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5:45 PM ET, October 5, 2018

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Wall Street Journal:
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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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: RedState and Breitbart
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
We're Clear: We Have The Votes; UPDATE: Manchin To Back Kavanaugh  —  UPDATE: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announces she will be voting to confirm Kavanaugh.  With Manchin, we have 51 votes.  That's the ball game. … Well, unless something big happens, it looks like Judge Brett Kavanaugh …
Discussion: Vox, Axios and RedState
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Collins backs Kavanaugh, all but assuring confirmation  —  Brett Kavanaugh's place on the Supreme Court is almost fully secured, with 51 senators publicly supporting him on Friday after three weeks of scandal and political theater.  —  The four remaining undecided votes …
New York Times:
Collins and Manchin Will Vote for Kavanaugh, Ensuring His Confirmation
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Complete National Disgrace
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Sen. Durbin on Kavanaugh: I'll never forget the “fire in his eyes”
Discussion: IJR and The Nation
Quin Hillyer / National Review:
Lisa Murkowski Should ‘Pair No’ with Steve Daines's ‘Paired Yes’
Discussion: CNN
Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
Discussion: Instapundit and National Review
Brett Molina / USA Today:
Republican Sen. Steve Daines will be at daughter's wedding Saturday, same day Senate may vote on Kavanaugh
Discussion: KTVQ-TV, IJR, Hit & Run and JustOneMinute
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
GOP nervous ahead of Kavanaugh vote: “We don't have 50 right now”
Charles Ludington / Washington Post:
We were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies. We don't think he should be confirmed.
Wall Street Journal:
Senators Prepare for Kavanaugh Vote, With GOP Confident
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Fox News:
Read the executive summary of the FBI's supplemental investigation into Kavanaugh allegations  —  Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Thursday released an executive summary of the FBI's supplemental investigation into the Brett Kavanaugh allegations:
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Gregg Nunziata / New York Post:
FBI's Kavanaugh investigation was by the book — just like Democrats demanded
Discussion: Townhall
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump calls Kavanaugh protesters ‘rude elevator screamers’
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and CNN
Associated Press:
American Bar Association reopens Kavanaugh evaluation  —  WASHINGTON — The nation's largest legal organization is reopening its evaluation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh based on his performance during a Senate hearing last week.  —  The American Bar Association's Standing Committee …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Splinter
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
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.”
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.
Discussion: Media and Democracy
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 …
 
 
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Eren Orbey / New Yorker:
Aziz Ansari's New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
‘Closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr.’: Pastor-activist William J. Barber wins $625,000 ‘genius’ grant
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Erik Prince, in Kabul, pushes privatization of the Afghan war
Kyle Rempfer / Army Times:
Sheriff's deputies laughed at and filmed Army veteran as he died in a jail cell
Discussion: Hit & Run and Task & Purpose
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Beto O'Rourke Draws Big Crowds in Texas. But His Voters Tend Not to Vote.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
An Unmistakable Sign Kamala Harris Is Running in 2020
Discussion: Political Wire
Najja Parker / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
'Robert, you're going to kill me': R. Kelly's ex-wife details years of alleged abuse
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Rosemary Sobol / Chicago Tribune:
Cops, detective tried to ‘conceal true facts’ of Laquan McDonald shooting, unsealed prosecution document says
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Joe Williams / Washington Examiner:
Manufacturing confidence at all-time high despite workforce shortage
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Adele Scalia / The Federalist:
I'm An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats' Treatment Of Kavanaugh
Associated Press:
Interpol president reported missing during trip to China
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