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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.
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Flake indicates he'll back Kavanaugh in final vote
Flake indicates he'll back Kavanaugh in final vote
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Gregg Nunziata / New York Post:
FBI's Kavanaugh investigation was by the book — just like Democrats demanded
Wall Street Journal:
Murkowski: Kavanaugh a Good Man But ‘Not the Best Man for the Court at This Time’
Murkowski: Kavanaugh a Good Man But ‘Not the Best Man for the Court at This Time’
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Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
The Kremlin's For Kavanaugh: Russian State Media Back Trump's Supreme Court Nominee
The Kremlin's For Kavanaugh: Russian State Media Back Trump's Supreme Court Nominee
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Adele Scalia / The Federalist:
I'm An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats' Treatment Of Kavanaugh
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP senator may miss Kavanaugh vote for daughter's wedding
GOP senator may miss Kavanaugh vote for daughter's wedding
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Erica Y King / ABC News:
Kavanaugh's nomination advances to final floor vote in Senate
Kavanaugh's nomination advances to final floor vote in Senate
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New York Times:
Trump Mocks Al Franken for Quick Resignation Over Claims of Sex Misconduct
Trump Mocks Al Franken for Quick Resignation Over Claims of Sex Misconduct
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Associated Press:
Sen. Steve Daines will be at daughter's wedding in Montana — Kavanaugh vote or no
Sen. Steve Daines will be at daughter's wedding in Montana — Kavanaugh vote or no
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Windsor Mann / The Week:
Brett Kavanaugh is in the wrong branch of government
Brett Kavanaugh is in the wrong branch of government
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Politico:
GOP leaders all but guarantee Kavanaugh confirmation
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
Friend of Christine Blasey Ford reportedly felt pressure to revisit statement on allegations
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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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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.
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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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
I Thought Men Might Do Better Than This
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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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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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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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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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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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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