to suppress their impulses in the right context, Paus said. Teenage girls go through the same evolution of their primal brains, emotions and impulses as boys — but are far less likely to commit sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeKeseredy argued that sexual assault has more ties to power and control than impulsivity. Psychological tests show individuals with histories of rape tend to struggle with impulse control, but not everybody who commits rape has an impulse control problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeglic and Steinberg agreed, citing that a large number of rapes are premeditated. About 90 percent of sexually assaults involve people who already knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Myth: Our memories are fickle, so we cannot trust ones from long ago.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact: Every time you recall a traumatic memory, its details get stronger.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our memories guide how we behave in the future. When we encounter a welcoming person or place, we build memories to lead us back there. In contrast, if something hurts us — like the first time we burn our hands on a stove — we remember to avoid it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traumatic experiences take normal memory formation to another level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any experience that threatens our survival is remembered and recorded very fast,” said Jacek Debiec, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who studies traumatic memories and how their stored in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans typically need repetition to learn and remember. But traumatic memories can form after a single, life-threatening event because, from an evolutionary perspective, your brain may have only one chance to capture it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, traumatic memories last our whole lives and are vivid — filled with details like sounds, scents and sights. Traumatic memories are reinforced by our brain’s fear center — the amygdala — as well as by stress hormones like cortisol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But memories aren’t static — in the short-term or in the long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate hours after we make a memory, it is unstable and vulnerable to editing. Once this window of opportunity passes, our memories become more lasting and persistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalling an event after days, months or years can also open the door to memory editing due to phenomena called reactivation and reconsolidation. Tucker Carlson and Alvin Chang hint at these processes in their commentaries — but leave out a crucial exception:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalling a traumatic memory typically strengthens it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our experiments, when the traumatic memories are activated, there is an associated arousal and higher levels of norepinephrine, which mediates arousal,” Debiec said. “Then these traumatic memories are strengthened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When editing does occur, it tends to only influence peripheral details — like what an attacker was wearing. Central aspects surrounding an event, namely ones with emotional significance — like the people involved and the mode attack — stay consistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to memory formation when a person is drunk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blasey Ford said she had one beer the night of incident but alleges that Kavanaugh and Judge were heavily intoxicated. 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"content": "\u003cp>PALO ALTO — Her studies first brought her West, but for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford, the move to California proved a way to leave behind what had gone wrong in her teenage years in the patrician suburbs of Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born into a well-off family in Montgomery County, Maryland, Ford has said she spent years working to recover from an assault as a teenage girl in that world of prep school parties — by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she would disclose years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before she decided to come forward, Ford, now 51, had built a new life for herself in Malibu, Honolulu and the Bay Area, embracing academia, surfing, cheering on the Stanford football team and taking in outdoor rock concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford settled in the Silicon Valley in the 1990s, when the first wave of the tech boom was transforming lives around her and startups were replacing peach orchards. She began working as a research psychologist and biostatistician at Stanford University, one of the most elite universities in the country. She later was hired as a professor in a consortium between Stanford and Palo Alto University. Soon, she married her husband in a nearby coastal town, and they bought a classic Eichler home in Palo Alto and had two sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is very friendly, outgoing and brilliant, and she is a great mother,\" said clinical psychologist Erin Heinemeyer, a mentee of Ford's who is also a friend. \"I know in general she supports women's rights, and she often stands up for students, and she had expressed concerns to me about other students who might be struggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months after anonymously contacting her elected officials, Ford went public on Sunday, telling The Washington Post that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a Maryland house party in the early 1980s and tried to take her clothes off. He put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream, she said, and she feared he might inadvertently kill her. She said she was around 15 at the time and he would have been about 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family members say she struggled with the decision to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She clearly has nothing to gain and much to lose by going public with her story,\" said Jim Gensheimer, a friend of Ford's. \"I know from things she has told me, including her need to have more than one exit door in her bedroom to prevent her from being trapped, that this event was serious enough to have a lasting impact on her life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think she felt morally compelled to come forward, which is very much in line with what I know of her. She analyzes the data and lets the data tell the story.'\u003ccite>Sarah Adler, Stanford clinical psychologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ford's mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and other members of her husband's family released a letter Wednesday asking that her \"private and difficult recollection be treated seriously and respectfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that Chrissy has acted bravely by voicing her experiences from the past, and we know how difficult this is for her,\" said the letter signed by 11 of Ford's in-laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the White House, Kavanaugh issued a statement saying he \"categorically and unequivocally\" denied the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can only say this: He is such an outstanding man. Very hard for me to imagine that anything happened,\" President Donald Trump said Wednesday. \"I think it's a very unfair thing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation has shaken up the battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation, and Republicans are calling for a public hearing with both the accuser and the accused testifying. But lawyers for Ford say that she wants an FBI investigation of her allegation before a Judiciary Committee hearing set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers said in a letter that Ford wants to cooperate with the panel. But they say that in the days since she went public with her allegation, she has been the target of \"vicious harassment and even death threats.\" Her family has relocated, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser's Request to Delay Hearing for FBI Investigation\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027754774kav_wide-73b84f0d39412e7aedf8f8f87c1f6bf1ba6c0cfe-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An FBI investigation \"should be the first step in addressing the allegations,\" the lawyers wrote Tuesday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh supporters have called Ford's credibility and motivations into question. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told NBC News that Ford is \"mixed up\" and called Kavanaugh \"honest\" and \"straightforward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former colleagues said that, as a biostatistician and psychologist, Ford was known for her scrupulous and meticulous professional conduct. She has published several books and more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her work often involves analyzing data gathered in medical studies ranging from investigations of new depression treatments to opioid addiction interventions and traumatic brain injury research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Adler, a former student of Ford's who is now a clinical psychologist at Stanford, co-organized a letter in support of her former professor that had been signed by more than 300 colleagues and former students by Tuesday afternoon. Another letter of support has been signed by more than 700 graduates of her private prep school, Holton-Arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she felt morally compelled to come forward, which is very much in line with what I know of her,\" said Adler. \"She analyzes the data and lets the data tell the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford values clear professional boundaries and isn't one to share personal struggles with coworkers, the former colleagues said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">Rep. Eshoo: Kavanaugh Accuser's Decision to Go Public a 'Tremendous Act of Courage'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-1027782116-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She never said a word about this,\" said Allan Reiss, a Stanford professor of psychiatry with whom she has written numerous scholarly publications. \"But the fact that I know her as a person of integrity and honesty, it doesn't surprise me that she came forward and that she has a personal sense of the importance of what she has to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in couples counseling with her husband in 2012 that she first described an encounter with Kavanaugh in her freshman year of high school, she would later disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Avery, a former student who is now a postdoctoral research fellow, said he and many others admire her intellect and her kindness on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has reviewed statistics for trials and research being presented to the federal government,\" Avery said. \"This all requires a great deal of integrity. Other statisticians review her work, and she reviews theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleagues and former students described her as competent and laid-back, someone who is sure of her own footing and who balances work and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee remains up in the air, Avery said he thinks Ford can handle the blazing national spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's obviously terrible to have to deal with but because her dedication to truth is more important than her personal difficulties, I think she can handle it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>PALO ALTO — Her studies first brought her West, but for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford, the move to California proved a way to leave behind what had gone wrong in her teenage years in the patrician suburbs of Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born into a well-off family in Montgomery County, Maryland, Ford has said she spent years working to recover from an assault as a teenage girl in that world of prep school parties — by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she would disclose years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before she decided to come forward, Ford, now 51, had built a new life for herself in Malibu, Honolulu and the Bay Area, embracing academia, surfing, cheering on the Stanford football team and taking in outdoor rock concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford settled in the Silicon Valley in the 1990s, when the first wave of the tech boom was transforming lives around her and startups were replacing peach orchards. She began working as a research psychologist and biostatistician at Stanford University, one of the most elite universities in the country. She later was hired as a professor in a consortium between Stanford and Palo Alto University. Soon, she married her husband in a nearby coastal town, and they bought a classic Eichler home in Palo Alto and had two sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is very friendly, outgoing and brilliant, and she is a great mother,\" said clinical psychologist Erin Heinemeyer, a mentee of Ford's who is also a friend. \"I know in general she supports women's rights, and she often stands up for students, and she had expressed concerns to me about other students who might be struggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She said she was around 15 at the time and he would have been about 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family members say she struggled with the decision to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She clearly has nothing to gain and much to lose by going public with her story,\" said Jim Gensheimer, a friend of Ford's. \"I know from things she has told me, including her need to have more than one exit door in her bedroom to prevent her from being trapped, that this event was serious enough to have a lasting impact on her life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think she felt morally compelled to come forward, which is very much in line with what I know of her. She analyzes the data and lets the data tell the story.'\u003ccite>Sarah Adler, Stanford clinical psychologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ford's mother-in-law, sisters-in-law and other members of her husband's family released a letter Wednesday asking that her \"private and difficult recollection be treated seriously and respectfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that Chrissy has acted bravely by voicing her experiences from the past, and we know how difficult this is for her,\" said the letter signed by 11 of Ford's in-laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the White House, Kavanaugh issued a statement saying he \"categorically and unequivocally\" denied the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can only say this: He is such an outstanding man. Very hard for me to imagine that anything happened,\" President Donald Trump said Wednesday. \"I think it's a very unfair thing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation has shaken up the battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation, and Republicans are calling for a public hearing with both the accuser and the accused testifying. But lawyers for Ford say that she wants an FBI investigation of her allegation before a Judiciary Committee hearing set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers said in a letter that Ford wants to cooperate with the panel. But they say that in the days since she went public with her allegation, she has been the target of \"vicious harassment and even death threats.\" Her family has relocated, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser's Request to Delay Hearing for FBI Investigation\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027754774kav_wide-73b84f0d39412e7aedf8f8f87c1f6bf1ba6c0cfe-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An FBI investigation \"should be the first step in addressing the allegations,\" the lawyers wrote Tuesday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh supporters have called Ford's credibility and motivations into question. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told NBC News that Ford is \"mixed up\" and called Kavanaugh \"honest\" and \"straightforward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former colleagues said that, as a biostatistician and psychologist, Ford was known for her scrupulous and meticulous professional conduct. She has published several books and more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her work often involves analyzing data gathered in medical studies ranging from investigations of new depression treatments to opioid addiction interventions and traumatic brain injury research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Adler, a former student of Ford's who is now a clinical psychologist at Stanford, co-organized a letter in support of her former professor that had been signed by more than 300 colleagues and former students by Tuesday afternoon. Another letter of support has been signed by more than 700 graduates of her private prep school, Holton-Arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she felt morally compelled to come forward, which is very much in line with what I know of her,\" said Adler. \"She analyzes the data and lets the data tell the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford values clear professional boundaries and isn't one to share personal struggles with coworkers, the former colleagues said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">Rep. Eshoo: Kavanaugh Accuser's Decision to Go Public a 'Tremendous Act of Courage'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-1027782116-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She never said a word about this,\" said Allan Reiss, a Stanford professor of psychiatry with whom she has written numerous scholarly publications. \"But the fact that I know her as a person of integrity and honesty, it doesn't surprise me that she came forward and that she has a personal sense of the importance of what she has to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in couples counseling with her husband in 2012 that she first described an encounter with Kavanaugh in her freshman year of high school, she would later disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Avery, a former student who is now a postdoctoral research fellow, said he and many others admire her intellect and her kindness on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has reviewed statistics for trials and research being presented to the federal government,\" Avery said. \"This all requires a great deal of integrity. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate Judiciary Committee will move forward with a hearing scheduled for Monday on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, despite a request for further investigation from his accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows the release of a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley from attorneys representing Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assaulting her more than three decades ago when they were teenagers. In the letter, Ford's attorneys said an FBI investigation should be \"the first step in addressing her allegations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys argue that an investigation is necessary so that \"the Committee is fully informed before conducting any hearing or making any decisions.\" Ford's attorneys also say that since she went public with her allegations, \"she has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats.\" They also complained that the committee scheduled Ford to \"testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen U.S. Senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley declined Tuesday night to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The invitation for Monday still stands,\" Grassley said in a statement. \"Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee, so there is no reason for any further delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's decision echoed the sentiment of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. \"The FBI does not do investigations like this. The responsibility falls to us,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1042216779043491840\">Hatch tweeted. \"\u003c/a>We should proceed as planned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And retiring Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., suggested that if Ford did not appear at Monday's hearing, Senate Republicans should proceed to move forward considering Kavanaugh's nomination. \" If we don't hear from both sides on Monday, let's vote,\" Corker posted on Twitter late Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Ford's attorneys and Grassley's response capped a day of uncertainty about the next step in the Kavanaugh confirmation process, which has spiraled into turmoil in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys stop short of saying Ford will refuse to appear before the committee, while objecting to the rushed timeline and comments from Republican senators who seemed to question her accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hearing was scheduled for six short days from today and would include interrogation by Senators who appear to have made up their minds that she is 'mistaken' and 'mixed up,' \" the letter reads. \"While no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, Dr. Ford wants to cooperate with the Committee and with law enforcement officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, issued statements supporting Ford's concerns about the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I strongly support Dr. Ford's call for an FBI investigation before a hearing is held,\" Schumer said. \"Dr. Ford's call for the FBI to investigate also demonstrates her confidence that when all the facts are examined by an impartial investigation, her account will be further corroborated and confirmed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, also weighed in to support Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should honor Dr. Blasey Ford's wishes and delay this hearing,\" Feinstein said in a statement. \"A proper investigation must be completed, witnesses interviewed, evidence reviewed and all sides spoken to. Only then should the chairman set a hearing date.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate Judiciary Committee would offer Ford the opportunity to testify in either an open public session or behind closed doors about her allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She could do it privately if she prefers, or publicly if she prefers,\" McConnell said, adding, \"Monday is her opportunity.\" He stressed that Kavanaugh is eager to provide his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic aides have privately floated the possibility of boycotting the hearing if Republicans choose to proceed without Ford present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's committee staff has already begun conducting preliminary interviews by phone with alleged witnesses related to the incident that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.a4d85614fef9\">Ford described to the Washington Post\u003c/a> as having happened in the early 1980s when she and Kavanaugh were teenagers living in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Aides plan follow-up sessions as needed to obtain additional information ahead of Monday's planned public hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford named Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh's, as a witness to the incident at the high school party, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/kavanaugh-classmate-named-in-letter-strongly-denies-allegations-of-misconduct\">Judge told the Weekly Standard\u003c/a> earlier this week he doesn't recall the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's office released a letter from Judge's attorney on Tuesday with a statement from him saying he has \"no memory\" of the incident. He also says, \"I have no more information to offer the Committee and I do not wish to speak publicly regarding the incidents described in Dr. Ford's letter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats have rejected the GOP process and are refusing to participate in any committee phone interviews. They are insisting that the hearing be delayed to further explore the allegations. They want additional witnesses beyond Kavanaugh and Ford to be added to the planned hearing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their primary demand is one that Ford asked for her in her letter Tuesday night — that the FBI conduct a full evaluation before any hearing is held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a proposal President Trump himself rejected earlier Tuesday prior to the release of the letter from Ford's attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not what they do,\" Trump said. \"They have done now, supposedly, six background checks as Judge Kavanaugh has gone beautifully up a ladder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday a spokesperson for the Justice Department indicated that the FBI does not get involved in matters unless a federal crime is alleged and that it had completed its work related to Kavanaugh's background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda, Trump said Tuesday he feels \"so badly\" that Kavanaugh is going through the ordeal of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel terribly for him, for his wife and for his beautiful young daughters,\" Trump said. \"I feel terribly for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington state Sen. Patty Murray, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters that an FBI investigation is necessary to ensure a full and impartial assessment of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scheduling a hearing for Monday, a week from when Dr. Ford made her accusations public, is a shameful attempt to jam this through without giving anyone the time they need to investigate and put together the questions that need to be asked,\" Murray said. \"This is a test for the United States Senate on how we handle accusations of sexual harassment and assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray and other Democrats are drawing a direct parallel between the claims against Kavanaugh and those raised in 1991 when Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. At the time an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively questioned Hill in televised hearings, cast doubt on her accusations and ultimately voted to move Thomas' nomination to the full Senate, which confirmed him to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident inspired a record number of women to run for federal office that cycle, including Murray, who was elected the following year. Murray told reporters that America — and women in particular — will be closely watching how Ford's case is handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Republicans attack Dr. Ford and this turns into anything like what we saw in 1991, women across the country are going to rise up and make their voice heard and Republicans will pay a very huge price,\" Murray said. \"I am here today to say, once again, women are watching, we are not going allow that to happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ford asked for an FBI investigation, McConnell and other leaders said they wanted to hear directly from Ford but were standing firm on their expectation that she appear before the committee on Monday, blaming Democrats for creating a disorderly examination of Kavanaugh's record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Next week Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath,\" McConnell said Tuesday. \"We should not have gotten to this point. That this process has played out with so little order and so little sensitivity lies solely at the feet of Senate Democrats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have accused Feinstein of concealing details of Ford's accusation for several months after it was sent to her office in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein referred the information to the FBI but did not discuss it until Ford went public over the weekend. She defended her decision to keep the letter private Tuesday, saying she was respecting Ford's own request for anonymity and following procedure for working with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we were trying to do was get an investigation,\" Feinstein said. \"We were going through all of that process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans are warning that the Judiciary Committee has to tread lightly and handle the accusations with respect, regardless of their timing. Retiring Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The invitation for Monday still stands,\" Grassley said in a statement. \"Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee, so there is no reason for any further delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's decision echoed the sentiment of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. \"The FBI does not do investigations like this. The responsibility falls to us,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1042216779043491840\">Hatch tweeted. \"\u003c/a>We should proceed as planned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And retiring Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., suggested that if Ford did not appear at Monday's hearing, Senate Republicans should proceed to move forward considering Kavanaugh's nomination. \" If we don't hear from both sides on Monday, let's vote,\" Corker posted on Twitter late Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Ford's attorneys and Grassley's response capped a day of uncertainty about the next step in the Kavanaugh confirmation process, which has spiraled into turmoil in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys stop short of saying Ford will refuse to appear before the committee, while objecting to the rushed timeline and comments from Republican senators who seemed to question her accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hearing was scheduled for six short days from today and would include interrogation by Senators who appear to have made up their minds that she is 'mistaken' and 'mixed up,' \" the letter reads. \"While no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, Dr. Ford wants to cooperate with the Committee and with law enforcement officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, issued statements supporting Ford's concerns about the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I strongly support Dr. Ford's call for an FBI investigation before a hearing is held,\" Schumer said. \"Dr. Ford's call for the FBI to investigate also demonstrates her confidence that when all the facts are examined by an impartial investigation, her account will be further corroborated and confirmed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, also weighed in to support Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should honor Dr. Blasey Ford's wishes and delay this hearing,\" Feinstein said in a statement. \"A proper investigation must be completed, witnesses interviewed, evidence reviewed and all sides spoken to. Only then should the chairman set a hearing date.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate Judiciary Committee would offer Ford the opportunity to testify in either an open public session or behind closed doors about her allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She could do it privately if she prefers, or publicly if she prefers,\" McConnell said, adding, \"Monday is her opportunity.\" He stressed that Kavanaugh is eager to provide his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic aides have privately floated the possibility of boycotting the hearing if Republicans choose to proceed without Ford present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's committee staff has already begun conducting preliminary interviews by phone with alleged witnesses related to the incident that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.a4d85614fef9\">Ford described to the Washington Post\u003c/a> as having happened in the early 1980s when she and Kavanaugh were teenagers living in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Aides plan follow-up sessions as needed to obtain additional information ahead of Monday's planned public hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford named Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh's, as a witness to the incident at the high school party, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/kavanaugh-classmate-named-in-letter-strongly-denies-allegations-of-misconduct\">Judge told the Weekly Standard\u003c/a> earlier this week he doesn't recall the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's office released a letter from Judge's attorney on Tuesday with a statement from him saying he has \"no memory\" of the incident. He also says, \"I have no more information to offer the Committee and I do not wish to speak publicly regarding the incidents described in Dr. Ford's letter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats have rejected the GOP process and are refusing to participate in any committee phone interviews. They are insisting that the hearing be delayed to further explore the allegations. They want additional witnesses beyond Kavanaugh and Ford to be added to the planned hearing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their primary demand is one that Ford asked for her in her letter Tuesday night — that the FBI conduct a full evaluation before any hearing is held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a proposal President Trump himself rejected earlier Tuesday prior to the release of the letter from Ford's attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not what they do,\" Trump said. \"They have done now, supposedly, six background checks as Judge Kavanaugh has gone beautifully up a ladder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday a spokesperson for the Justice Department indicated that the FBI does not get involved in matters unless a federal crime is alleged and that it had completed its work related to Kavanaugh's background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda, Trump said Tuesday he feels \"so badly\" that Kavanaugh is going through the ordeal of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel terribly for him, for his wife and for his beautiful young daughters,\" Trump said. \"I feel terribly for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington state Sen. Patty Murray, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters that an FBI investigation is necessary to ensure a full and impartial assessment of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scheduling a hearing for Monday, a week from when Dr. Ford made her accusations public, is a shameful attempt to jam this through without giving anyone the time they need to investigate and put together the questions that need to be asked,\" Murray said. \"This is a test for the United States Senate on how we handle accusations of sexual harassment and assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray and other Democrats are drawing a direct parallel between the claims against Kavanaugh and those raised in 1991 when Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. At the time an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively questioned Hill in televised hearings, cast doubt on her accusations and ultimately voted to move Thomas' nomination to the full Senate, which confirmed him to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident inspired a record number of women to run for federal office that cycle, including Murray, who was elected the following year. Murray told reporters that America — and women in particular — will be closely watching how Ford's case is handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Republicans attack Dr. Ford and this turns into anything like what we saw in 1991, women across the country are going to rise up and make their voice heard and Republicans will pay a very huge price,\" Murray said. \"I am here today to say, once again, women are watching, we are not going allow that to happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ford asked for an FBI investigation, McConnell and other leaders said they wanted to hear directly from Ford but were standing firm on their expectation that she appear before the committee on Monday, blaming Democrats for creating a disorderly examination of Kavanaugh's record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Next week Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath,\" McConnell said Tuesday. \"We should not have gotten to this point. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:26 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault more than three decades ago, Christine Blasey Ford, will both testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, Sept. 24. The committee was supposed to vote on the nomination this Thursday, but faced pressure after Ford went public with her allegation over the weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford and Kavanaugh had both agreed to testify under oath before the committee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh looks forward to a hearing where he can clear his name of this false allegation. He stands ready to testify tomorrow if the Senate is ready to hear him,\" White House spokesman Raj Shah said in a statement on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Her recollection of these events is crystal clear,\" Ford's attorney Lisa Banks told \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648670994/sexual-assault-allegation-could-derail-kavanaugh-s-supreme-court-bid\">Morning Edition\u003c/a>. \"She will agree to participate in any proceedings that she's asked to participate in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was scheduled to speak by phone with Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday. Democrats on the panel refused to participate, arguing that the FBI should investigate the allegations stemming from an incident Ford says happened at a party in the early 1980s when they were both students in high school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault accusation, made privately in July, took on new weight over the weekend when Ford went on the record with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_kavanaughwoman-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.9ecb946a4dbf\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described a high school party in the early 1980s at which a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, attempted to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth as she tried to scream. She said she escaped after Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, jumped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh, who was at the White House on Monday, continues to vehemently denied Ford's account. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a completely false allegation,\" he said in a statement issued through the White House on Monday morning. \"I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had issued a similar statement on Friday, before the identity of his accuser was made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump defended his nominee, noting that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI on half a dozen occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh is one of the finest people that I've ever known\" Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. \"Never had even a little blemish on his record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump expressed regret that the allegation against Kavanaugh had surfaced so late in the process, but said he wants the Senate to satisfy any lingering questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. It shouldn't certainly be very much,\" Trump said. \"I'd like everybody to be very happy. Most importantly I want the American people to be happy, because they're getting somebody that is great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president stood behind his nominee, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also took pains to display concern for Kavanaugh's accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored,\" Conway \u003ca href=\"http://video.foxnews.com/v/5835806063001/#sp=show-clips\">told Fox News\u003c/a>. \"This woman will be heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Judiciary committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday that Ford \"deserves to be heard,\" but complained that Democrats failed to share information about the allegations when Ford sent a letter to the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">Rep. Eshoo: Kavanaugh Accuser's Decision to Go Public a 'Tremendous Act of Courage'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-1027782116-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether phone interviews would be sufficient to address questions of some of Grassley's GOP colleagues. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1041719261142679553\">tweeted Monday\u003c/a> that Kavanaugh and Ford \"should both testify under oath before the Judiciary Committee.\" As one of only a handful of GOP women in the Senate and a key undecided vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, Collins' views may carry outsized weight with Grassley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the judiciary committee, joined Democrats in saying the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination may have to be postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further,\" Flake told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-say-kavanaugh-letter-wont-hold-up-confirmation-process/2018/09/16/cbee4b4c-b9b9-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?utm_term=.b5694fa9f18f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Monday Feinstein pressed for a hearing before any committee action on the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Sen. Flake that we should delay this week's vote,\" Feinstein said. \"There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he was open to hearing from Ford, while resisting calls to delay the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Ms. Ford wishes to provide information to the committee, I would gladly listen to what she has to say and compare that against all other information we have received about Judge Kavanaugh,\" Graham said in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1041430520255721472\">a statement\u003c/a>. \"If the committee is to hear from Ms. Ford, it should be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who is not on the committee but is a key undecided vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1041532063806091264\">told CNN\u003c/a> a delay may be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is real substance to this, it demands a response,\" Murkowski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, who hold a narrow majority on the committee and in the Senate, are eager to confirm Kavanaugh in time for him to join the high court when it begins its fall term in two weeks. But faced with a growing Me Too movement, they are also sensitive about appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To railroad a vote now would be an insult to the women of America and the integrity of the Supreme Court,\" said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders complained that the allegation was made public just days before the committee was set to vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, committee Republicans have only known this person's identity from news reports for less than 24 hours and known about her allegations for less than a week,\" Grassley said. \"Senator Feinstein, on the other hand, has had this information for many weeks and deprived her colleagues of the information necessary to do their jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford initially contacted both Feinstein and \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> in July, but at the time, she was not willing to make her allegation publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Victims of sexual assault have the right to decide whether and when to come forward,\" Banks said about her client. \"It was something that she struggled with mightily. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was scheduled to speak by phone with Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday. Democrats on the panel refused to participate, arguing that the FBI should investigate the allegations stemming from an incident Ford says happened at a party in the early 1980s when they were both students in high school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault accusation, made privately in July, took on new weight over the weekend when Ford went on the record with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_kavanaughwoman-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.9ecb946a4dbf\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described a high school party in the early 1980s at which a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, attempted to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth as she tried to scream. She said she escaped after Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, jumped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh, who was at the White House on Monday, continues to vehemently denied Ford's account. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a completely false allegation,\" he said in a statement issued through the White House on Monday morning. \"I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had issued a similar statement on Friday, before the identity of his accuser was made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump defended his nominee, noting that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI on half a dozen occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh is one of the finest people that I've ever known\" Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. \"Never had even a little blemish on his record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump expressed regret that the allegation against Kavanaugh had surfaced so late in the process, but said he wants the Senate to satisfy any lingering questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. It shouldn't certainly be very much,\" Trump said. \"I'd like everybody to be very happy. Most importantly I want the American people to be happy, because they're getting somebody that is great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president stood behind his nominee, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also took pains to display concern for Kavanaugh's accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored,\" Conway \u003ca href=\"http://video.foxnews.com/v/5835806063001/#sp=show-clips\">told Fox News\u003c/a>. \"This woman will be heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Judiciary committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday that Ford \"deserves to be heard,\" but complained that Democrats failed to share information about the allegations when Ford sent a letter to the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">Rep. Eshoo: Kavanaugh Accuser's Decision to Go Public a 'Tremendous Act of Courage'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-1027782116-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether phone interviews would be sufficient to address questions of some of Grassley's GOP colleagues. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1041719261142679553\">tweeted Monday\u003c/a> that Kavanaugh and Ford \"should both testify under oath before the Judiciary Committee.\" As one of only a handful of GOP women in the Senate and a key undecided vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, Collins' views may carry outsized weight with Grassley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the judiciary committee, joined Democrats in saying the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination may have to be postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further,\" Flake told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-say-kavanaugh-letter-wont-hold-up-confirmation-process/2018/09/16/cbee4b4c-b9b9-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?utm_term=.b5694fa9f18f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Monday Feinstein pressed for a hearing before any committee action on the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Sen. Flake that we should delay this week's vote,\" Feinstein said. \"There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:41 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was at risk of delay on Sunday as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee from both parties said allegations of sexual assault from 35 years ago may require additional review. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled for this week, but Democrats on the committee called for the delay shortly after \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.e7768ae28d64\">published a story\u003c/a> naming the woman who says that Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her when they were both teenagers. Democrats were joined by Sen. 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But the trauma eventually drove her to seek therapy. She brought the incident up at a couples therapy session in 2012, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time,\" said Kavanaugh in a statement issued by the White House last week when the allegations began to surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his words have not stemmed a wave of Democrats who are calling for his nomination to be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for delay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support Mrs. Ford's decision to share her story, and now that she has, it is in the hands of the FBI to conduct an investigation,\" the committee's top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said in a statement. \"This should happen before the Senate moves forward on this nominee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, after the contents of the letter were first reported, an FBI official said the agency had not opened a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on Sen. 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Graham \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1041430520255721472/photo/1\">in a statement\u003c/a>. \"If the committee is to hear from Ms. Ford it should be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Flake, who also serves on the committee, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/waposean/status/1041449153841254401?s=12\">told the Post\u003c/a> that a vote on Kavanaugh needed to wait until senators had the opportunity to hear from Ford. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more,\" Flake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reached out to Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — both key votes on Kavanaugh's nomination in the narrowly divided Senate — but neither responded with any comment on the allegations by Ford. Collins spoke with Kavanaugh for an hour by phone on Friday after the then-anonymous allegation surfaced, but her office declined to provide any details on their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Grassley spokesman said leaders on the Judiciary Committee \"routinely\" hold bipartisan staff calls with nominees when updates are made to their background files. \"Given the late addendum to the background file and revelations of Dr. Ford's identity, Chairman Grassley is actively working to set up such follow-up calls with Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford ahead of Thursday's scheduled vote,\" the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein said a call by committee staff would be unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Senator Flake that we should delay this week's vote. There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material. Staff calls aren't the appropriate way to handle this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Polygraph, therapist notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the judge's hearing, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4747547/sen-hirono-judge-kavanaugh-heated-exchange-sexual-harassment-judicial-branch\">asked Kavanaugh\u003c/a> if he had ever made unwanted sexual advances, or been verbally or physically since becoming a legal adult. Kavanaugh replied \"no\" to her questions. The allegations made against Kavanaugh would have taken place while he was still a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a lot of courage for Christine Blasey Ford to come forward to share her story of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh,\" Hirono said in a statement on Sunday. \"This development is yet another reason not to rush Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ford broke her silence, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1041343997665595392\"> said Sunday on Fox\u003c/a> that Kavanaugh's nomination process was an \"intergalactic freak show\" and that \"I don't know what our Democratic friends expect us to do\" about the sexual assault allegation because of its secrecy. He predicted that every Republican would vote for Kavanaugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Post reported that Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist and professor, contacted the paper in early July — after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his intention to retire and Kavanaugh was shortlisted as his potential replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the advice of civil rights lawyer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28/633461843/les-moonves-and-cbs-s-culture-of-harassment\">Debra Katz\u003c/a>, who specializes in sexual harassment cases, she even took a polygraph test, which reportedly demonstrated that her allegations were accurate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought he might inadvertently kill me,\" Ford told the Post. \"He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she vowed to never speak of the incident, she said. But the trauma eventually drove her to seek therapy. She brought the incident up at a couples therapy session in 2012, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time,\" said Kavanaugh in a statement issued by the White House last week when the allegations began to surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his words have not stemmed a wave of Democrats who are calling for his nomination to be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for delay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support Mrs. Ford's decision to share her story, and now that she has, it is in the hands of the FBI to conduct an investigation,\" the committee's top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said in a statement. \"This should happen before the Senate moves forward on this nominee.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, after the contents of the letter were first reported, an FBI official said the agency had not opened a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on Sen. 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Graham \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1041430520255721472/photo/1\">in a statement\u003c/a>. \"If the committee is to hear from Ms. Ford it should be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Flake, who also serves on the committee, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/waposean/status/1041449153841254401?s=12\">told the Post\u003c/a> that a vote on Kavanaugh needed to wait until senators had the opportunity to hear from Ford. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more,\" Flake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reached out to Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — both key votes on Kavanaugh's nomination in the narrowly divided Senate — but neither responded with any comment on the allegations by Ford. Collins spoke with Kavanaugh for an hour by phone on Friday after the then-anonymous allegation surfaced, but her office declined to provide any details on their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Grassley spokesman said leaders on the Judiciary Committee \"routinely\" hold bipartisan staff calls with nominees when updates are made to their background files. \"Given the late addendum to the background file and revelations of Dr. Ford's identity, Chairman Grassley is actively working to set up such follow-up calls with Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford ahead of Thursday's scheduled vote,\" the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein said a call by committee staff would be unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Senator Flake that we should delay this week's vote. There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material. Staff calls aren't the appropriate way to handle this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Polygraph, therapist notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the judge's hearing, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4747547/sen-hirono-judge-kavanaugh-heated-exchange-sexual-harassment-judicial-branch\">asked Kavanaugh\u003c/a> if he had ever made unwanted sexual advances, or been verbally or physically since becoming a legal adult. Kavanaugh replied \"no\" to her questions. The allegations made against Kavanaugh would have taken place while he was still a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a lot of courage for Christine Blasey Ford to come forward to share her story of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh,\" Hirono said in a statement on Sunday. \"This development is yet another reason not to rush Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ford broke her silence, Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"515\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vGW0oEiLpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh weathered another long day of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was pressed once again for his views on presidential power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. They also complain that classification decisions were made by former President Bush's attorney, William Burck, a former deputy of Kavanaugh's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. 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Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834171-Kavanaugh-Confidential-Documents-Released-By\">Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., released some of the confidential documents\u003c/a> Thursday morning. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Hirono also released \"confidential\" documents, drawing a stern rebuke from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who called them \"irresponsible and outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is no different from the senator deciding to release classified information,\" Cornyn said Thursday morning. \"No senator deserves to sit on this committee, or serve in the Senate, in my view, if they decide to be a law unto themselves and willingly flout the rules of the Senate and the determination of confidentiality and classification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834231-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Hirono\">the documents released by Sen. Hirono here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834307-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Leahy\">the documents released by Sen. Leahy here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the theatrics on both sides, the debate over documents fizzled by Thursday afternoon, once it became clear their release had been authorized by Bush's attorney overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker's staff asked us to,\" Burck said in a statement. \"In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an aide to Grassley told NPR that \"counsels for the senators who requested waivers last night/this morning for particular documents were notified that their requests had been honored beginning at around 3:50 this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokesperson for Hirono said the senator was not informed that the documents released by her office Thursday morning had been approved to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear whether Booker knew the documents he released had already been approved before his statements Thursday morning at the beginning of the hearing — when he said that his decision to release the documents was a form of civil disobedience and that he was aware he was risking expulsion from the Senate for making the documents public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory said this morning that he was releasing committee confidential documents, and that's exactly what he's done,\" Booker spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said in an email to NPR. \"Last night, he was admonished by Republicans for breaking the rules when he read from committee confidential documents. Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. Others in the White House suggested racial profiling might be legally justified if it enhanced security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addressed a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had sidestepped questions from Booker on Wednesday night about the circumstances in which government can and cannot use race-conscious measures to address past discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that hopes he expressed nearly two decades ago for a color-blind society have not been fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see on an all-too-common basis that racism still exists in the United States of America,\" Kavanaugh said. \"Our long march to racial equality is not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times\u003c/a> reported on leaked emails from the \"confidential\" file. One is an email drafted by Kavanaugh in 2003, in which he questioned whether the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> decision legalizing abortion should be described as \"settled law of the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) engage in a debate with fellow members of the committee during the third day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690866\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1200x808.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1180x794.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) engage in a debate with fellow members of the committee during the third day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pressed on that email by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday, Kavanaugh explained he was simply summarizing views of legal scholars and not offering his own view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Kavanaugh said he understands the weight that many people attach to \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em>. But he declined to say whether that case was properly decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh has avoided commenting on Trump's behavior, despite urging from Senate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to get within three zip codes of a political controversy,\" he said Thursday, when Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked him about Trump's attacks on judges, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've spoken about my respect and appreciation for the eight justices on the Supreme Court,\" Kavanaugh said. \"I know they're all dedicated public servants who have given a great deal to this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring surprises, Kavanaugh appears likely to win confirmation in time to take his place alongside those eight justices when the Supreme Court begins its fall term next month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH+LIVE%3A+Democrats%2C+Republicans+Dispute+Status+Of+Released+Documents&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us some reassurance about your commitment to the democratic institutions in this country, in the face of a president who seems prepared to cast them aside,\" Durbin said. \"Whether it's voter suppression, the role of the media — case after case, we hear this president willing to walk away from the rule of law in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"I've made clear in my writings that a court order that requires a president to do something or prohibits a president from doing something under the Constitution or laws of the United States is the final word in our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. They also complain that classification decisions were made by former President Bush's attorney, William Burck, a former deputy of Kavanaugh's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. 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Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834171-Kavanaugh-Confidential-Documents-Released-By\">Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., released some of the confidential documents\u003c/a> Thursday morning. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Hirono also released \"confidential\" documents, drawing a stern rebuke from Sen. 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Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. Others in the White House suggested racial profiling might be legally justified if it enhanced security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addressed a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had sidestepped questions from Booker on Wednesday night about the circumstances in which government can and cannot use race-conscious measures to address past discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that hopes he expressed nearly two decades ago for a color-blind society have not been fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see on an all-too-common basis that racism still exists in the United States of America,\" Kavanaugh said. \"Our long march to racial equality is not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times\u003c/a> reported on leaked emails from the \"confidential\" file. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:21 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is presenting himself as an open-minded judge who is guided by the law but not indifferent to the effects of his decisions, during a marathon day of confirmation hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't live in a bubble,\" Kavanaugh told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. \"I base my decisions on the law, but I do so with an awareness of the facts and an awareness of the real-world consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee's ranking member, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pressed Kavanaugh on that, as she probed the judge's views on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/644105543/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-to-focus-on-6-hot-button-issues\">hot-button issues such as abortion and gun control\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he understands the importance that people attach to the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. Wade \u003c/em>decision legalizing abortion — a ruling that was reaffirmed two decades later in \u003cem>Planned Parenthood v. Casey\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an important precedent of the Supreme Court,\" Kavanaugh said. But he stopped short of saying whether he believes \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> was correctly decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was later asked about his dissenting opinion last year in a case involving a teenage immigrant who sought an abortion while in federal custody for crossing the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he would have allowed the Trump administration to require the young woman be placed with an \"immigration sponsor,\" though he added the administration could not use that as a ruse to block the abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consider the circumstances,\" he said. \"She's a 17-year-old, by herself in a foreign country in a facility where she's detained and she has no one to talk to and she's pregnant. Now that is a difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh also defended his dissenting opinion in a case involving a ban on semi-automatic rifles. He argued the ban should have been found unconstitutional, citing a decision by the late Justice Antonin Scalia that only \"unusual\" weapons can be outlawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Semi-automatic rifles are widely possessed in the United States. There are millions and millions and millions,\" Kavanaugh said. \"As a judge, my job was to follow the Second Amendment decision of the Supreme Court, whether I agreed with it or disagreed with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh stressed that as a native of the Washington, D.C., area, he is well-aware of the danger posed by gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, the violence in schools is something that we all detest and want to do something about,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., challenged Kavanaugh over a dissenting opinion in which he argued that slaughterhouse workers living in the country illegally were not entitled to form a union, despite the express language of the National Labor Relations Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You claim over and over again to be a textualist — to be carefully weighing every word of a statute,\" Durbin said. \"So why did you go out of your way to interpret the word 'employee' in a way that benefited this horrible business and disadvantaged these exploited workers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh insisted he was simply following Supreme Court precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no agenda in any direction,\" he said. \"I'm a judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh allowed that from time to time the Supreme Court reverses its own precedents. He pointed to once such reversal — \u003cem>Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em>, which ended the \"separate but equal\" doctrine — as \"the single greatest moment in Supreme Court history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18248513765908kavprotester_wide-8b86ce130be401935fd02eeec3d0f692b8b3b25f-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A protester disrupts the proceedings as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690571\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester disrupts the proceedings as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>( J. Scott Applewhite/AP )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the second day in a row, the hearing was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. But questioning quickly resumed as demonstrators were hustled out of the hearing room by U.S. Capitol Police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring a surprise, Senate Republicans have the votes to confirm Kavanaugh in time for him to take his place on the high court when it begins its fall term next month. Both supporters and opponents believe he would tilt the Supreme Court to the right, cementing a 5-4 conservative majority for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee's chairman, highlighted Kavanaugh's experience as an appeals court judge, then asked whether he would have any trouble ruling against the president who appointed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law in our constitutional system,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"Under our system of government, the executive branch is subject to the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh pointed approvingly to several examples of Supreme Court justices who ruled against the presidents who appointed them. He also highlighted his own decision as an appeals court judge, rejecting a military tribunal for terrorism suspect Salim Hamdan, even though it was a \"signature prosecution\" of the George W. Bush administration in which Kavanaugh served before joining the federal bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll never have a nominee who's ruled for a more unpopular defendant,\" Kavanaugh said. \"You don't make decisions based on who people are or their policy preferences. You base decisions on the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh is also facing questions about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639653174/brett-kavanaugh-investigated-a-president-then-voiced-concerns-about-doing-just-t\">his thoughts on presidential power and immunity\u003c/a>. Although he worked on Kenneth Starr's investigation into President Bill Clinton, \u003ca href=\"http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf\">he later wrote\u003c/a> that a sitting president should not have to face the distraction of civil or criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What changed was Sept. 11,\" Kavanaugh said, explaining the evolution of his views. He stressed that his writing on presidential immunity was meant as a recommendation for lawmakers, not a preview of how he might rule as a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were ideas for Congress to consider,\" Kavanaugh said. \"They were not my constitutional views.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like previous nominees, Kavanaugh avoided answering questions that might come before the Supreme Court, including whether he would uphold a statute requiring insurance companies to provide coverage for pre-existing medical conditions and whether a president can offer a pardon in exchange for someone's silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also ducked questions about the president's tweets this week criticizing the prosecution of two GOP lawmakers, as well as his comments on the deadly white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy,\" Kavanaugh said. \"That would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent, whether we're politicians in robes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, grilled Kavanaugh over a legal brief he'd co-authored raising questions about whether native Hawaiians are entitled to protections similar to those granted Native Americans on the mainland. She suggested his reasoning might also affect the treatment of native tribes in Alaska. Kavanaugh noted that his argument was embraced by the Supreme Court on a 7-2 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the question of regulation, Kavanaugh expressed reservations about how much latitude government agencies should be given, saying administrations sometimes try to do through rule-making what they're unable to do through legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a skeptic of regulation at all,\" Kavanaugh said. \"I'm a skeptic of unauthorized regulation — of illegal regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh also described his experience tutoring boys from low-income families and working at a soup kitchen as helping to ground his work on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're a better judge if you're aware,\" he said. \"Judging is important, but I wanted to be more directly involved in the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've all been in courtrooms where the judge is acting a little too full of being a judge,\" Kavanaugh added. \"I try not to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>It took about a minute for the spirit of bipartisanship that permeated Sen. John McCain's funeral Saturday to evaporate into political bitterness as the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh got underway in Washington Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under seniority rules of the U.S. Senate, California Sen. Kamala Harris was expected to speak near the end of Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Instead, she was the \u003cem>first\u003c/em> Democrat to pierce the air of cordiality by interrupting committee chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) as he began the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman,” Harris said, at times speaking over Grassley. “I'd like to be recognized for a question before we proceed. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and fellow Democratic Sen. 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