Democrat Senator Demands New Investigation Into Kavanaugh

In a letter to newly-confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) suggested that the “FBI’s Background Investigation” into the sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a “fake investigation.” Whitehouse wrote that the investigation “appears to have been a politically-constrained and perhaps fake FBI investigation into alleged misconduct by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, rather than what Director Wray promised: a background investigation “consistent with [the FBI’s] long-standing policies, practices, and procedures.” “As you will recall, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27, 2018, about an alleged sexual assault


