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Grassley Says Workload Discourages Women Senators From Joining Judiciary Panel, Then Walks Back Remark — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) predicted that there would be more Republican women on his panel next year, after suggesting that the panel's workload was a deterrent.
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Donors Are Organizing A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Defeat Susan Collins In 2020 — That's on top of $2 million already crowdsourced for her future Democratic opponent. — The left has a new top target for 2020: Maine Sen. Susan Collins. — While the election is more than two years away …
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Wall Street Journal:
Susan Collins Consents — The Maine Republican restores reason to the Kavanaugh confirmation. — The Editorial Board — With no small sense of the dramatic moment, Maine Senator Susan Collins waited until the final words of her more than 30-minute floor speech Friday to announce …
The Daily Beast:
Top Dem Super PAC Backs Away From Phil Bredesen for Backing Kavanaugh — One of the top Democratic aligned super PACs says it will no longer consider helping Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen in Tennessee's Senate race after Bredesen announced his support for Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Washington Post:
Senate votes 51 to 49 to advance Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court — The Senate advanced Brett M. Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination in a key procedual vote Friday morning, putting him one step closer to confirmation and ending a deeply partisan and rancorous fight.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren's new, tantalizing claim about Kavanaugh shows what utter madness this is — One of the most infuriating aspects of this whole Kavanaugh saga is the degree to which we are flying blind about some of the most fundamental points of disagreement at its core.
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Senator Susan Collins:
Senator Collins Announces She Will Vote to Confirm Judge Kavanaugh — Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) delivered remarks from the Senate floor this afternoon to announce her decision to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake Are Frauds, Plain and Simple. Their Kavanaugh Votes Show It. — Never again. — Never again believe Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, or Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., when they claim to be critics of Donald Trump or posture as “moderate” Republicans.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Backfire. — At 12:30 in the afternoon on September 27, I don't think there were many serious political thinkers or activists on the Right who thought Brett Kavanaugh would survive that morning's testimony by his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. — Eight days later—today—Kavanaugh all but secured his appointment.
Wall Street Journal:
Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement
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Olivia Paschal / The Atlantic:
Read Susan Collins's Historic Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh
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Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Michael Avenatti declares war on Susan Collins
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Kavanaugh's confirmation all but assured
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Brett Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed, and Liberals Should Blame Michael Avenatti
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
How Liberals Could Declare War on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court
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Adele Scalia / The Federalist:
I'm An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats' Treatment Of Kavanaugh
Michael Lista / New Yorker:
The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh
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CBS News:
Collins to announce Kavanaugh vote in floor speech — live updates
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Sen. Durbin on Kavanaugh: I'll never forget the “fire in his eyes”
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Wall Street Journal:
Bar Association's Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary Reopens Evaluation of Kavanaugh
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Murkowski: Kavanaugh ‘good man’ but maybe ‘not the right man for the court’
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
The battle over accusations goes on as Kavanaugh nomination advances — Kavanaugh classmates ignored by the FBI speak out, reveal new text message. — WASHINGTON — As Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, closed out his executive summary of allegations of sexual misconduct …
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? — Lindsey Graham learned the benefits of acting audaciously at a young age. — As a boy, no older than 6, he hung around his mom and dad's bar in Central, S.C., dressing up as a cowboy and yukking it up with drunks for laughs.
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New York Times:
House Democrat Promises Kavanaugh Investigation if Party Wins Control — Representative Jerrold Nadler said he was prepared to look into accusations of sexual misconduct and perjury. — Trump Claims, Without Evidence, That Kavanaugh Protesters Were Paid — The president derided women protesting …
Kathleen Culliton / Park Slope, NY Patch:
'I'm Doing My Workout,' Mayor Tells Homeless Woman Seeking Help — Video shows Mayor Bill de Blasio told 72-year-old Nathylin Flowers Adesegun, “I can't do this now.”
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Melania Trump Raises Eyebrows in Africa With Another White Hat — NAIROBI, Kenya — A half a world away from the spectacle of Washington, Melania Trump still managed to create one of her own during a Kenyan safari on Friday, riding out into the grassland wearing a crisp white pith helmet — a common symbol of European colonial rule.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
The Kavanaugh effect: GOP runs hard against his tormenter Feinstein — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Republicans are wielding a new liberal bogeyman on the campaign trail to get out the vote and fend off Democrats in the midterm elections: Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democratic senator from California.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Tennessee Senate race: Phil Bredesen goes all in on pledge to break with Democrats
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Rep. Eric Swalwell / Fresno Bee:
Nunes buried evidence on Russian meddling to protect Trump. I know because I'm on the committee — No one really expected President Donald Trump, who benefited from Russia's 2016 election interference, to counter that hostile regime's active measures: Russia wanted him to win, and when they hacked, he invited them to hack more.
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The War That Never Ends — The vote on Brett Kavanaugh is likely to be taken this weekend. But, the impact of the battle over his confirmation is likely to have short and long-term consequences. — As for the short term, the consensus seems to be building among both Democratic …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
A journalist's disappearance may rev up a Middle East rivalry — Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — We still do not know what has happened to Jamal Khashoggi.
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Don Palmerine / Washington Post:
I watched a rape. For five decades, I did nothing. — Many men have stories to tell and confessions to make. This is mine. — Don Palmerine is a former reporter and columnist living in Pittsburgh. — I was both an observer and a participant in a teenage rape.
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Governors: Rating Changes Four States — If political geography is helping Senate Republicans, it isn't doing much for the party's quest to hold their losses in gubernatorial contests to a minimum. There are a handful of races in very red states that have inched from the Likely …
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
The Worst Job in American Politics
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Christopher R. Browning / The New York Review of Books:
The Suffocation of Democracy — As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe.
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Take a Tour of Manafort's Multimillion-Dollar Homes, Going Up for Sale — As part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Paul Manafort, President Trump's disgraced campaign chairman, forfeited his New York homes worth about $22 million to the government. — An 1890s Brooklyn brownstone with gilded details.
Katie Heaney / The Cut:
Almost No One Is Falsely Accused of Rape — Much mention has been made recently (mostly by men) of false rape accusations, and how frequently they occur. During Brett Kavanaugh's testimony last week, several senators apologized for the damage supposedly inflicted by these claims (which …
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