House Democrats promise to investigate Kavanaugh if they take control in November

Democrats vowed to open an investigation into Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault allegations if they take control of the House of Representatives in the November midterms.

The New York Times reported that Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the congressman poised to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats flip the House, announced the forthcoming investigation in a statement made on Friday.

"It is not something we are eager to do,” Nadler told the newspaper. “But the Senate having failed to do its proper constitutionally mandated job of advise and consent, we are going to have to do something to provide a check and balance, to protect the rule of law and to protect the legitimacy of one of our most important institutions.”