Sen. Jeff Merkley Jeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Trump, Biden renew push for Latino support Sunday shows - Trump team defends coronavirus response Oregon senator says Trump's blame on 'forest management' for wildfires is 'just a big and devastating lie' MORE (D-Ore.) is calling on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to withdraw as a second sexual misconduct allegation emerges against him.

Merkley on Sunday evening tweeted that Kavanaugh should "step aside immediately," hours after The New Yorker published an article detailing accusations from Kavanaugh's former Yale University classmate.

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Deborah Ramirez is alleging that Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of her without consent in the 1980s.

"The additional information provided by [Deborah] Ramirez regarding Kavanaugh’s behavior in college presents a pattern of conduct that makes it absolutely clear that he is entirely unsuited to serve on the Supreme Court," Merkley tweeted.

"I call upon Brett Kavanaugh for the good of the country and the integrity of the court to step aside immediately," he wrote. "It is time to set aside partisanship and for all 100 senators to join together and acknowledge that this individual is not the right person to serve on the highest court of the land."

It is time to set aside partisanship and for all 100 senators to join together and acknowledge that this individual is not the right person to serve on the highest court of the land. — Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) September 24, 2018

Merkley was one of the first Democratic lawmakers to speak out following the bombshell piece, which comes one week after another woman, Christine Blasey Ford, went public with accusations that Kavanaugh forced himself on her during a high school party in 1982.

Kavanaugh and the White House have denied both accusations.

Ramirez is accusing Kavanaugh of thrusting his penis in her face, forcing her to touch it without her consent. She is calling for the FBI to investigate her account.