OPINION: If Kavanaugh’s Accuser Won’t Testify, the Senate Should Vote

On Monday, Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley announced that the Senate would take the extraordinary measure of holding hearings on Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation against Brett Kavanaugh. The straightforward plan was for Ford and Kavanaugh to testify under oath. But Ford never accepted Grassley’s invitation to testify, and now, apparently, has cold feet. Both Ford’s attorney and Senate Democrats are saying that no hearing should take place until a law-enforcement investigation is completed.