Washington • Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee of Utah voted to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the full Senate on Friday as another GOP colleague, Jeff Flake of Arizona, successfully pushed for a one-week delay before a final vote while the FBI investigates allegations of sexual misconduct.
Senate leaders agreed to Flake’s demand and asked President Donald Trump to initiate the FBI probe into accusations of three women who say Kavanaugh either assaulted them or acted inappropriately. Kavanaugh, a federal circuit court judge, has denied the allegations.
Trump, in a statement, said he had ordered a “supplemental FBI background investigation [that] must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.