Ford wants FBI investigation before testifying  —  (CNN)The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says the FBI should investigate the incident before senators hold a hearing on the allegations.  —  In a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa …

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 …

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.

“Cut Bait”: As the Kavanaugh Nightmare Escalates, Trump Is Gripped with Uncertainty as Ivanka Suggests Cutting the Judge Loose  —  The threat of losing the House and Senate has stopped Trump from going scorched-earth on Christine Blasey Ford.  If Trump antagonizes women voters …

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 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.

Kavanaugh in 2015: ‘What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep’  —  Georgetown Prep's unofficial saying, according to Brett Kavanaugh: What happens there, stays there.  —  The Supreme Court nominee made the crack in a 2015 speech at Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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).