Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked the FBI for an update on his criminal investigation referrals of women who falsely claimed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them. Kavanaugh was accused by a number of women in 2018 during a heated confirmation battle of assault, but all of the women later recanted their claims or weren’t able to provide evidence backing them up. Kavanaugh was exonerated by the Senate Judiciary Committee after the upper chamber narrowly confirmed him. Grassley referred several recanters, including Julie Swetnick and Judy Munro-Leighton, to the FBI, in 2018. An investigation into Swetnick’s bombastic claims concluded that statements she and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee “likely contained materially false claims,” Grassley said. Munro-Leighton’s story was undermined by a probe which found she’d falsely stated where she’s from and she later told investigators that she made up the tale “to grab attention.” The …