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Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
Silence on Wall Street.  Tears in a retirement home.  The country watches, transfixed, as Ford tells her story.  —  LAKE WORTH, Fla. — “It looks like she's crying,” Hilda Darkins said, as several retirees around her dabbed their own eyes.  “Who can blame her?”
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Kavanaugh hearing live updates: ‘I am terrified’ says an emotional Christine Blasey Ford  —  Now underway, Judge Brett Kavanaugh and professor Christine Blasey Ford face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.  —  The stakes are high: a lifetime appointment to the swing seat on the Supreme Court.
Wall Street Journal:
Kavanaugh Monitoring Hearing From Elsewhere  —  Among those watching Dr. Ford's testimony was Judge Kavanaugh, a committee aide said, from a monitor in another room in the Dirksen Senate Building, where he awaits the opportunity to tell his side of the story later today.
Discussion: The Week
Politico:
Graham erupts in anger at Kavanaugh hearing  —  Lindsey Graham had had enough.  —  The South Carolina Republican erupted in anger during his turn to question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, marking a pivotal turn away from the GOP's previously measured attempt to rely …
Discussion: Axios and Vox
RealClearInvestigations:
Suppressed Blasey Ford Yearbooks Reveal Fast Times at Holton-Arms  —  Democrats plan at Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to use the high school yearbooks of embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, which they say imply he and his prep school pals regularly got drunk …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump thrilled by Kavanaugh's angry defiance  —  President Donald Trump and his aides were ebullient Thursday as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh defiantly rejected charges of sexual misconduct — a mood that reflected some relief after Trump officials conceded that his accuser …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Vox, CNN, New Republic, Axios and Observer
Jesus Rodriguez / Politico:
GOP governors call for delaying Kavanaugh vote  —  Four Republican governors have called for the Senate to take its time with or even forgo a vote on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court ahead of a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill to examine sexual assault allegations against him.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh just got remarkably angry — and political — for a Supreme Court nominee  —  Before delivering his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh assured us that only one other person had seen it.  But it was as if it had been approved by President Trump himself.
CNN:
Graham tells rape victim who asked if he believes her, “Go to the cops”  —  As Senator Lindsey Graham was heading to the elevator after a lengthy and angry exchange with us reporters trailing him in the hallway, a young woman approached him.  She was waiting for him by the elevator.
Politico:
GOP senators: Outside Ford questioner was a mistake  —  Senate Republicans are second-guessing the decision to bring in a female prosecutor to question Christine Blasey Ford — as well as the format for questioning the witness — believing the move may have backfired on them.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Townhall and Axios
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
What Mark Judge's Absence Reveals  —  The strongest evidence that Senate Republicans want to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the nation's highest court, regardless of what he may have done, was the conspicuous absence of Mark Judge from the hearing they held on Thursday.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Brett Kavanaugh's Hearings Convinced Me That He's Guilty  —  I think Brett Kavanaugh is probably lying about having sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, and many other things, and has decided from the beginning to say what he has to in order to fulfill his career ambition.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mark Judge's book validates Christine Blasey Ford's timeline of the alleged Kavanaugh assault  —  During her testimony Thursday morning, Christine Blasey Ford offered one piece of information that she felt could narrow down the time frame of the alleged incident in which she says she was assaulted …
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO BRETT KAVANAUGH?
Discussion: CNN
Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
Kavanaugh FIGHTS BACK in Opening Statement
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Bustle
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:   Six Takeaways from the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:   Lindsey Graham's meltdown gives away the GOP game on Kavanaugh
Dan Merica / CNN:
Democrat apologizes for fundraising off Kavanaugh allegations
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Kavanaugh is pressed on the key July 1 entry in his calendar. But only to a point.
Emma Dumain / The State:
Lindsey Graham gets angry, defends Kavanaugh during emotional hearing
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Ashleydaysc / WPIX 11 New York:   Live coverage: ‘100%’ sure Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault me, Ford testifies
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: Supreme Court nominee insists on his innocence, calls process ‘national disgrace’
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Kavanaugh confirmation controversy spilling into House races, and Republicans are worried
Discussion: Detroit News and Bloomberg
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kavanaugh “hopping mad” ahead of hearing
CBS News:
Christine Blasey Ford testifies she is “100 percent” sure Kavanaugh assaulted her — live updates
Eve Peyser / VICE:
Men Are Defending Brett Kavanaugh Because They're Afraid
Michael Lewis / The Guardian:
'This guy doesn't know anything': the inside story of Trump's shambolic transition team  —  Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times - that's how it all started.  The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind Donald Trump.
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Fancy Bear, the Russian Election Hackers, Have a Nasty New Weapon  —  If Putin's new malware hits you, don't bother wiping your hard drive.  Just throw out your computer.  —  Russia's GRU has secretly developed and deployed new malware that's virtually impossible to eradicate …
David French / National Review:
Ford's Testimony Has Changed Everything and Nothing  —  A few days ago I was on Slate's Gabfest podcast and in a back-and-forth with the New York Times' Emily Bazelon about Dr. Ford's potential testimony, when I noted that live testimony can transform the dynamics of any dispute.
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Someone on Capitol Hill just doxxed Republican Sens. Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch, and Lindsey Graham  —  Somebody working from a House of Representatives office is editing the Wikipedia pages of Republican senators to post what looks like their home addresses.  —  Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina …
 
 
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