page_title: Brett Kavanaugh
section_title: Sexual assault allegations
hierarchical_section_title: Brett Kavanaugh / Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (since 2018) / Sexual assault allegations
caption_attribution_description: English: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in the Justices’ Conference Room, Supreme Court Building. Mrs. Ashley Kavanaugh holds the Bible.Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
context_page_description: Brett Michael Kavanaugh is an American judge. He is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since October 6, 2018. He was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was Staff Secretary in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under President George W. Bush.
  Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
  Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, following the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.
  During the confirmation process, two women, accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during his college years. Kavanaugh denied the allegations.
  According to polling, Kavanaugh has the lowest measured approval rating of any Supreme Court Justice in the modern era.
context_section_description: On September 27, 2018, Professor Christine Blasey Ford, accused him of sexual assault when they were both in high school. Republican members of the committee did not question Ford directly rather a Republican-hired investigator.
  Ford said that they were both “visibly drunk” and that Kavanaugh had locked her into a bedroom, where he groped her and tried to take off her clothes. She said she “believed he was going to rape me” and feared for her life when he held his hand over her mouth. In his opening statement, Kavanaugh claimed the accusations were politically motivated by Democrats and Bill Clinton.
  After Ford opened up about her accusations, two more women accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault/harassment. Deborah Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself when they were at Yale. Later, former government employee Julie Swetnick, accused Kavanaugh of drugging her and raping her in a gang rape.
  After the Senate committee vote, Senators Flake, Manchin and Murkowski called for an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. President Trump ordered a limited investigation.
caption: Kavanaugh being sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts, October 2018
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