After days of partisan bickering and new allegations of sexual misconduct from other women who knew Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh in high school and in college, Kavanaugh faces his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, Thursday at 10 a.m. in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Both Kavanaugh and Ford will share prepared remarks and answer questions during the hearing, led by a committee made up of 17 men and four women. It comes just a day before the group is expected to provide a vote on Kavanaugh, as scheduled by Chairman Chuck Grassley.
Ford, a California psychology professor, alleges that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a 1980s party in suburban Maryland when they both attended elite prep schools.
“With Kavanaugh’s hand over my mouth, I feared he may inadvertently kill me,” Ford wrote in a letter she sent to ranking committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein after President Donald Trump announced Kavanaugh as his nominee.
Absent from the hearing will Mark Judge, who Ford said was also in the room participating in the alleged assault, or other
