Democrat Representative Pushes for Impeachment of Justice Kavanaugh

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New York Post covers a rising story involving Justice Kavanaugh. He is being accused of sexually assaulting several women in his past. The details have been proven difficult to confirm in some cases, but it is a significant issue and should not be taken lightly. Whether true or not, the Democrats are taking this opportunity to stand up for those affected. Republicans have stood up for Kavanaugh in an attempt to save his name and his job.
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"A new sexual misconduct allegation has surfaced against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh."
"On Saturday, the New York Times, a leading target for Trump’s ire, published an essay adapted from a new book by two of its reporters, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly."
Ramirez’s claim surfaced during Kavanaugh’s stormy confirmation last year, though it did not attract as much attention as that of Dr Christine Blasey Ford, an academic who said Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a high school party.
The reporters also said they had “uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms Ramirez’s allegation”.
"The Times said senators and the FBI were notified about that claim but it was not investigated."
"An excerpt from Pogrebin and Kelly's book details an incident similar to the one described by Kavanaugh’s former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez. "
"Kavanaugh vehemently denied all allegations against him. "
"The opinion piece in The New York Times rehashed allegations that Deborah Ramirez made against Mr. Kavanaugh during the confirmation process — namely that he thrust his penis in her face at a party when they were both students at Yale University."
"Mr. Stier notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly."
" Due to the latest revelation in the New York Times, 2020 Democratic candidates are, again, calling both Kavanaugh’s prior testimony (and his rushed confirmation) into question."
"Kamala Harris is a member of the judiciary committee."
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First Published: 09/19/2019 02:46:47 am
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"Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly helped in covering Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings."
"Pogrebin and Kelly wrote that they spent 10 months investigating the allegations of sexual misconduct and assault at the center of the hearings, "
"Senate investigators concluded at the time that Ms. Ramirez’s account lacked corroboration."
"Pogrebin and Kelly said at least seven people 'heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge,' including Ms. Ramirez’s mother and two classmates who learned of it just days after the party."
"The two agents who interviewed Ms. Ramirez told her they found her 'credible,' the excerpt said."
"The excerpt from the book cites two unnamed officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier, who has declined to discuss the episode publicly. "
"The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and that friends say she does not recall the incident."
"Justice Kavanaugh has declined to answer questions about the incident involving Stier, according to the excerpt."
"At the center of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing was the testimony of sexual misconduct allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who had attended a Washington-area high school near his."
"She testified that when they were teenagers, he pinned her to a bed, groped her and tried to remove her clothes while covering her mouth."
"Several of the Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination weighed in on the new allegations."
"Julián Castro was housing secretary under President Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders. He is now a senator from Vermont."
"Mr. Trump, who nominated Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, defended him on Twitter. "
The women's book said that of the people that they submitted, the bureau interviewed none of them.
"Harris echoed the call for impeachment on Twitter."
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"Republican leaders condemned the reports as irresponsible and defended him."
"President Trump on Twitter accused news outlets of trying to pressure the justice into taking more liberal positions and suggested, without elaborating, that the 'Justice Department should come to his rescue.' "
“ 'These newest revelations are disturbing,' Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wrote on Twitter about The Times essay."
"Warren also said, 'Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.' "
" 'He (Kavanaugh) was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice,' Harris wrote."
"Former Vice President Joe Biden called the revelations 'profoundly troubling' but stopped short of calling for Justice Kavanaugh’s impeachment."
"In a statement on Twitter, Biden called for an investigation into 'whether the Trump Administration and Senate Republicans pressured the F.B.I. to ignore evidence.' "
"Julián Castro also called for Kavanaugh's impeachment."
“He (Kavanaugh) is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY,” Trump wrote. “Such lies about him. They want to scare him into turning Liberal!”
"In another tweet, the president suggested that Justice Kavanaugh should 'start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.' "
"The Senate Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, said on Twitter that the 'far left’s willingness to seize on completely uncorroborated and unsubstantiated allegations during last year’s confirmation process was a dark and embarrassing chapter for the Senate.' "
"Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, wrote on Twitter that 'The New York Times should be ashamed of this smear on Justice Kavanaugh.' "
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"Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro also pushed for Kavanaugh’s impeachment this weekend,"
"A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. "
"Last fall, allegations of sexual misconduct threw Kavanaugh’s confirmation into doubt. "
"In the wake of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, talk of impeachment had already been floated both because of his testimony on sexual misconduct as well as comments he made about his work in the Bush administration, which some lawmakers saw as potential perjury. "
"Some 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are now once again launching calls for his impeachment."
"Amy Klobuchar also questioned Kavanaugh as part of the Judiciary Committee."
"Mr. Stier runs a nonprofit organization in Washington."
"We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier."
"When asked about the new allegation by Pogrebin and Kelly, Kavanaugh declined to comment."
" Republicans, meanwhile, are firmly sticking by his side."
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Harris said on Twitter, 'I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.'
Castro said on Twitter 'It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath. He should be impeached. And Congress should review the failure of the Department of Justice to properly investigate the matter.'

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Kavanaugh should be impeached just 'like the man who appointed him.' "
Warren said on Twitter 'Last year the Kavanaugh nomination was rammed through the Senate without a thorough examination of the allegations against him. Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing.'
"Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke said on Twitter, 'Yesterday, we learned of another accusation against Brett Kavanaugh—one we didn't find out about before he was confirmed because the Senate forced the F.B.I. to rush its investigation to save his nomination. We know he lied under oath. He should be impeached.' "
"And on an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sunday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar stopped short of suggesting impeachment but deemed his confirmation process a 'sham.' "
"Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Justice Brett Kavanaugh: 'I strongly opposed him, based on his views on executive power, which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today.' "
"Harris argued that Kavanaugh lied to lawmakers and the American people, and he should be removed from the bench as a result."
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Date Published: 09/15/2019 03:29:00 pm
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"Donald Trump came storming to the defence of Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday, after the publication of new allegations about the supreme court justice’s behaviour while he was a student at Yale led to renewed calls for his impeachment."
"In the extract from The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: an Investigation, Pogrebin and Kelly looked into the judge’s time at Yale in the 1980s."
"Pogrebin and Kelly wrote: 'While we found Dr Ford’s allegations credible during a 10-month investigation, Ms Ramirez’s story could be more fully corroborated.' "
"Pogrebin and Kelly’s book comes on the heels of another book by Times reporters, She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, about the investigation and downfall of Harvey Weinstein, which triggered the #MeToo movement."
"News of the new claim of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh and the investigation of the known one touched off a social media firestorm."
Calls for Kavanaugh’s impeachment have surfaced periodically.
Another candidate, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, was less direct.
"He was confirmed on a 50-48 vote, the narrowest for a supreme court pick in more than a century. "
"Trump duly fired back at the firestorm."
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"Kamala Harris and Julían Castro were among Democrats leading the charge. Both called for impeachment,"
"Bernie Sanders added his shoulder to the wheel, saying he supported 'any appropriate constitutional mechanism to hold [Kavanaugh] accountable'."
"Trump tweeted: 'The Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again.'"
"'Democrats and the media', he said, were 'talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment. He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY. Such lies about him. They want to scare him into turning Liberal!'"
"On Saturday, Julían Castro tweeted: 'It’s more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath. He should be impeached. And Congress should review the failure of the Department of Justice to properly investigate the matter.' "
"Kamala Harris, a California senator, and a top-five contender for the presidential nomination wrote: 'I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the US Senate and most importantly to the American people.' "
Harris said “He was put on the court through a sham process and his place on the court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.”
“I strongly oppose him,” Klobuchar told ABC’s This Week, “based on his views on the executive power which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today. My concern here is that the [confirmation] process was a sham.”
From the House, Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar said on Twitter: “Nothing terrifies this corrupt president more than the idea of Congress upholding the rule of law. We must open impeachment inquiries against Trump and Kavanaugh immediately. It’s our constitutional duty.”
Trump said “Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for liable [sic], or the justice department should come to his rescue. The lies being told about him are unbelievable. False accusations without recrimination. When does it stop? They are trying to influence his opinions. Can’t let that happen!”
"Harris saying Kavanaugh 'lied to the US Senate and most importantly to the American people'."
"Pogrebin and Kelly wrote ' During his Senate testimony, Mr Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been ‘the talk of campus’. Our reporting suggests that it was.'"
"As Trump’s second pick, he has tilted the court firmly to the right."
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Date Published: 09/15/2019 04:30:00 pm
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"Democratic leaders are working overtime to stop the party from walking the plank by calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh,"
"It is not the first time that Democrats in Washington have rushed to embrace the most sordid storyline to try to curry favor with prized slices of the electorate."
"In 2017, Democrats sacrificed one of their own, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, when he was accused of sexual mischief."
"Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday that the Kavanaugh impeachment push isn’t going anywhere on Capitol Hill."
"Mr. Leahy was among the Democrats who demanded Mr. Franken’s resignation."
"Although he said he doesn’t “equate” the Franken and Kavanaugh episodes, others see parts of them through a similar lens."
"Justice Kavanaugh survived grueling confirmation hearings last year after a series of decades-old allegations of sexual assaults further polarized Washington and the nation."
"None of the accusations have been proved true."
"Lawrence R. Jacobs is the director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,"
"Among the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas have called for Justice Kavanaugh to be impeached."
"Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat and House Judiciary Committee chairman, threw cold water on the idea by saying lawmakers are focused on their investigation into whether Mr. Trump should be impeached."
"Pressure continued to build Tuesday after Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, a member of the far-left 'Squad,' introduced a resolution calling on Mr. Nadler’s committee to investigate whether Justice Kavanaugh should be impeached."
"Ms. Harris also sent Mr. Nadler a letter urging him to open an investigation into the accusations laid out in the New York Times report and into 'how and why the FBI’s investigation was limited in scope.' "
"Republican leaders say the Ramirez accusations were thoroughly investigated."
"Republican leaders also say they didn’t know about a charge in The New York Times story about the future justice supposedly having his genitals shoved into a woman’s hands."
"The woman in question did not make that charge, and The New York Times later clarified in an “editor’s note” that she declined to be interviewed and didn’t remember the episode."
"The political saga raised questions about whether Ms. Harris and others talked too quickly about impeachment."
"In hindsight, though, Leahy said he wished he had let the Senate Select Committee on Ethics complete its investigation into the accusations. "
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"Democratic rank-and-file members and 2020 presidential contenders can’t resist the impulse to try to score political points."
" 'Everybody knows that’s not going to happen,' he told The Washington Times, adding that lawmakers would be better off focusing on whether Senate Republicans rammed through the confirmation without carrying out a proper investigation."
“Do you think for one second that [Senate Republicans] will allow an impeachment vote on this?” Leahy said.
"Lawrence R. Jacobs said the sort of sober reflection that came out of the Franken scandal has been missing among the 2020 presidential candidates and left-wing activists."
"Jacobs explained that those groups, insist that Justice Kavanaugh is a liar and that he should be impeached in the wake of a New York Times story that rehashed unproven allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court pick."
"'There was a learning, among some Democrats at least, that a rush to judgment on allegations of sexual harassment or abuse can lead to unfair treatment and maybe miscarried justice in terms of the penalty and whether it matches the crime,' Mr. Jacobs said."
"'I think the lessons that were learned by Democrats in the way Al Franken was treated are not appearing in the way that Kavanaugh is being treated,' Jacobs said."
“ 'Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people,' Ms. Harris tweeted Sunday."
"The Times reporters knew about these facts, which were left out of the original story."
"Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, said candidates would pay a political price for jumping onto the impeachment bandwagon.
'Let the elections play out, and you will see it live,' he said."
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Date Published: 09/17/2019 12:00:00 am
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