Senate Judiciary Hires Female Outside Counsel To Question Kavanaugh Accuser

(CNN) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed Tuesday that the panel has hired an outside counsel to question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assault.
The move comes as Kavanaugh’s historic hearing, in which he and one of his accusers, Christine Blasey Ford, will testify, approaches on Thursday and parties on both sides clash over whether a second woman’s recent allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by the