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Carlos Garcia / TheBlaze:
Journalists made a damaging Kavanaugh story go viral - but it was too good to be true — Mainstream media reporters and commentators appeared to be much too zealous in spreading a false story on social media Friday that was very damaging to Brett Kavanaugh, the president's nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh fight shows us that Washington is sick. Very sick. — Analysis: The Kavanaugh confirmation process will end with no winners. — WASHINGTON — The nation's capital is critically ill. — “D.C. is truly disgusting right now on both sides,” a top Trump ally told NBC News shortly …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
In Plain Terms, Judge Brett Kavanaugh Lies About Everything — He lied about his days as a Republican operative, about the drinking age in Maryland, about the “Devil's Triangle.” All of it. — WASHINGTON— Stars and Stripes — had a damn fine Friday morning, one of which any newspaper would have been proud.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
'I Don't Think People in the U.S. Know How Closely We're Watching This' — International readers tell us how the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee affected their perceptions of the United States.
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Jezebel and Outside the Beltway
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
America Is Finally Listening to Women. It's Sparking a National Crisis. — “The only consensus,” declared the Washington Post about Thursday's Judiciary Committee hearings, “was that the Senate — and the nation — had hit a new low.” In the Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last added that …
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Vox and Weekly Standard
Erik Brady / USA Today:
Is Brett Kavanaugh right that he can no longer coach girls basketball? — Brett Kavanaugh testified the other day that he might never coach girls' basketball again. — He shouldn't - at least not until further investigation has concluded. — The U.S. Senate may yet confirm Kavanaugh …
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Vox, Conservative News Today, The Gateway Pundit and The Nation
Ana María Archila / USA Today:
I confronted Jeff Flake over Brett Kavanaugh. Survivors like me won't stand for injustice. — Jeff Flake finally called for an FBI investigation, showing the power survivors of sexual assault have when we stand together in the fight for change. — CONNECT
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Washington Post, Vox and CBS Philly
Sam Baker / Axios:
How to impeach a Supreme Court justice — Some Democrats are already rumbling about trying to remove Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court, if he's confirmed. That is not at all realistic. — The big picture: Supreme Court justices can be impeached. But if there aren't 50 votes …
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Raw Story, Breitbart, Politico and Wall Street Journal
Emma Dumain / The State:
Graham's defense of Kavanaugh has conservatives applauding. How long will that last?
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Harvard Law School Dean Won't Say If Brett Kavanaugh Still Has A Job
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Fox News Insider, AOL, Reuters and Common Dreams
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Details in Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar entry could be scrutinized in FBI investigation
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Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Women Are Watching — Which should make Republican lawmakers very, very nervous.
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Outside the Beltway, Law & Crime and The Guardian
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Injudicious Man, Unfit for the Supreme Court
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ThinkProgress, LifeSiteNews, Raw Story and Hot Air
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Was I the only one who shuddered at Brett Kavanaugh's belligerent comments about beer?
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Raw Story
Newt Gingrich / Gingrich Productions:
Next for Judge Kavanaugh: Are There Any Honorable Senate Democrats?
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
Here's Exactly What Happened As Jeff Flake Chose To Delay The Kavanaugh Vote
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The Guardian, HuffPost and Media Matters for America
Marina Pitofsky / USA Today:
‘Your life and family are not ruined’: Parkland father slams Kavanaugh
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IJR, ThinkProgress and FOX40
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Senate GOP agrees to one-week delay on Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation to allow for FBI probe
CNBC:
Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge: ‘I will cooperate’ with FBI probe of sex assault claims
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IJR, TheBlaze, twitchy.com, HuffPost, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God., NPR, Snopes.com, Daily Wire, Bustle and thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Flake and Murkowski join Democrats in calling for FBI inquiry of sex assault allegations against Kavanaugh
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AOL, POLITICUSUSA, Telegraph, Raw Story and New York Times
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Ford welcomes reopening of FBI investigation into Kavanaugh, attorney says
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Breitbart, American Greatness, National Law Journal and Washington Post
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trump orders FBI investigation of Kavanaugh, as McConnell says nomination is ‘moving’ forward
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Bustle, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, HuffPost, Scared Monkeys and fox13now.com
New York Times:
At Times, Kavanaugh's Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point — On Thursday, the adolescent jottings of Brett M. Kavanaugh in his high school yearbook were being scrutinized under the searing lights of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, where he sat accused of committing a drunken sexual assault when he was 17.
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Mother Jones, The Intercept, Daily Kos, TheBlaze and The Atlantic
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Bitter Nominee, Questions of Neutrality, and a Damaged Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — In the first round of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings early this month, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh kept his cool under hostile questioning, stressed his independence, and exhibited the calm judicial demeanor …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Jeff Flake Explains Himself — Jeff Flake barely slept the night before he upended the battle for the Supreme Court. — The Arizona senator had spent days agonizing over what to do with the explosive allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a young woman when he was in high school.
New York Times:
A Tumultuous 24 Hours: How Jeff Flake Delayed a Vote on Kavanaugh — WASHINGTON — Surrounded by his colleagues in a cramped corridor behind the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Flake was in agony, getting pounded on all sides. — He had already released a statement that he would vote …
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Politico, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, twitchy.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, NY State of Politics, Joe.My.God., CNBC and Gothamist
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Former FBI agents say there are clues to follow from dramatic Kavanaugh hearing … Former FBI officials expressed confidence Friday that agents could quickly interview key witnesses and track down potential leads into Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett …
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Politico
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The train will continue, and you will be crushed — “I was ... wondering whether I would just be jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway, and that I would just be personally annihilated.” — I am so tired. — The train is very, very urgent.
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Raw Story
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Alvin Chang / Vox:
Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart
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The Intercept, Fox News, Raw Story, Political Wire, Boing Boing, The Atlantic, New Republic, National Review and NBC News
New York Times:
How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations — Can the bureau finish investigating in a week? What about the allegations of other women? Here's what to expect from the inquiry. — Here are three inconsistencies the F.B.I. investigation could address.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade — A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of things. — Sometimes the most important economic events announce themselves with huge front-page headlines, stock market collapses and frantic intervention by government officials.
John Bowden / The Hill:
Bannon predicts ‘three-way race’ in 2020 — Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is predicting that the 2020 presidential race could become a three-way contest. — Bannon said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night that the race could involve a three-way battle between President Trump …
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Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Abolish the death penalty — Without being aware of it, Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law because he is barely aware of anything. For more than 30 years, Alabama, with a tenacity that deserves a better cause, has been trying to execute him for the crime he certainly committed …
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