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New Calls To Impeach Justice Kavanaugh: How It Would Work And Why It Likely Won't

Democratic presidential candidates are raising ousting the controversial justice over a new allegation of sexual misconduct in a New York Times essay.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh listens to a discussion at a Washington event. The justice is facing a new allegation of sexual misconduct, leading some Democrats to call for his impeachment.

There are renewed calls for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be impeached after an essay in the New York Times, excerpting a book by Times reporters, was published this weekend.

The essay includes a previously unreported allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh involving a female student while he was at Yale. NPR has not confirmed the allegation. The reporters include the name of someone who said he witnessed it, but that person has declined to speak publicly about it and has not responded to NPR's attempts to reach him. According to the Times, the female student also declined to be interviewed and her friends say she doesn't recall the incident.

Kavanaugh is also not speaking. "The Justice declines to comment," a Supreme Court spokeswoman tells NPR. He has denied past allegations of

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