The American Bar Association wants the Senate to slow down its rushed confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In a letter to senators, the ABA urged the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the full Senate, to slow down the confirmation process until the FBI has time to do a full background check on the claims made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and other women.
“We make this request because of the ABA’s respect for the rule of law and due process under law,” the ABA letter to committee leadership said. “Each appointment to our nation’s highest court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote.”
During hours of emotional testimony before the committee on Thursday, Kavanaugh vehemently denied ever having sexually assaulted Ford or anyone else, and cited as evidence his multiple background checks and clearances by the ABA during various stages of his career at the highest level of the U.S. judiciary system.
Ford said hours earlier before the same committee that she was “100 percent” certain that Kavanaugh covered her mouth with his hand and tried to remove her clothing while drunk at a party in 1982, when they were both teenagers.
Three Republican governors have called on the senate to slow down the confirmation process.
The Republican majority on the Judiciary Committee still planned to hold a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination this morning.