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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 …
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The High Court Brought Low  —  Don't let Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh have the last word about American justice.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  So what now?
Jack Mirkinson / Splinter:
The Democrats Failed Us  —  Let's be clear: Republicans are to blame for the fact that Brett Kavanaugh is about to become the next justice of the Supreme Court.  But that doesn't mean that Democrats don't have anything to apologize for.  —  Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault by a string of women.
HuffPost:
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 …
Fox News Insider:
McConnell Praises Sen. Collins, Responds to Susan Rice Possibly Floating Opposing Bid
Discussion: Washington Post, USA Today and Fox News
Olivia Paschal / The Atlantic:
Read Susan Collins's Historic Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Crisis
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Michael Avenatti declares war on Susan Collins
National Review:   Thank You, Susan Collins
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:   How Liberals Could Declare War on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court
New York Times:
F.B.I. Review of Kavanaugh Was Limited From the Start  —  President Trump, reacting to critics, said the F.B.I. should have a free hand to investigate.  But the White House counsel told him that would be potentially disastrous. … POLICE SHOOTING  —  White Officer Convicted of Murder in the Death of Black Teenager in Chicago
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
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.
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Attorneys: Christine Blasey Ford doesn't want Kavanaugh impeached, has no regrets
Discussion: TheBlaze
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 …
Discussion: The Intellectualist and Raw Story
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.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Tennessee Senate race: Phil Bredesen goes all in on pledge to break with Democrats
Discussion: Bloomberg and Bredesen for Senate
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
The Kavanaugh effect: GOP runs hard against his tormenter Feinstein
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Slate:
Investigation at Yale Law School  —  An inquiry into the actions of a prominent professor reveals why it's so hard to report inappropriate behavior at the top law school in the country.  —  One afternoon late in her first year at Yale Law School, Linda sat down to create a contemporaneous record …
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Melania Trump's latest white hat evokes colonialist comparison  —  (CNN)When first lady Melania Trump first stepped out in front of the press Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, she was wearing an outfit suitable for the setting.  She was at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, ready to pet …
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Nadia Murad / Statements:
My statement on winning the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize  —  This morning the Nobel Committee informed me that I was selected as a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.  I am incredibly honored and humbled by their support and I share this award with Yazidis, Iraqis, Kurds …
Discussion: BBC, Chicks On The Right and TMZ.com
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Lianne Kolirin / CNN:
Nadia Murad, from ISIS sex slave to global human rights campaigner
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
Lawsuits point to large trove of unreleased Kavanaugh White House documents  —  New details have emerged about potentially thousands of Brett Kavanaugh's White House emails and other records related to the Senate hacking scandal from early in the George W. Bush administration …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.”
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Willing to go to the mat’: How Trump and Republicans carried Kavanaugh to the cusp of confirmation  —  Again and again, President Trump was instructed not to do it.  A cadre of advisers, confidants and lawmakers all urged him — implored him, really — not to personally attack the women …
BuzzFeed News:
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story  —  Multiple senior Apple executives, speaking with BuzzFeed News on the condition of anonymity so that they could speak freely all denied and expressed confusion with a report earlier this week …
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
LaCroix ingredients: Lawsuit alleges “all natural” claim is false  —  LaCroix sparkling water is facing a lawsuit alleging its claims of “all natural” and “100 percent natural” are misleading because of artificial ingredients.  —  “Testing reveals that LaCroix contains a number of artificial ingredients …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
A journalist's disappearance may rev up a Middle East rivalry
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
 
 
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Discussion: USA Today, JustOneMinute and CNN
Associated Press:
American Bar Association reopens Kavanaugh evaluation
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Splinter and CNN
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