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Kavanaugh Hearing Calls for One Thing: An Investigation
The Senate shouldn’t vote until one has been conducted.
More answers needed.
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She said. He said.
This is the frame in which political partisans of Judge Brett Kavanaugh would like to contain, minimize and then dismiss allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct as a teenager. Today’s carefully circumscribed Senate Judiciary Committee hearing — no witnesses were allowed to testify, though the circumstances demanded it — was designed by Republican leaders to present two sides of a conflict while evading responsibility for discerning which side contains more truth.