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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is being accused of sexual assault from some 36 years ago.

Those accusations could delay a vote on his nomination.

You have to go through this. If it takes a little delay, it'll take a little delay.

I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.

I'm Nina Tottenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR.

Those allegations come from Christine Blasiford.

She told her story to the Washington Post over the weekend.

And what had been an anonymous allegation that had been sent in a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein,

who's the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, suddenly it was no longer anonymous.

There was a name attached to it, and there were also more details.

Nina, can you walk us through exactly what Ford is saying happened 36 years ago?

Basically, the allegation is that when Brett Kavanaugh was 17 and Christine Blasiford was 15,

and they were both high schoolers in Bethesda, Maryland, that they attended a party where there was drinking and no parents, a small party,

and that when she went upstairs to go to the bathroom, two of the boys,

one of them Brett Kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom, locked the door, Kavanaugh threw her on the bed, tried to undress her.

When she tried to scream, he covered her mouth.

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