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FBI probe does not corroborate charges against Supreme Court nominee: top Republican

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A new FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh found nothing to corroborate sexual assault allegations against the US Supreme Court nominee, a top Republican senator said Thursday.

"This investigation found no hint of misconduct," Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.

"There's nothing in it that we didn't already know." The FBI, at the request of a key Republican senator, was given a week to look into allegations by a university professor that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her when they were teenagers decades ago.

Grassley said it was time to proceed to a vote by the full Senate on President Donald Trump's nominee to sit on the nation's highest court.

 

"I'll be voting to confirm Judge Kavanaugh," he said.

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First Published: Oct 04 2018 | 8:21 PM IST

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