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Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the episode and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself.", "type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf- body-24","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":45,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":45,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"The New Yorker strongly stood by its article.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"anf-body- 25","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":462,"start":0},"textstyle":"_anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":462,"start":0},"textstyle":"anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text": "Adding to Republican concerns, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who claims to have had an affair with Mr. Trump before he became president, posted additional salacious allegations on Twitter. A spokesman for Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the Judiciary Committee chairman, said Republicans are looking into the new allegations, but they intend to continue with Thursday’s hearing as planned.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"anf-body- 26","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":435,"start":0},"textstyle":"_anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":435,"start":0},"textStyle":"anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text": "Republicans find themselves caught between the growing anger of many female voters over the Kavanaugh allegations and the demands of core conservative voters infuriated by what they see as a Democratic plot. Religious conservatives have doubled down on their support for Judge Kavanaugh, arguing that the developments are a last-ditch effort by Democrats to derail the conservative judicial agenda that Mr. Trump promised them in 2016.", "type":"text"}, {"bannerType":"any", "identifier":" anf-banner advertisement- 5", "layout":"ComponentLayout- 4", "role":"banner advertisement", "type": "banner advertisement"},{"identifier":" anf- body-27","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":95,"start":0},"textstyle":"anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":95,"start":0},"textstyle":"anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role": "body", "text": "And conservative judicial activists are keeping up the pressure on Republicans to plow forward.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body- 28","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":423,"start":0}, "textstyle":" anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":423,"start":0},"textstyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"“The White House is clearly very strongly behind him, †said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group that is coordinating support for Judge Kavanaugh. “We are very strongly behind him. If anything, I’™™m seeing conservatives more galvanized by what is going on because it has become such a pattern of unsubstantiated smears and character assassination.â€","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body- 29","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":118,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":118,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"Judge Kavanaugh’s lawyers, Beth Wilkinson and Alexandra Walsh, assailed The New Yorker article on Monday as unfounded.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body- 30","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":381,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":381,"start":0},"textStyle":"anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"“It is facts and evidence that matter when accusations of this kind are made, †the lawyers said in a statement. “Notwithstanding that, the editors of The New Yorker chose to publicize a story describing an alleged incident from Judge Kavanaugh’s college days that not a single eyewitness could corroborate and that even the person making the allegation is herself uncertain about.â€","type":"text"},{"identifier":"anf-body- 31","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":318,"start":0},"textStyle":"anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":318,"start":0},"textStyle":"anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"They said that “testimony as well as documentary evidence from the time†will exonerate him of the allegation that he assaulted Dr. Blasey, presumably a reference to calendar pages that Judge Kavanaugh kept from the summer of 1982 that do not show a party clearly matching the small gathering Dr. Blasey has described.","type":"text"}, {"bannerType":"any","identifier":" anf-banner_advertisement- 6", "layout":"ComponentLayout- 4","role":"banner_advertisement","type":"banner_advertisement"},{"identifier":" _anf- body-32","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":224,"start":0},"textStyle":" _anf-ts- 1"},{"range":{"length":224,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout": "default- HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028402