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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
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Key witness tells senators he won't testify at Kavanaugh hearing
Key witness tells senators he won't testify at Kavanaugh hearing
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
We already know the truth that matters: America can do a lot better than Brett Kavanaugh
We already know the truth that matters: America can do a lot better than Brett Kavanaugh
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality
What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Keith Ellison domestic violence accuser says Democratic party doesn't believe her story
Keith Ellison domestic violence accuser says Democratic party doesn't believe her story
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why the Brett Kavanaugh accusation isn't really a ‘he said, she said’ anymore
Why the Brett Kavanaugh accusation isn't really a ‘he said, she said’ anymore
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham's bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify
Lindsey Graham's bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
At next Kavanaugh hearing, the stakes are higher than a Supreme Court seat
At next Kavanaugh hearing, the stakes are higher than a Supreme Court seat
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump on Kavanaugh allegation: There 'shouldn't even be a little doubt'
Trump on Kavanaugh allegation: There 'shouldn't even be a little doubt'
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house
No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer calls on FBI to probe claim against Kavanaugh
Schumer calls on FBI to probe claim against Kavanaugh
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Grassley: Kavanaugh accuser hasn't confirmed she'll testify at Monday hearing
Grassley: Kavanaugh accuser hasn't confirmed she'll testify at Monday hearing
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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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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Hope you aren't eating when you read this, because Stormy Daniels went there
Hope you aren't eating when you read this, because Stormy Daniels went there
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ted Cruz and the Death of Conservatism
Ted Cruz and the Death of Conservatism
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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 — The Senate on Tuesday passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government running through Dec. 7, aiming to avert a government shutdown and put off a fight over funding …
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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers
Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Brooklyn Diocese Pays $27.5 Million to Settle 4 Sex Abuse Cases — Four men who were repeatedly sexually abused as children by a religion teacher at a Catholic church in Brooklyn received a $27.5 million settlement from the Diocese of Brooklyn on Tuesday, in one of the largest settlements ever awarded …
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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.
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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.
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 …
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The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Soros-Backed Activists Slip Cash To Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Before Arrests — Left-wing groups funded by George Soros and other major Democratic donors hand out cash to protesters arrested for disrupting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, the activists revealed Monday night.
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