(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is before a Senate committee that is struggling to advance it after a woman alleged Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school in 1982.
Trump, dropping his earlier restraint, on Friday in Twitter posts impugned California professor Christine Blasey Ford's accusations, raising the stakes for Republicans.
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