The email, obtained by CNN, says Taylor Owings, Douglas
Rathbun and Craig Minerva along with others across the department were selected
to receive "the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service."
The award -- the department's second highest for employee
performance -- is often given to employees who worked on key prosecutions.
News of the award comes amid renewed scrutiny of Kavanaugh's
confirmation to the Supreme Court last year as a new book is published that
contains a previously unreported sexual misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh
while a student at Yale.
The victim declined to be interviewed by the book's authors,
and her friend told the authors she does not recall the incident.
Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was nearly
derailed by allegations of sexual misconduct. Christine Blasey Ford, a
California professor and the first accuser to come forward, testified before
the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a party
when they were both teenagers. He has denied all allegations against him.
While President Donald Trump has stood by Kavanaugh -- as he
did throughout his nominee's confirmation process -- some Democrats, including
presidential candidates, are jumping on the wave of renewed scrutiny to call
for Kavanaugh's impeachment.
"I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to
the US Senate and most importantly to the American people," said Sen.
Kamala Harris of California, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"He was put on the court through a sham process and his place on the court
is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice."
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