A second woman has come back forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, claiming he drunkenly exposed himself to a classmate in faculty and thrust his genitals in her face without her consent, the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer 1st reported Sunday.
Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University with Kavanaugh, said the incident happened their freshman year of faculty during a group drinking game. She was sitting on the ground in an exceedingly circle of students when one male student — who she later came to appreciate was Kavanaugh — exposed himself to her. Ramirez added that another student within the group encouraged her to “kiss it” and that in the method of pushing Kavanaugh away, she touched his penis.
“I keep in mind a penis being in front of my face,” Ramirez told the New Yorker. “I knew that’s not what I needed, even in that mind set.”
In a very statement, Kavanaugh wrote: “This alleged event from thirty five years ago didn't happen. The individuals who knew me then know that this failed to happen, and have said thus. This is a smear, plain and easy. I anticipate testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my smart name — and therefore the reputation for character and integrity I actually have spent a lifetime building — against these last-minute allegations.”
The White House has stood by Kavanaugh, saying in an exceedingly statement that the most recent allegations were “inconsistent with what several ladies and men who knew Judge Kavanaugh at the time in college say.”
Ramirez, per the New Yorker, was reluctant to return forward with the accusation as a result of she had been drinking at the time and is aware of there are holes in her memory. She has known as for the FBI to launch an freelance investigation into her allegations.
Kavanaugh would have been eighteen years recent at the time of the alleged incident, a legal adult. During his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month, he said he had never “committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature,” throughout his Senate confirmation hearings earlier this month.
Two of the lads who Ramirez said were involved within the incident said that they had no recollection of Kavanaugh exposing himself. Several college friends of Kavanaugh and Ramirez also said they never heard of the incident happening at the time. However, another classmate told the New Yorker he was “one hundred % sure” somebody told him concerning the incident at the time, and he corroborated some details of Ramirez’s story.
Several Senate Democrats have been investigating Ramirez’s allegations, after having learned regarding them last week. Republican Senate offices have additionally been aware of the allegations, according to the New Yorker.
This is that the second lady to come forward with sexual misconduct allegations
This is the second accusation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, who this summer appeared virtually guaranteed to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
The initial allegations came from Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University in California, who told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh held her down at a high faculty party in the Eighties and tried to force himself on her, covering her mouth to quiet her protests.
Ford’s allegations were documented by her therapist in notes from sessions in 2012 and 2013, in which Ford talked about a “rape try” and being attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ faculty.” Kavanaugh denied the accusation, as did another male classmate who Ford said was involved in the incident.
Ford has agreed to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at ten am on Thursday.
Senate Republicans are pushing to get Kavanaugh confirmed this fall, before the midterm elections and the beginning of the new Supreme Court term on October one, and spent the week spinning Ford’s allegations as a final-ditch Democratic attempt to hold up the confirmation. However, there was enough pressure from lawmakers that the Senate Judiciary Committee has committed to hearing from Ford and Kavanaugh before moving forward with votes on his confirmation.
Senate Republicans have declined to decision for the FBI to research Ford’s accusation of sexual assault, and aides told the New Yorker they were concerned Ramirez’s story could derail the nomination further.
The White House, therefore way, has not backed down from support of Kavanaugh. Near the top of last week, President Donald Trump tweeted a response to Ford’s allegations: “Let her testify, or not, and TAKE THE VOTE!”