Article snippet: At a crucial moment during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s rancorous debate on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. MORE (R-Ariz.) realized he had to act and ducked out of the hearing room. Kavanaugh’s nomination appeared to have momentum after Flake, who was the only undecided member of the Judiciary Committee, announced Friday morning he would vote yes because he felt that Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t able to corroborate her sexual assault claim against the nominee. But moments after Flake issued his statement arguing that Kavanaugh deserved the presumption of innocence, the Arizona Republican was confronted outside his Senate office by angry protesters, including two women who described themselves as victims of sexual assault. “I wanted him to feel my rage,” one of the women, Ana Maria Archila, later told The New York Times. When Flake arrived at the committee room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, he was confronted by one of his best friends in the Democratic caucus, Sen. MORE (Del.), who angrily expressed what a mistake it was in his view to back Kavanaugh. “Just before I went in into our committee meeting I was informed that my friend Sen. Flake had decided to vote yes on Judge Kavanaugh and I was perhaps inappropriately — I gave a response that expressed my dismay at that,” Coons later told reporters, self-censoring his conversation. The normally polite Coons blurted out “Oh f---!” to a CNN reporter when he heard about Flake’s decision. Flake... Link to the full article to read more