Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, has agreed to testify before a Senate panel.
The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for Ford reached a tentative agreement on Saturday for her to publicly testify before the panel on Thursday.
“Dr. Ford accepts the Committee’s request to provide her first-hand knowledge of Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct next week,” Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, attorneys representing Ford, wrote in a message to the committee.
This comes after a brief call late on Saturday between the woman’s lawyers and aides to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Aides to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee’s top Democrat, were also part of the negotiations.
They decided to continue the negotiations over the conditions of the testimony on Sunday morning, according to three people…