Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans have rejected efforts by Deborah Ramirez’s representatives to present her sexual assault claim against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, her lawyer said. Committee leaders, rushing toward a scheduled Friday vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, have canceled scheduled phone calls and changed demands for allowing Ramirez to tell her story, attorney John Clune tweeted on Tuesday. “We reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee to schedule a call to discuss how best to bring them that information and they have refused to meet all scheduled appointments,” Clune wrote in the tweet. “So, feels like there’s a lot of game-playing that’s going on right now by the majority party,” said the lawyer. Ramirez might be willing to testify to the Judiciary Committee even if there isn’t an FBI probe, Clune said on NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday.

Source: Huffington Post September 26, 2018 11:48 UTC