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| Brett Kavanaugh: Judge accuser agrees to testify next week | |
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| The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify against him next week. | The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify against him next week. |
| Lawyers for Dr Christine Blasey Ford said she accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee's request to appear before them to be questioned on the alleged attack at a party in 1982. | Lawyers for Dr Christine Blasey Ford said she accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee's request to appear before them to be questioned on the alleged attack at a party in 1982. |
| Some reports say she will testify on Wednesday or Thursday. | |
| Judge Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations. | |
| The allegations, which emerged in the US media last week, have delayed Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. | |
| Dr Ford, a university professor, had originally been granted a deadline on Friday, which later was extended to Saturday, to agree to testify. | |
| Her lawyer Debra Katz said in a letter to the committee on Saturday that her client had accepted the request to testify but wanted to "continue our negotiations" on the details. | |
| She also wrote that "many aspects of the proposal you provided... are fundamentally inconsistent with the Committee's promise of a fair, impartial investigation into her allegations, and we are disappointed with the leaks and the bullying that have tainted the process". |