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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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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 …


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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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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Why the Brett Kavanaugh accusation isn't really a ‘he said, she said’ anymore — This post has been updated. — In her must-read recap of how alleged sexual assaults are prosecuted, The Washington Post's Deanna Paul quotes a former district attorney saying she doesn't like calling these cases “he said, she saids.”
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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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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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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.”
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No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house
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MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up about alleged attack year before Kavanaugh nomination, friends say

The GOP Response to the Kavanaugh Allegations Sends an Unmistakable Message to Women
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Keith Ellison domestic violence accuser says Democratic party doesn't believe her story
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Key witness tells senators he won't testify at Kavanaugh hearing
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The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are not simply a ‘he said, she said’ situation
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At next Kavanaugh hearing, the stakes are higher than a Supreme Court seat
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A former sex-crimes prosecutor analyzed Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh. Here's her take.
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Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
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Lindsey Graham's bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify
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Trump says Kavanaugh 'doesn't deserve' what is happening after sexual assault allegations
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Trump on Kavanaugh: ‘This is not a man who deserves this’
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Democrats Want FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegations. It Likely Won't
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Trump on Kavanaugh allegation: there 'shouldn't even be a little doubt'
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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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Hope you aren't eating when you read this, because Stormy Daniels went there
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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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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).


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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Ted Cruz and the Death of Conservatism
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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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Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers
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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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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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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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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) …


FEMA official suspended in connection with IG probe — A senior FEMA official has been suspended without pay in connection with a Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation into the improper use of government vehicles by FEMA administrator Brock Long, according to two current government officials.
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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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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).


Pompeo raises eyebrows with appearance at politically charged event — Secretaries of state have historically avoided such partisan affairs, say former and current U.S. officials. — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slated to speak later this week to a gathering of American conservative activists …


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.