Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination looks to be in danger now that a woman has publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were at a high school party decades ago. She told other people about the alleged attack years before Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. So Kavanaugh’s nomination could be in trouble, even with a Republican Senate that badly wants to put him on the court quickly. To try to proceed as planned with voting on his nomination this week, Kavanaugh’s supporters are coalescing around a central talking point: why now? So will Kavanaugh’s nomination be in trouble now that Ford is speaking out?

Source: Washington Post September 17, 2018 10:04 UTC