Posted on 09/20/2018 2:51:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) vowed Thursday that if Democrats take control of the House or Senate in November they would launch a probe into the FBI's handling of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Whitehouse said during an interview on CNN's "The Lead" that Democrats would “get to the bottom” of what happened between Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford at a high school party where Ford claims Kavanaugh assaulted her.
Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations after Ford came forward on Sunday, and both have indicated that they are willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee sometime next week.
“I think we’ll also be investigating why the FBI stood down its background investigation when it came up in this particular background,” Whitehouse said on CNN.
“It’s particularly preposterous in this case when you have an FBI background investigation, and this is part of this guy’s background, and they’ve suddenly decided they’re going to halt the background investigation? It makes no sense, and it is appalling practice from a victim-witness point of view,” he added.
Whitehouse on Thursday joined seven other Democratic senators, who have previously served as prosecutors, in calling for an FBI investigation into Ford’s allegations.
Democrats have pushed for the FBI to reopen its background check investigation into Kavanaugh, whom President Trump nominated in July to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Republicans, meanwhile, have said that Kavanaugh and Ford should come before the Judiciary Committee. Ford on Thursday opened the door to testifying next week under certain terms, though her lawyer has said she won't appear for a hearing on Monday as requested by the GOP.
“The Constitution assigns the Senate, and only the Senate, with the task of advising the president on his nominees and consenting if the circumstances merit,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in the letter to Democrats on the panel.
“The job of assessing and investigating a nominee’s qualifications in order to decide whether to consent to the nomination is ours, and ours alone.”
Democrats have noted that the FBI investigated Anita Hill’s allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.
“That decision was praised by Republican senators including Sen. Hatch, who called it the ‘right thing to do,’ and the FBI finished its work in three days,” Democrats wrote recently, referring to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), one of three Judiciary panel members who participated in Thomas’s confirmation hearings.
There's nothing democratic about the Democrat party.
Diane Feinswein is the one who withheld “evidence”.
John Pickering was primarily impeached for incoherence of the law, the same thing these dems are doing (Along with drunkenness too, lol).
He is just pandering in RI.
You either have 10 million or 10 bucks.
If they win Kavanaugh is DOA.
They’ve got their strategery all set up and they’re feeling their oats.
Hillary IS DEEP STATE.
The Nazi and commie ‘RATS might want to be careful here. If the FBI “flips” on their asses, they’re toast.
So will they ask Wray to resign? BFD.
POTUS will call Kallstrom out of retirement to replace him, and more lib heads will blow up.
Good point.
Let’s see how they claim that.
They stood down. The guy was investigated at least six times. Kallstrom said that when they do that, they go back to kindergarten. I don’t think he was kidding. (I don’t think he kids.)
Going back to abusing the People by misusing the FBI for personal vendettas.....
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