Senate Judiciary Committe Chairman Chuck Grassley (IA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will be joined by GOP Senators Orrin Hatch (UT), John Cornyn (TX), Mike Lee (UT) and Thom Tillis (NC) for a Thursday afternoon press conference to discuss the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
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Earlier Thursday, GOP holdouts Jeff Flake (AZ) and Susan Collins (ME) backed an FBI report after the agency reopened its background investigation on Kavanaugh at their insistance – virtually guaranteeing Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
“I think Susan Collins was quoted saying it was very thorough but no new corroborative information came out of it. That’s accurate,” Flake told reporters after viewing the FBI report in the Capitol Visitor Center’s secure compartmentalized information facility (SCIF) on Thursday.
After being briefed on the FBI’s seventh background investigation into Judge Kavanaugh, I have seen no corroborating evidence to the claims made against him. It’s time to vote, and I will vote to #ConfirmKavanaugh.
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) October 4, 2018
Democrats, meanwhile, are throwing a fit – as Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer (NY) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) held a press conference of their own earlier Thursday in which they said that the FBI report “looks to be the product of an incomplete investigation,” and refuted Grassley’s statement that there was “no hint of misconduct.”
The odds of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, meanwhile, have shot up to 88% on PredictIt.
Two weeks ago Kavanaugh’s odds of confirmation dropped as low as 36% (with an intra-day low of 26%).
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