Posted on 09/17/2018 8:18:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is calling on the FBI to investigate allegations of attempted sexual assault facing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, charges that have delayed his confirmation vote.
Schumer on Monday evening accused the White House of “intentionally” choosing “to bury its head in the sand and make weak excuses” for its pick.
“We need the FBI to step forward to ensure that the Senate and American public have complete information about this troubling alleged incident before a hearing is held,” he said in a statement.
Schumer issued his remarks shortly after the Justice Department announced that the allegation against Kavanaugh “does not involve any potential federal crime,” according to the Associated Press.
Department officials asserted Monday evening that the FBI’s role in conducting background checks is to assess whether potential nominees may pose risks to national security. They may have concluded a 36-year-old charge of attempted assault stemming from Kavanaugh’s high school years does not threaten national security.
Schumer explained that he is not asking for a criminal investigation but for a deeper probe since the earlier FBI review did not delve into claims by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh attempted to strip off her clothes while she was attending a party as a 15-year-old high school sophomore.
“The White House understands very well that we aren’t asking to open a criminal investigation, but to have the FBI re-open and complete the standard background investigation for someone who has been nominated for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,” he said in his statement.
A Democratic aide said the White House can urge the FBI to reopen its background check since Kavanaugh is one of its nominees.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold an additional day of hearings Monday to review Ford’s accusation and to give Kavanaugh a chance to refute her claims.
Hundreds of graduates from Ford’s high school, the Holton-Arms School, have signed a letter declaring they believe her story. The signatories include women who graduated in the early 1980s and could, according to Democrats and their allies, provide some corroborating evidence pertaining to Kavanaugh’s conduct three decades ago.
A group of 65 women who knew Kavanaugh when he attended high school from 1979 to 1983 wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that “for the entire time” they knew Kavanaugh, he “has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
The accuser is the only one who says it happened.
The two people she is accusing both say it didn’t.
There were no witnesses.
She didn’t tell anybody about it for twenty years.
35 years later...
Yeah, right. We’ll do that right after we take down the Easter Bunny for egg expropriation.
and it could take years ,LOL
Making the Federal courts illegitimate will invite anarchy and armed rebellion.
Hasn’t the FBI already invested his life and his relative’s lives and his associates’ lives? These allegations are from nigh on 40 years ago on an at most a non-event.
If anyone needs investigating, it’s Ford.
I am calling on the FBI to investigate the democRATs for sedition. I want death penalty charges and nothing less. Take it back on then with no holds barred.
Schumer’s such an obvious queer.
Here’s a headline idea for any writer who wants to use it.
“Stop Slut-shaming Brett Kavanaugh!”
When did hundreds come forth saying they believe her??? Did ANY of these people know Kavanaugh? This stinks to high heaven. If this dirty trick works for the Dems, the Republicans will never get another SCOTUS Justice!
Schumer would love that. Drag the FBI into this jugf*ck and half of Washington D.C. will be making “flip” deals with the corrupt Bobby Mueller.
It wouldn’t matter anyway. The FBI has NO JURISDICTION to investigate crimes that don’t cross state lines or involve RICO. This is another example of the left trying to use the FBI to create a permanent police state.
They already looked at it, and they dismissed it, Schumer, you Bozo Butt.
Jezzz .... what does Shmucky expect the FIB to do, stick a bigger proctoscope up ol’ Brett’s rear-end?
I think they should use it on Schummer ... maybe they will find his brain ....
Chuckles Schumer is a moron grasping at straws! The FBI has already refused to look into this HOAX.
Yes, many, many time over and yes, Ford needs much scrutiny !
Why not? Hasn’t the FBI become the security/intelligence arm of the DNC? Or is that the CIA?
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