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.

Christine Blasey Ford's friend is not refuting Ford's allegation, will cooperate with FBI, lawyer says  —  (CNN)Leland Ingham Keyser, a friend of the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were at a party in high school, does not refute the veracity of the allegation …

The miscalculation haunting Trump, Kavanaugh  —  Imagine if Brett Kavanaugh had offered his emotional, tearful, you-ruined-my-life opening speech to the Judiciary Committee — and then called for a quick FBI probe to clear his name and perhaps find the true assailant.

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.

Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory  —  It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.  —  Ms. Hepola is the author of the best-selling memoir “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.”  —  One of the trickiest things about blackouts is that you don't necessarily know you're having one.

The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh  —  Many of us who watched Thursday's Senate hearing spent much of the time cataloguing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's lies.  After hours of testimony, during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford answered questions about her alleged sexual assault …

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.

FBI reaches out to second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct  —  The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her …

Is July 1, 1982 party key to Christine Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh?  —  Just hours after the end of the Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Ford hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, some Democrats began to suggest that a key piece of evidence had emerged.

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 …

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.