Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Monday that he was “working diligently to get to the bottom of these claims,” referring to the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh made publicly by Christine Blasey Ford on Sunday.
Grassley said Ford “deserves to be heard,” but grumbled that committee Republicans “have only known this person’s identity from news reports for less than 24 hours and known about her allegations for less than a week.”
And, like he did on Sunday, Grassley called the process by which the allegations became public “deeply disturbing” — but not the allegations themselves.
Grassley also criticized committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who kept the confidential allegations private for weeks, before news reports made their existence known.
Feinstein’s office, Grassley wrote, has “refused” to schedule follow-up calls with the relevant parties, Ford and Kavanaugh.
Feinstein has addressed this refusal, saying senators have still more to learn about Kavanaugh. “Staff-level examination of these allegations should not go forward until the FBI’s career professionals […] have completed their review,” she and other committee Democrats wrote to Grassley Monday.
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Always the comedian.
Good for you, Chuckles. Love to see that diligent work getting done. Say, you working on the lying under oath and the gambling debt and all that too? The backchannel discussions with this person at Kasowitz’s firm? You know how it goes, you want something done, ask a busy person, right? Awesome, we’ll look forward to what you come up with.
The only thing Grassley is working diligently on is the cover-up and spin.
He, along with Yertle, has zero interest in actually getting to the bottom of this.
Gosh, must be tough to make decisions with incomplete information on an unexpectedly short time frame.
Maybe he should ask every Dem what that’s like …
Not sure what Grassley’s problem is. Even if "committee Republicans ‘have only known this person’s identity from news reports for less than 24 hours and known about her allegations for less than a week’.” look how little time it took for him to round up 65 character witnesses with flawless memories of Kavanaugh’s impeccable character. He should be able to resolve this in time for a Thursday committee vote.