Developing now, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
KAVANAUGH REDUX: The Democratic Party practically - almost literally - has its own Brett Kavanaugh case as a trio of scandals have left the government leadership in Virginia in chaos ... In the latest bizarre twist, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax has retained the same law firm that represented now-Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was going through the confirmation process and faced decades-old sexual misconduct allegations, Fox News has learned. Meanwhile, the woman accusing Fairfax of rape, Dr. Vanessa C. Tyson, meanwhile, has hired the attorneys who represented Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's accuser, who alleged that he'd thrown her onto a bed and muffled her screams at a high school party.
These latest developments amid a report that Tyson made her allegations against Fairfax known to Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia over a year ago. Fox News has not been able to confirm this report. In addition, a new scandal in Virginia politics surfaced on Wednesday. State Attorney General Mark Herring posted a lengthy statement on Wednesday admitting he, too, had donned blackface during a college party in 1980. He admitted donning a wig and brown makeup to look like a black rapper while at a party at the University of Virginia.
Amid all this chaos, Democratic calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign over racist yearbook photos appeared to have died down. Fairfax and Herring follow Northam in the line of succession to the governorship. If all three resigned, Kirk Cox, the conservative Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, would assumes governorship and Democrats do not want to give up that power.
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