Pressley introduces Kavanaugh impeachment resolution

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D- Mass., introduced an impeachment resolution against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after a new report of alleged sexual misconduct.

“I believe Christine Blasey Ford. I believe Deborah Ramirez. It is our responsibility to collectively affirm the dignity and humanity of survivors,” she said in a statement to Boston public radio station WBUR.

Pressley referred to the two women who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during his contentious nomination process last October.

“Sexual predators do not deserve a seat on the nation’s highest court, and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process set a dangerous precedent,” Pressley told WBUR. “We must demand justice for survivors.”

The two- page resolution asks the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the possibility of impeachment.

Democratic leadership seems to have little appetite for a fight over impeachment, and the resolution is unlikely to go anywhere.

An essay published in The New York Times on Sept. 14, adapted from a forthcoming book about Kavanaugh, included reporting about a newly surfaced misconduct allegation, as well as potential corroborating evidence for another allegation.

The New York Times added an editor’s note to the article about information on the allegation that Kavanaugh’s “friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student” that had been left out of the article originally. “The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident,” the Times said.

Kavanaugh has denied the previously reported allegation and declined to be interviewed by the Times about the new allegation.