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[h=2]BREAKING NEWS: Senate Judiciary Committee on the verge of advancing Kavanaugh's nomination for SCOTUS after Senator Jeff Flake says he WILL vote to confirm him[/h]
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's nomination was set to get a major boost from the Judiciary Committee after holdout Republican Sen. Jeff Flake announced his support. A handful of Republican and Democratic centrists hold Brett Kavanaugh's fate in their hands after an electrifying day of testimony which saw him fight for his professional life - and Christine Ford detailing her claims that he tried to sexually assault her. Within minutes of the conclusion of the riveting testimony by both Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford, Senate Republicans announced that the Judiciary Committee would meet Friday morning for a vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation. Kavanaugh is expected to clear the committee to head to the Senate floor. That would set up a key procedural vote as early as Saturday with a final deciding vote to follow next week. Key holdouts huddled in the Capitol on Thursday evening, as the main contingents of Republicans and Democrats joined their respective camps. In the main Senate vote, Republicans can allow just a single defection if they want to confirm the nominee who emphatically denied sexual assault and attempted rape allegations, unless a Democrat crosses the aisle to support Kavanaugh. Pictured inset: Committee members, including an undecided Jeff Flake, watch testimony at yesterday's committee hearing.









BREAKING NEWS: Senate Judiciary Committee on the verge of advancing Kavanaugh nomination after Sen. Jeff Flake says he WILL vote to confirm him



  • GOP Senator Flake of Arizona said he will vote to confirm the embattled nominee
  • White House still will not say it has the votes to prevail on the floor
  • 'I left the hearing yesterday with as much doubt as certainty'
  • The Republican-run Judiciary Committee met Friday morning on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination
  • He is expected to clear the committee, setting up a key procedural vote as early as Saturday on Senate floor
  • Democrats moved to subpoena Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge, an alleged witness
  • Kavanaugh needs 50 votes from Senate to gain nomination - the Senate has 51 Republicans, 49 Democrats
  • Four centrists will likely decide fate - Repubs Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Dem Joe Manchin
  • Moderate Democrat Doug Jones already revealed Thursday he believed Christine Ford and would vote no
  • Kavanaugh gave a furious defense on Thursday as he repeatedly complained of his tarnished reputation
  • Ford gave emotional testimony as she recounted vivid details of the night she said Kavanaugh assaulted her
 

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Three Republicans (Collins, Murkowski and Flake) and five Democrats (Donnelly, Heitkamp, Manchin, Nelson and Tester) are thought to be 'in play' and could switch sides when a final Kavbanaugh vote is called on the Senate floor
 

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Supporters: Kavanaugh had a team of loyal supporters backing him for the hearing including his parents and wife
 

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[h=2]Leave me out of it: Kavanaugh 'sex assault' witness Mark Judge pleads to be left alone in letter to Senate committee because he is a 'recovering alcoholic and cancer survivor' after Christine Ford told it he helped attack her[/h]
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Mark Judge (left) was named by Dr Christine Blasey Ford (bottom right) as being present during the alleged sexual assault she claims Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (top right) committed at a high school party in 1982. Dr Ford, now a university psychology professor, claims Judge watched the attack and urged Kavanaugh on. In her testimony, she spoke of how the alleged sexual assault at the party in 'the Chevy Chase/Bethesda area' in 1982 had haunted her for 35 years and left her suffering with anxiety and PTSD. In a letter (inset) sent to the Committee he explained that he had chosen not to speak publicly as he has struggled with depression and anxiety while recovering from alcoholism and cancer. However, he stated in the letter, he did not recall the events described by Dr. Ford and never saw Kavanaugh 'act in the manner described'. Judge is seen center in a high school photo with Kavanaugh when they were playing on the football team.

 

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