Brett Kavanaugh faces second allegation of sexual misconduct

Donald Trump’s pick for the US Supreme Court is facing another allegation of sexual misconduct, after a second woman came forward accusing him of thrusting his genitals in her face at a drunken party at Yale University in 1983.

The woman, 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez, told the New Yorker that she remembers seeing Kavanaugh pulling up his trousers after seeing “a penis being in front of my face”, during a drinking game at a dormitory party on campus.

Ramirez also recalled someone shouting “Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face” after the incident, the New Yorker says.

In a statement, Kavanaugh wrote: “This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and simple.”

The Guardian reports that the White House has continued to back Kavanaugh despite the second allegation, saying it is a “coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man”.