Dramatic US hearings leave vote on Kavanaugh in question

Christine Blasey Ford testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill. Source: Christine Blasey Ford testifies at the hearing (AAP)

The fate of United States president Donald Trump's nominee for a crucial vacancy on the nation's Supreme Court hangs in the balance after a harrowing day of hearings in the US senate. At the centre of whether the 53-year-old judge Brett Kavanaugh proceeds to the highest court in the land is a woman's allegation he sexually assaulted her at a party in 1982.

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