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Julie Swetnick, one of the women who has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused her of falsifying her college and work history on her job application. Legal documents from Maryland, Oregon and Florida provide a partial picture of a woman who stepped into the media glare amid the battle over Kavanaugh's nomination for the nation's highest court. Court records reviewed by the Associated Press show Swetnick has been involved in at least six legal cases over the past 25 years.
A Yale classmate of Kavanaugh accused him Sunday of a "blatant mischaracterization" of his drinking while in college, saying that he often saw Kavanaugh "staggering from alcohol consumption." The classmate, Chad Ludington, who said he frequently socialized with Kavanaugh as a student, said in a statement that the judge had been untruthful in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he had denied any possibility that he had ever blacked out from drinking. Ludington said that Kavanaugh had played down "the degree and frequency" of his drinking, and that the judge had often become "belligerent and aggressive" while intoxicated.
FBI agents on Sunday interviewed one of the three women who have accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Deborah Ramirez detailed her allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the early 1980s when they were students at Yale, the Associated Press reported. Kavanaugh has denied Ramirez's allegation.
Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Donald Trump, said Sunday that she was a victim of sexual assault and that the Supreme Court confirmation proceedings should not become a broader "meeting" of the #MeToo movement, suggesting instead that victims hold their assailants directly accountable. Conway made the personal revelation during an interview on CNN during which she largely derided the "partisan politics" of Kavanaugh's hearing Thursday.
The White House is not "micromanaging" a new FBI review of Kavanaugh's background but is leaving it to senators who requested the probe to dictate the parameters of the investigation, Trump advisers insisted Sunday. Some Democratic lawmakers claim the White House is keeping investigators from interviewing certain witnesses and have questioned how thorough an investigation that must be concluded by Friday can and will be. Trump tweeted that any amount of time "will never be enough" for Democrats, most of whom oppose giving Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, a seat on the nation's highest court.
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