WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has expressed confidence in the appointment of his candidate to the Supreme Court, Brett Cavanaugh, despite stumbling on his candidacy after being charged with sexual harassment in a reality 36 years ago.
"Even if there is a slight delay, I'm sure things will be fine," Trump said, ruling out the withdrawal of his candidate. "It's ridiculous," Trump said, adding that Cavanaugh was "an exceptional judge respected by all."
The 51-year-old college professor, Christine Blacey Ford, will be heard on Monday after the vote was due to be confirmed tomorrow, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee. New post.
While all indications were that Cavanaugh was entering the Supreme Court quickly, he found himself accused of "sexual assault when he was a high school student in a suburb of Washington," which he strongly denies.
"Cavanaugh and a friend kept him in a room during a night and they were completely drunk," he said. "Cavanaugh had her touch and tried to take off her clothes, but she managed to escape from him and escape from the room."
"These charges are completely wrong," Cavanaugh said, and asked that his testimony be heard as soon as possible.
The Republican senator, Chuck Grassley, said the Senate Justice Committee, in its interest in "transparency", will hear in public hearing both the conservative judge and the university professor who accuses him of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s when they were still teenagers.
The identification of the hearing means that the hearing scheduled for the Justice Commission, tomorrow, to vote on the appointment of Cavanaugh has been postponed until after the end of the commission of questioning the conservative judge and professor.
"Anyone who makes a claim, like Dr. Ford, deserves to be heard," Grassley said.
The issue of sexual violence has been a major concern in the United States, especially since the emergence of the "I am too" movement, which has lasted tens of men in positions of power, a year ago.
Reporter Susan Collins, whose vote is crucial to Cavanaugh's assertion, said the two parties should testify under oath. The 10 Democratic members of the Judicial Committee, in a letter from the chairman of the committee, asked to suspend their work pending federal police investigation of the FBI. Full and professional subject.