WASHINGTON — (Scroll Down For Video) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Dr. Christine Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning. Dr. Ford will testify first–followed by Kavanaugh.
The day’s events will start at 10 a.m. ET. Ford will take the hot seat first, after opening remarks from the committee chairman, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the panel’s top Democrat.
The proceedings are expected to last into the afternoon.
Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell will handle questioning for Republican members during the hearing.
On September 16, Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, said Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was 15 and he was a 17-year old high school student. Specifically, Ford stated that in the early 1980s, when she and Kavanaugh were teenagers, Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, corralled her in a bedroom at a house party in Maryland.
According to Ford, Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, groped her, ground against her, tried to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth with his hand when she tried to scream. Ford said that she was afraid Kavanaugh “might inadvertently kill [her]” during the attack. Ford stated that she got away when Judge, one of Kavanaugh’s friends from Georgetown Prep School, jumped on the bed, knocking them all over.
Read Christine Blasey Ford’s Prepared Statement – FULL TRANSCRIPT
Judge Kavanaugh vehemently denies these allegations.
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