FBI found "no hint of misconduct" by Kavanaugh: top Republican senator

A top Republican Senator said Thursday that the FBI found "no hint of misconduct" by Brett Kavanaugh that he sexually abused women three decades ago, signalling that US President Donald Trump's nominee may soon become a judge of the Supreme Court.

Last week Professor Christine Blasey Ford testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh, 53, and another man had assaulted her when they were teenagers in the 1980s.

After Ford's dramatic testimony, the Senate panel approved Judge Kavanaugh's nomination but asked for the FBI to conduct further inquiry before the full Senate voted on his appointment to America's top court.

The FBI submitted the confidential report to the Senate committee and soon
"There's nothing in it that we didn't already know."
"We had many fears that this was a very limited process," said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. "Those fears have been realised."