17. Ken Dilanian, Geoff Bennett, and Kristen Welker, “Limits to FBI’s Kavanaugh investigation have not changed, despite Trump’s comments,” NBC News, September 29, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-limits-scope-fbi-s-investigation-allegations-against-brett-n915061.
18. Brooke Singman, “Grassley taunts Bernie Sanders in salty response to Kavanaugh probe letter,” Fox News, October 1, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-taunts-bernie-sanders-in-salty-response-to-kavanaugh-probe-letter.
19. Grace Segers, “Nancy Pelosi calls Brett Kavanaugh ‘hysterical,’ says he is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court,” CBS News, September 29, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-calls-brett-kavanaugh-hysterical-says-he-is-unfit-to-serve-on-the-supreme-court/.
20. Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko, “Nominee’s attack on Democrats poses risk to Supreme Court,” Associated Press News, September 29, 2018, https://apnews.com/29557f45334f470fb55bce5dacba591a.
21. Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos), “Rachel Mitchell, Republican’s outside questioner, privately told GOP senators tonight that based on the evidence she heard at the hearing, she would not have prosecuted or even been able to obtain a search warrant, according to three Republicans,” Twitter, September 27, 2018, 7:25 p.m., https://twitter.com/npfandos/status/1045499632657354752.
22. The Mitchell memorandum will be cited throughout this section. Rachel Mitchell, Nominations Investigative Counsel, “Memorandum re: Analysis of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations,” September 30, 2018, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4952137/Rachel-Mitchell-s-analysis.pdf.
23. John Cornyn interview, “Sen. Cornyn Joins the Five,” The Five, FOX News, October 4, 2018, https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20181004_210000_The_Five/start/2460/end/2520.
24. Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, “Trump Allows Wider Review of Kavanaugh,” New York Times, October 2, 2018, A1.
25. Mike McIntire, Linda Qiu, Steve Eder and Kate Kelly, “Defense From Judge Misleads And Veers Off Course at Times,” New York Times, September 29, 2018, A1.
26. Thomas Lipscomb, “Records Raise Questions About Ford’s Double-Door Story,” RealClearPolitics, October 2, 2018, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/02/records_raise_questions_about_fords_double-door_story__138225.html.
27. “Sylvia Adkins Randall,” Psychology Today, October 3, 2018, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/sylvia-adkins-randall-west-linn-or/7021.
28. The Swetnick interview will be quoted throughout this section. “Julie Swetnick speaks about alleged behavior by Judge Kavanaugh,” Interview by Kate Snow, MSNBC, October 1, 2018, https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/julie-swetnick-speaks-about-alleged-behavior-by-judge-kavanaugh-1334265923929. Transcript available at “FBI expanding probe into Kavanaugh. TRANSCRIPT: 10/1/2018, The Best w Ari Melber,” MSNBC, October 1, 2018, http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/msnbc-live-with-ari-melber/2018-10-01.
29. Aryssa Damron, “MSNBC Legal Analyst: Swetnick’s Allegation Against Kavanaugh Is ‘Not Credible’ and ‘Should Go Away,’ ” The Washington Free Beacon, October 2, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-legal-analyst-swetnicks-allegation-kavanaugh-not-credible-go-away/.
30. Richard Blumenthal et al., Letter to Don McGahn and Christopher Wray, October 1, 2018, https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/9/2/92e7876b-670e-48c7-9b55-b66b09c7ad4e/D70322512DA91E37F4B966721A744469.fbi-and-whi-re-fbi-investigation-klobuchar-witnesses.pdf.
31. Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti), Twitter, October 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1047226356831059970.
32. Kate Snow and Anna Schecter, “New Questions raised about Avenatti claim regarding Kavanaugh,” NBC News, October 25, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/new-questions-raised-about-avenatti-claims-regarding-kavanaugh-n924596.
33. Office of the Chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley, “Senate Judiciary Committee Investigation of Numerous Allegations Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh During the Senate Confirmation Proceedings,” Exhibit 51.
34. Elizabeth Bazelon and Ben Protess, “At Beery Yale, Curses, Fists, Glass, Blood And a Student,” New York Times, October 2, 2018, A13.
35. Andrew Kugle, “Hirono: Kavanaugh Throwing Ice at Someone in College is ‘Very Relevant,’ Reason FBI Must Investigate,” The Washington Free Beacon, October 2, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/hirono-kavanaugh-throwing-ice-college-relevant-reason-fbi-investigate/.
36. David Bauder, “Times says it was wrong to have writer on Kavanaugh story,” AP News, October 2, 2018, https://apnews.com/9de214e064cd4f58b328b63d645d41d3.
37. Heidi Przybyla and Leigh Ann Caldwell, “Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser’s claim before it became public,” NBC News, October 1, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/mutual-friend-ramirez-kavanaugh-anxious-come-forward-evidence-n915566.
38. The Judiciary Committee included the text exchange as an exhibit in its November 2 memorandum regarding the Kavanaugh confirmation. They also indicated that committee investigators discussed the texts by phone with her on October 3, although Berchem still continued to falsely claim she had not been contacted by the committee. The Yarasavage-Berchem texts are quoted throughout this section. Office of the Chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley, “Senate Judiciary Committee Investigation of Numerous Allegations Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh During the Senate Confirmation Proceedings,” Exhibit 31,