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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Republicans Consider Using Female Staffers To Question Christine Blasey Ford  —  Every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is male.  They normally would be the ones to face Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser.  —  Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee …
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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.
New York Times:
Kavanaugh's Accuser Has Yet to Confirm Appearance at Monday Hearings  —  WASHINGTON — The woman who has accused President Trump's Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault has so far failed to respond to requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at an extraordinary public hearing on Monday …
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 …
NBC News:
The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are not simply a ‘he said, she said’ situation  —  Prosecutors look for corroborating evidence — and there are strong indications already that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth about her attack.  —  Created with Sketch.
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: Axios, Splinter, The Daily Caller, VICE and CNN
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 …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Key witness tells senators he won't testify at Kavanaugh hearing  —  GOP senators are pressing ahead with a public hearing next week on Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh despite not yet getting her agreement to testify.
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
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Keith Ellison domestic violence accuser says Democratic party doesn't believe her story  —  The woman who accused Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic abuse said on Monday that Democrats don't believe her story and threatened to isolate her over the allegations.
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, Mediaite and RedState
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Feinstein on Kavanaugh Accusation: 'I Can't Say Everything is Truthful'
Discussion: New York Times and twitchy.com
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
At next Kavanaugh hearing, the stakes are higher than a Supreme Court seat
Julia Prodis Sulek / Mercury News:
MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up about alleged attack year before Kavanaugh nomination, friends say
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).
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Washington Post:
Political nonprofits must now name many of their donors under federal court ruling after Supreme Court declines to intervene  —  Advocacy groups pouring money into independent campaigns to influence this fall's midterm races must disclose many of their political donors beginning this week …
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
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.
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 …
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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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
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
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) …
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.
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.
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 …
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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).
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Eyeing 2020, Jeff Merkley hires up in Iowa and New Hampshire … by ALEX SEITZ-WALD  —  LATEST POSTS FROM THE RUNDOWN  —  MIKE MEMOLI  —  September 18, 2018,  —  Biden reflects on Anita Hill case amid Kavanaugh accusations  —  Joe Biden's handling of the Anita Hill case as chairman …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Max Smith / WTOP:
Why college students don't vote absentee?  They don't know where to buy a postage stamp  —  FAIRFAX, Va. — “Vote or die.”  Unless, it's too hard to find a stamp.  —  A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send …
 
 
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Non-Christian refugees shut out of Trump's America
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Brooklyn Diocese Pays $27.5 Million to Settle 4 Sex Abuse Cases
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Politico:
Michel Barnier: EU ready to ‘improve’ Irish border proposal
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Former Fusion GPS Employee Shreds Firm's Work On Paul Manafort
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
FEMA official suspended in connection with IG probe
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Wall Street Journal:
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
White House reviews incident involving Epoch Times photographer handing a folder to Trump
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