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Article snippet: Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to publicly accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, accused the Senate on Saturday of ignoring evidence during his nomination process. In a statement issued Saturday ahead of Kavanaugh's confirmation vote, Ramirez said through her lawyers that the Senate's refusal to take her allegation seriously reminded her of her alleged assault. "Thirty-five years ago, the other students in the room chose to laugh and look the other way as sexual violence was perpetrated on me by Brett Kavanaugh," the statement reads. "As I watch many of the senators speak and vote on the floor of the Senate I feel like I’m right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way. Only this time, instead of drunk college kids, it is U.S. senators who are deliberately ignoring his behavior." Ramirez came forward late last month, alleging that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when the two were students at Yale University. Kavanaugh has denied her allegation, as well as those leveled against him by Christine Blasey Ford and Julie Swetnick. Ford and Kavanaugh testified last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Ford offering a gripping testimony of her alleged assault and Kavanaugh forcefully denying the accusations in his subsequent testimony. One day later, the Senate panel voted to delay Kavanaugh's nomination as the FBI conducted a supplemental background investigation into Ford's and Ramire... Link to the full article to read more