In America, if you want an alleged crime investigated, the first place to turn is the Washington Post, and then the U.S. Senate, correct?

We're talking about offenses from the 1980s that even if there was a conviction, it would only be a misdemeanor.

And without a complaint being filed immediately, the statute of limitations expires after a year.

The case, of course, is the one Democrats have assembled against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. They allege that he assaulted a woman 36 years ago when both were in their teens.

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However, there's been no complaint filed against Kavanaugh in the local jurisdiction that would have been responsible for any investigation.

Not now.

Not ever.

A letter released by Montgomery County police reveals that there was a request for an investigation. It came from Ariana Kelly, the Democratic Caucus Chair of the Montgomery County House Delegation.

But police officers couldn't move forward.

Because, a spokesman told WND Monday afternoon, there was no evidence, no victim to talk to, no nothing.

"Even as of today, there are no victims complaining," the officer told WND.

Kelly had, according to the letter from Police Chief J. Thomas Manger and State's Attorney John J. McCarthy, requested the Montgomery Council Police Department "open a criminal investigation involving sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh."

"To date, there have been no criminal reports filed with the Montgomery County Department of Police that would lead to the initiation of any criminal investigation related to Judge Kavanaugh," the response said. "Furthermore, the law at the time the offense occurred is the law that must be applied to any charges that might be brought. For example, in 1982, assault and attempted rape were both misdemeanors and subject to a one-year statute of limitations.

"The Montgomery County Police Department and the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office stand ready to investigate any sexual assault allegation from any victim where the incident occurred in our jurisdiction," the letter said.

The lack of any move for a police investigation of the claims made by Christine Ford shadows Democrat demands last week that the FBI investigate the claims. Kavanaugh already has had six FBI background checks during his more than two decades of government service.

Even that proved problematic for Democrats, as they are now demanding this week an unlimited scope and unlimited time investigation.

Their objective clearly is to delay Kavanaugh's confirmation vote until the midterm elections, which could give them authority to kill the nomination.

Their fear is that as a constitutional originalist, Kavanaugh will replace Anthony Kennedy's swing vote with a solid fifth conservative vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade and return regulation of abortion to the states.

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recalled the words of Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith during the McCarthy era who rejected McCarthy's characterization of his opponents as communists.

At the time, she said,: "Mr. President, I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. ... The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body. ... But recently that deliberative character has ... been debased to ... a forum of hate and character assassination."

She said Americans have the right to criticize, protest and hold unpopular beliefs.

"Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others," she warned

McConnell said that the Senate today, with Democrats attacking Kavanaugh, is similarly a "rendezvous for vilification."

He said that "whether it be a criminal in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of the person has been ruined."

He charged the Democrats themselves have stated their intent to "delay, obstruction and resist" with "everything they've got."

See the letter: