Democrats want to know how the information from the supplemental background check was handled and whether any of it was investigated—details they say were never passed on to the senators considering Kavanaugh's nomination.
Three senators' votes tipped the scale in Kavanaugh's favor as protesters took a stand for one of the most controversial Supreme Court nominations in history.Senate Democrats are demanding answers after the FBI revealed just recently that it received more than 4,500 tips about Brett Kavanaugh when he was a Supreme Court nominee in 2018 and that only ones the agency deemed most"relevant" were referred to then-President Donald Trump's White House.
They asked the FBI to hand over by Aug. 31"all records and communications" related to the first-of-its kind tip line the FBI set up that produced both"telephone calls and electronic submissions" and to explain how the tips were evaluated and categorized as"relevant." when they were both in high school in the early 1980s. Local police did not investigate in 2018 and weren't asked to look into her allegations around the time she says the incident happened.from the FBI Thursday, dated June 30, that was written in response to a two-year-old request from Sens. Whitehouse and Chris Coons asking about how an expanded FBI review of Kavanaugh -- done in response to Ford's allegation -- was pursued and how involved the Trump White House was in the probe.
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