Kavanaugh vows not to withdraw nomination

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Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. 

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday lashed out at a report detailing a second allegation of sexual assault against him, calling the accusation a “grotesque and obvious character assassination” and vowing not to withdraw his nomination.

Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s second pick to join the nine-member high court, was first hit with the second allegation in a report from The New Yorker published Sunday night.

NBC News reported that Kavanaugh is accused of exposing himself to a college classmate, Deborah Ramirez, while they were both at Yale University in the 1980s.

That allegation arrived about a week after reports first surfaced that Christine Blasey Ford, 51, had sent a letter detailing her own accusation of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, 53, that was obtained by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Ford alleges that an intoxicated Kavanaugh held her down, covering her mouth and trying to undress her at a gathering when they were both teenagers.

Kavanaugh has categorically denied both the allegations.

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