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Anita Hill / New York Times:
How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.
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New York Times:
Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark  —  The president's lawyers are struggling to understand where the investigations surrounding him are going, and the extent of his legal exposure.  —  2018 EMMY AWARDS  —  ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
THE CORRUPT REPUBLICAN PLOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT  —  Facing the real prospect that their long-sought fifth anti-abortion Supreme Court justice might go unseated, and President Trump's growing legal exposure, the Republican Party is charging into election season …
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump: If We Ditch Kavanaugh, We're Signing Our Own ‘Death Warrant’  —  It's Judge Kavanaugh or bust.  —  For Donald Trump's White House, Brett Kavanaugh is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own Supreme Court nomination.  Instead, those close to the president view …
Lamar White, Jr / The Bayou Brief:
Adrian Perkins Claims Senate Judiciary Committee Relied on Fraudulent Letter Supporting Kavanaugh  —  Yesterday, The Bayou Brief reported that Adrian Perkins, a 32-year-old Democratic candidate for mayor of Shreveport, was one of only eight former or current members of Harvard Law's Black Law …
Discussion: HuffPost
Dick Polman / The Atlantic:
The GOP Response to the Kavanaugh Allegations Sends an Unmistakable Message to Women  —  To understand why women overwhelmingly support a Democratic takeover of Congress—a landslide majority of 65 percent, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey—it's worth parsing …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Exclusive: Bush reaffirms support for Kavanaugh  —  Former President George W. Bush is standing by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a former top White House aide whose confirmation to the nation's highest court has been thrown into doubt amid sexual assault allegations.
Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Caller, VICE and CNN
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality  —  A quote from a playwright runs alongside the family photos on Mark Judge's page in his high school yearbook: “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham's bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Key witness tells senators he won't testify at Kavanaugh hearing
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
Julia Prodis Sulek / Mercury News:
MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up about alleged attack year before Kavanaugh nomination, friends say
Politico:
Trump: Kavanaugh ‘is not a man that deserves this’
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
At next Kavanaugh hearing, the stakes are higher than a Supreme Court seat
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says Kavanaugh 'doesn't deserve' what is happening after sexual assault allegations
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating  —  Exclusive: pornographic actor says Trump 'didn't want to be president' in her book Full Disclosure  —  In a tell-all memoir, the pornographic actor Stormy Daniels details salacious descriptions of her time with Donald Trump …
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Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Don't Let Trump's Penis Ruin Toad, the Mushroom-Headed Sage of Mario Kart  —  On Tuesday, the Guardian published some tidbits from Stormy Daniels' forthcoming memoir, but you probably only heard about her graphic description of President Trump: “He knows he has an unusual penis ... It has a huge mushroom head.
Politico:
Trump rails on top Florida ally over Hurricane Maria flap  —  Republican Ron DeSantis accused of disloyalty for bucking the president.  —  President Donald Trump is privately lashing out at one of his top allies, Ron DeSantis, angrily accusing the Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee of publicly betraying him.
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Mediaite
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
SCOTUS Denies Stay, New Disclosure Ruling Goes Into Effect  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  The Supreme Court today denied a stay, and lifted a temporary stay by Chief Justice Roberts, in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's (CREW) landmark dark money case against Crossroad GPS and the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress  —  A private survey shows many Republican voters “don't believe there is anything at stake” in the midterm elections.  —  A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Former Fusion GPS Employee Shreds Firm's Work On Paul Manafort  — Graham Stack, a freelance journalist hired by Fusion GPS, says the opposition research firm was “almost completely wrong” about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.  — Stack says Fusion GPS provided …
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Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
GOP stalwart Nancy Kassebaum picks Democrat Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach  —  A titan of Kansas Republican politics is shunning Kris Kobach, her party's nominee, in his run for governor.  —  Nancy Kassebaum, who represented Kansas for three terms in the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday …
The Hill:
Senate approves $854B spending bill  —  The Senate is racing to avoid the third government shutdown of the year ahead of a looming end-of-the-month deadline.  —  Senators on Tuesday voted 93-7 to pass a sweeping $854 billion spending bill that includes funding for the Departments of Defense …
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Erica Werner / Washington Post:   Senate passes massive defense and health spending bill, tries to delay border wall fight to after midterms
Bloomberg:
Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements  —  Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News' Tom Schoenberg and Matt Robinson report.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
White House reviews incident involving Epoch Times photographer handing a folder to Trump  —  The White House has reviewed an incident last week in which a news photographer for the Epoch Times, a publication banned in China for its critical coverage, stepped into a restricted area …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Project Veritas:
Deep State Unmasked: State Department on Hidden Cam, “Resist Everything,” “I Have Nothing to Lose”  —  [This post contains video, click to play]  —  Federal Employee for State Department: “Resist everything... Every level.  F**k sh*t up.”  —  Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) …
New York Magazine:
New York Magazine to Launch Expanded Intelligencer Site  —  New York Media today announced the upcoming launch of Intelligencer, a new destination covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.  The site, which will incorporate the company's tech vertical Select All into Daily Intelligencer …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Edge in CD39  —  Kim seen as more in touch, better liked than Cisneros  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Young Kim holds a slight edge over Democrat Gil Cisneros in the open seat contest for California's 39th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Jesse Barron / GQ:
How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich  —  A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman.  The only catch?  They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Leaked NPR Emails: Don't Call Kermit Gosnell an ‘Abortion Doctor’  —  National Public Radio's own past reporting called Kermit Gosnell an ‘abortion doctor.’ But when the makers of a new documentary wanted to pay to use the phrase on air, no dice.  —  Early last month, John Sullivan …
 
 
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