A Republican senator fired back at one of his colleagues Wednesday after the latter suggested that hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be postponed because of the guilty plea of President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., reacted to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's call to push back the Kavanaugh hearings, saying he strongly opposed "any postponement of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh."
Cohen pleaded guilty to two campaign finance charges on Tuesday.
"Senator Schumer may believe that the Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort cases invalidate the election — I do not," Graham tweeted.
Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman for a brief time in 2016. He was found guilty Tuesday of bank and tax fraud in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom. Some Democrats have jumped on the two cases as reason to put a halt to the Kavanaugh hearings until more facts can be sorted out.
Schumer called the developments "a game changer."
Graham is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a panel that has to approve Kavanaugh's nomination before the full chamber votes on him.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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