withholding a letter<\/a>\u00a0from the committee\u2019s Republican majority alleging sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh until the day the panel was preparing to take a vote to confirm him \u2014 almost two months after receiving the letter and well after the vetting and hearing process.<\/p>\n\u201cYou chose to sit on the allegations until a politically opportune moment,\u201d a furious Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) scolded Feinstein in a letter dated Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot overstate how disappointed I am in this decision,\u201d he added. \u201cIt has caused me to have to reopen the hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grassley suggested that the last-minute allegations were \u201cdeployed strategically for political gain.\u201d Democrats are hoping to delay the hearing until after the Nov. 6 congressional elections to give them a chance to win back enough Senate seats to defeat Kavanaugh. Indeed, Feinstein said, \u201cWe should delay this hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Republicans point to other skullduggery as well.<\/p>\n
This spring, Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign press secretary Brian Fallon hired one of Feinstein\u2019s top aides on the Judiciary Committee to help tank President Trump\u2019s Supreme Court picks from the outside. Together, he and Feinstein\u2019s aide \u2014 former deputy general counsel Paige Herwig \u2014 launched a liberal non-profit group called Demand Justice to lead the left\u2019s attack on GOP nominees.<\/p>\n
In early July, after Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the high bench, Fallon stated that their primary goal was to \u201cdelay\u201d confirmation hearings for him. Meantime, he outlined plans of attack, including ginning up questions about what Kavanaugh \u201cknew and when he knew it\u201d about allegations of sexual misconduct by a federal judge he once clerked for.<\/p>\n
Later that month, a letter alleging Kavanaugh was involved in an \u201cattempted rape\u201d while in high school was hand-delivered to Feinstein\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Curiously, Feinstein did not raise the accusation during confirmation hearings earlier this month. Throughout the hearings, however, Demand Justice dispatched protesters claiming Kavanaugh sought to deny women rights, while running attack ads warning he planned to \u201coverturn Roe [v. Wade] and criminalize abortion.\u201d The ads appeared in Alaska and Maine to try to sway those states\u2019 moderate pro-choice Republican senators to vote against Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
The scare tactics didn\u2019t work. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) sent strong signals they would back Kavanaugh, prompting Demand Justice to concede it might be unable to stop the Senate from confirming him.<\/p>\n
Then, just days before the committee planned to vote for Kavanaugh, the letter that was handed to Feinstein was, in turn, leaked to the media and the accuser was identified. Christine \u201cChrissy\u201d Blasey Ford, a registered Democrat and donor from San Francisco, claimed Kavanaugh tried to pin her down and sexually assault her at a party while the two were in high school. But her details are sketchy. She can\u2019t remember exactly when or where the alleged incident took place, and she concedes she didn\u2019t tell anybody about it at the time, making it hard to corroborate her story.<\/p>\n
Kavanaugh, for his part, has categorically denied the allegation both publicly and during a committee staff interview conducted last week \u201cunder penalty of felony.\u201d Grassley is trying to negotiate a public hearing to air the charges.<\/p>\n
Last month, Blasey Ford took and allegedly passed a polygraph test conducted by a former FBI agent, and hired a law firm headed by major Democratic donors and activists who are working with Demand Justice to smear Kavanaugh as a sexual predator. They\u2019ve created a Web site,\u00a0IBelieveChristineBlasey.com, that encourages voters to call their senators and ask that they vote against Kavanaugh. The site maintains that \u201cBrett Kavanaugh is NOT credible in his denial. Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination is on the ropes; he has everything to gain by lying. He has already lied, multiple times, under oath before the Senate. There is no reason to trust his word now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blasey Ford\u2019s lead attorney, Debra Katz, at the same time heads a leftist advocacy group funded by liberal megadonor George Soros, who also is funding Demand Justice, which has raised $5 million to sink Trump\u2019s high-court picks. In a new attack ad, the group compares Kavanaugh to \u201cchild predator\u201d Judge Roy Moore.<\/p>\n
Who paid for Blasey Ford\u2019s polygraph, and who is covering her legal bills? Who leaked her letter to The Washington Post? Katz and Demand Justice did not reply to requests for comment. Nor did Feinstein\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
But one thing is for sure: Feinstein and her former aide\u2019s fingerprints are all over the smearing of Kavanaugh \u2014 and that\u2019s an ironic shame, given that Feinstein was swept into Congress as a reaction to the then-Democrat Senate\u2019s mishandling of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas sex allegations. The San Francisco-based senator has made her own missteps some 25 years later.<\/p>\n
Sperry is a best-selling author and a former Hoover Institution media fellow<\/em><\/p>\n___
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