Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her, had asked for an investigation before she testifies in front of the Senate.
Chairman of the United States’ Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassly on Tuesday rejected calls for an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, has accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her in the 1980s when both of them were in high school.
Ford had said that she wanted the FBI to investigate her allegation before she testifies in front of the Senate judiciary committee next week. “While Dr Ford’s life was being turned upside down, you and your staff scheduled a public hearing for her to testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen US Senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident,” her lawyers said in their letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
There is been an uncertainty over whether she will appear in front of the committee to testify.
Kavanaugh is a District of Columbia appeals court judge and served as an advisor to former President George W Bush. In order to be appointed to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh’s nomination must now be confirmed by the US Senate, which the Republican Party narrowly controls 51-49. A nominee needs a simple majority of 51 votes to be confirmed.
Democrats have called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone its vote until the allegations are investigated.