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Wall Street Journal:
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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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.
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.
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 …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Collins backs Kavanaugh, all but assuring confirmation  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh secured the 50 votes he needs to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, as Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins announced she would support him.  —  “I do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent Judge 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.).
CBS News:
Collins to announce Kavanaugh vote in floor speech — live updates  —  Judge Brett Kavanaugh will get a final Senate floor vote, after enough senators voted to advance his nomination Friday.  The final vote was 51 to 49.  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, one of four undecided key senators …
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.
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
We're Clear: We Have The Votes; UPDATE: Manchin To Back Kavanaugh
Discussion: RedState, ThinkProgress and Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP confident Collins will back Kavanaugh
Discussion: Townhall, CNBC and IJR
Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
Discussion: Instapundit and National Review
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Sen. Durbin on Kavanaugh: I'll never forget the “fire in his eyes”
Discussion: The Nation and IJR
Anna Staver / Denver Post:
Colorado's Cory Gardner reviews FBI report on Kavanaugh after listening to sexual assault survivors
Discussion: Political Wire
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   Mitch McConnell's Legacy Is Riding on Kavanaugh's Confirmation
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.
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
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.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Here's how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)  —  About 13 percent of Americans don't trust any news outlet at all.  (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)  —  Surveys about “media trust” suffer from a definitional problem.
Kyle Rempfer / Army Times:
Sheriff's deputies laughed at and filmed Army veteran as he died in a jail cell  —  An Oregon county sheriff's office has condemned the actions of three of its deputies who filmed and laughed at an Army veteran as he died of a drug overdose in a padded jail cell.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Hot Air:
No, The Alleged Attack On Ford Didn't Happen At The July 1, 1982 Party, Says ... Ford Team Member  —  Glad they waited until the eve of the cloture vote to make this clear, after a week of theorizing by chumps like me and days spent by the FBI interviewing people named on Kavanaugh's calendar on that date.
Camille Paglia / Hollywood Reporter:
The Rise of “Strangely Unsexy” Instagram Exhibitionism — And Why It Hurts Women (Guest Column)  —  The pro-sex pop-culture academic contends that misguided posts and Hollywood ignorance plague the current generation: “It's time for a major rethink of women's self-presentation.”  —  Welcome to the flesh parade!
Discussion: Althouse
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 …
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 …
Najja Parker / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
'Robert, you're going to kill me': R. Kelly's ex-wife details years of alleged abuse  —  R. Kelly's ex-wife is speaking out about the abuse she said she endured during her 13-year marriage to the R&B star.  —  During an interview on “The View”, she recounted several incidents of alleged domestic abuse …
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.
Discussion: Reuters and The Week
Adele Scalia / The Federalist:
I'm An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats' Treatment Of Kavanaugh  —  All it took was Democrats' treatment of Brett Kavanaugh over the last few weeks to turn me into that elusive creature: a minority, immigrant woman who supports Republicans.  —  I have become a unicorn.
 
 
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