THE LEAD STORY - NO MORE DELAYS: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, rejected the requests from Democrats to delay Thursday's key hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and assured skeptics that Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford would have a fair opportunity to tell her story ... In a letter to ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Grassley wrote: "I am not going to silence Dr. Ford after I promised and assured her that I would provide her a safe, comfortable, and dignified opportunity to testify ... There is no reason to delay the hearing any further."
Both Kavanaugh and Ford are expected to testify before the committee Thursday. However, incredibly, Feinstein acknowledged she can’t guarantee Ford will show up. The veteran Democratic senator had asked for the hearing to be delayed after the New Yorker magazine published claims by Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh who says he exposed himself to her while drunk at a college party in the 1980s. Kavanaugh has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.
Grassley also announced that the Judiciary Committee had tentatively rescheduled a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination for Friday morning, further angering Feinstein and Democrats.
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