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Today, Explained

Accusers, plural

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is facing more accusations of sexual misconduct. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Lizo, you report on Congress here at Vox.

0:24.4

A second Kavanaugh accuser has now come forward.

0:27.6

Who is she?

0:29.0

Where did she share her story?

0:31.3

Deborah Ramirez, a former classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale, has come forward with another allegation

0:37.0

of sexual misconduct.

0:39.0

She shared her story in a New Yorker piece that came out on Sunday.

0:42.9

And in the piece, I'm just going to read directly from it.

0:45.2

She says Kavanaugh exposed himself at a drunk in dormitory party, thrust his penis in her

0:50.7

face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.

0:56.1

And this was at a party at Yale when they were both in college.

0:59.9

How old were they at the time?

1:01.6

Kavanaugh was a legal adult at that point.

1:03.6

So he was already 18.

1:05.6

And that fact is significant because during his confirmation hearing, he was actually

1:09.9

asked directly.

1:11.4

Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors

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