--- title: Senate Committee Officially Postpones Brett Kavanaugh Vote description: The Senate Judiciary Committee officially cancelled a meeting set for this week to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination canonical: https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-18T22:53:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:58.709Z article:section: Politics og:title: Senate Judiciary Committee Officially Delays Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations og:description: The Committee was expected to delay the vote after announcing a public hearing with Kavanaugh and Ford next week og:url: https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604f0fc679e2f28a/69893a94db2987422e260b89/brett-kavanaugh-vote-meeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5853 og:image:height: 3292 og:image:alt: Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Brett Kavanaugh To Be Supreme Court Justice og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Senate Judiciary Committee Officially Delays Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations twitter:description: The Committee was expected to delay the vote after announcing a public hearing with Kavanaugh and Ford next week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604f0fc679e2f28a/69893a94db2987422e260b89/brett-kavanaugh-vote-meeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Senate Judiciary Committee Officially Delays Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations > Sponsored content. 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Sep 18, 2018 10:53 PM UTC The Senate Judiciary Committee officially cancelled a originally meeting set this week to vote on [Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination](http://time.com/5400037/trump-brett-kavanaugh-allegations-response/) amid sexual assault allegations against the judge. The cancellation of the meeting, which will delay the vote that would advance Kavanaugh’s nomination, comes after [Christine Blasey Ford accused him of assaulting her](http://time.com/5397627/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault/) at a high school party in the 1980s. The Committee was expected to delay the vote after [announcing Monday that it will hold a public hearing](http://www.time.com/5398806/senate-public-hearing-kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford/) with Kavanaugh and Ford next week. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley did not immediately say when the panel will vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination. The cancelled meeting was initially scheduled for Sept. 20 at 9:30 a.m. Ford alleges that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a house party when they were teenagers and tried to remove her clothes against her will. Kavanaugh, who has denied the allegations against him, said he was willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee about [Ford’s claim](http://time.com/5398157/brett-kavanaugh-assault-allegation/). Ford has not yet confirmed whether she will attend the public hearing next Monday, [the New York _Times_ reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearing.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/"},"headline":"Senate Judiciary Committee Officially Delays Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations","datePublished":"2018-09-18T22:53:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:58.709Z","description":"The Committee was expected to delay the vote after announcing a public hearing with Kavanaugh and Ford next week","url":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/","keywords":["Supreme Court","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604f0fc679e2f28a/69893a94db2987422e260b89/brett-kavanaugh-vote-meeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604f0fc679e2f28a/69893a94db2987422e260b89/brett-kavanaugh-vote-meeting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Brett Kavanaugh To Be Supreme Court Justice","caption":"Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Brett Kavanaugh To Be Supreme Court Justice","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/supreme-court/","name":"Supreme Court"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/","name":"Senate Judiciary Committee Officially Delays Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Kavanaugh Hearings Disrupt Bipartisanship","description":"Disputes along party lines becoming the new normal for Senate confirmations.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/O4vq7fAa/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-09-19T20:30:43.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/O4vq7fAa.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/","duration":"PT4M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5400181/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-vote-cancel/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```