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Brett M. Kavanaugh / Wall Street Journal:
I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge — Yes, I was emotional last Thursday. I hope everyone can understand I was there as a son, husband and dad. — I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump's nomination …
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Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement — At issue is statement to committee that she knew nothing about alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh. — A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford's allies to revisit …
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Charles Ludington / Washington Post:
We were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies. We don't think he should be confirmed. — Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher attended Yale University from 1983 to 1987 with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. — We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Washington Post:
Vote ‘no’ on Kavanaugh — AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they evaluating? Is it the steady, conservative jurist he was reputed to be before his confirmation saga?
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Mike Allen / Axios:
2. “We don't have 50” — Sources involved with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation were nervous going into today's 10:30 a.m. test vote, Jonathan Swan reports: — Four senators are undecideds: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Complete National Disgrace — The Kavanaugh hearings as American nadir. — Over the past few years, hundreds of organizations and thousands of people (myself included) have mobilized to reduce political polarization, encourage civil dialogue and heal national divisions.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
GOP nervous ahead of Kavanaugh vote: “We don't have 50 right now” — Sources involved with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation are nervous going into today's 10:30 a.m. test vote. — Four senators are undecideds: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
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New York Times:
How Brett Kavanaugh Failed — And why the Senate should vote to keep him off the Supreme Court. — 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. — The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh …
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Aaron Mesmer / FOX13news:
Man threatened to kill members of Congress over Kavanaugh votes, deputies say — WINTER HAVEN (FOX 13) - A Polk County man is behind bars after he allegedly threatened to shoot members of Congress and their families, along with law enforcement and “liberals,” depending on how the Supreme Court confirmation …
Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh — Democrats turned the Supreme Court confirmation process into a campaign ad. But identity politics and “war on women” tropes only push GOP women away. — CONNECT — There are so many of us.
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Lulu Ramadan / mypalmbeachpost:
Retired Supreme Court Justice: Kavanaugh does not belong on high court
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Politico:
GOP leaders all but guarantee Kavanaugh confirmation
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Benjamin Brown / Fox News:
Friend of Christine Blasey Ford reportedly felt pressure to revisit statement on allegations
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Salt Lake Tribune:
Tribune editorial: Hatch attack on alleged witness is despicable
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Ruth Graham / Slate:
The Kavanaugh Hearings Have Women Fired Up ... to Vote Republican
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Kevin Wallevand / WDAY-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: Heitkamp reveals Kavanaugh vote and reasoning to WDAY News
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump supporter arrested for threatening to slaughter senators and their families for not supporting Brett Kavanaugh
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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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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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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘Grow up’: Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him — Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) raised the ire of protesters on Thursday after telling a group of mostly women who confronted him in one of the Senate buildings that he would talk to them when they “grow up.”
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Anna Staver / Denver Post:
Colorado's Cory Gardner reviews FBI report on Kavanaugh after listening to sexual assault survivors — A Politico report late Thursday featured a statement that said Gardner “remains supportive of Judge Kavanaugh's nomination.” … Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, hasn't decided how he'll vote …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth slumps in September, but the unemployment rate hits the lowest level since 1969 — The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since December 1969 and one-tenth of a percentage point below expectations.
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
US unemployment rate falls to 49-year low of 3.7 percent
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Associated Press:
Interpol president reported missing during trip to China — PARIS (AP) — The president of Interpol, a former senior Chinese security official, has been reported missing after he traveled to his native country at the end of September, a French judicial official said Friday.
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New York Times:
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Congolese Doctor and Yazidi Activist — In the midst of a global reckoning over sexual violence, a Congolese gynecological surgeon and a Yazidi woman who was a captive of the Islamic State were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their campaigns to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing — SAN FRANCISCO — “I want to apologize,” the Facebook executive wrote last Friday in a note to staff. “I recognize this moment is a deeply painful one — internally and externally.” — The apology came from Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president for global public policy.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg Faces Anger Over Facebook Executive's Kavanaugh Support
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Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Terminal Demo Request — The headlines alone are dizzying. Since the New York Times reported allegations of serial predation by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein a year ago, at least 425 prominent people across industries have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct …
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