Senate Republicans said Wednesday they would push forward with their efforts to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and a White House spokesman said the administration was going “full steam ahead” to support him even as concerns persisted that a sexual-assault allegation against the nominee could stall or block his confirmation.
Spokesman Raj Shah said that the White House intends to “see what happens” at next week’s planned hearing before the Senate judiciary Committee and won’t look at naming any replacement nominee unless there is a clear need.
Republican leaders in the Senate continued to seek the testimony of the woman who has accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexual assault, which he has denied. Earlier, Republicans rejected calls from her attorneys and Democrats for an investigation of the allegations as a condition for her appearing on Capitol Hill at the hearing scheduled for Monday.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the hearing concerning the allegations would start at 10 a.m. Monday, and pressed Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser, California college professor Christine Blasey Ford, to testify. In a letter to her lawyers, he gave her a deadline of 10 a.m. Friday to submit her biography and prepared remarks if she planned to testify. There was no immediate response from her legal team.
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