Six years after Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, a Democratic senator claims the FBI barely followed up on explosive sexual assault allegations that emerged during his nomination. A report released Tuesday lays out how White House officials kept a tight leash on the FBI’s inquiry, contrary to Trump’s claims at the time that the agency had “free rein” to investigate the claims.

“Far from getting to the bottom of the allegations against Kavanaugh,” reads the report, which was released by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., after years of fighting both the Trump and Biden administrations for clarity, the FBI’s investigation “raised additional questions about the thoroughness of the FBI’s review and whether its scope had been purposely curtailed.”

In September 2018, following Kavanaugh’s initial confirmation hearing, Christine Blasey Ford accused him of assaulting her when the two were in high school in the early 1980s. Soon after, one of Kavanaugh’s college classmates, Deborah Ramirez, came forward to allege that Kavanaugh exposed himself during a party and shoved his penis in her face. Kavanaugh strenuously denied all of........

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