U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Democratic Member Senator Dianne Feinstein questions FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz during a Judiciary Committee hearing Examining the Inspector Generals First Report on Justice Department and FBI Actions in Advance of the 2016 Presidential Election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1B556731D0
Feinstein says she passed Kavanaugh nomination information to federal investigators
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she's notified federal investigators about information she received concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The California Democrat says in a statement that she "received information from an individual concerning the nomination."
Feinstein isn't saying who that person is or describing the information in any way. She says the person "strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision."
Feinstein — who's on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which just finished confirmation hearings for Kavanagh — says she has "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities."
Another committee Democrat, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, says the matter has been referred to the FBI.
Republicans are pushing to confirm Kavanaugh to the court by Oct. 1, when the 2018-19 term begins.
By — Associated Press
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