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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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Vox, Daily Kos, Conservative News Today, Washington Post, Sputnik International, Raw Story, HuffPost, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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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?
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The Other McCain, Joe.My.God. and Outside the Beltway
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 …
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Jezebel
New York Times:
Read Susan Collins's Speech Declaring Support for Brett Kavanaugh — Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, announced her support on Friday for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. With Ms. Collins's key vote, Judge Kavanaugh is all but certain to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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 …
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Axios, Bangor Daily News, The Intercept, Sara Gideon, The Daily Beast and The Week
Fox News Insider:
McConnell Praises Sen. Collins, Responds to Susan Rice Possibly Floating Opposing Bid — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reacted Friday to the projected vote total being just enough to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court during Saturday's Senate session.
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Washington Post, Conservative News Today, USA Today and Fox News
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Brett Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed, and Liberals Should Blame Michael Avenatti
Brett Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed, and Liberals Should Blame Michael Avenatti
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Hot Air and twitchy.com
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Did Michael Avenatti help doom the case against Brett Kavanaugh?
Did Michael Avenatti help doom the case against Brett Kavanaugh?
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Conservative News Today, The Daily Beast, Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and Axios
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Bitter Tenor of Senate Reflects a Nation at Odds With Itself
Bitter Tenor of Senate Reflects a Nation at Odds With Itself
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Outside the Beltway
Olivia Paschal / The Atlantic:
Read Susan Collins's Historic Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh
Read Susan Collins's Historic Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh
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New York Times and The American Conservative
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Crisis
The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Crisis
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Slate and Hullabaloo
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Michael Avenatti declares war on Susan Collins
Michael Avenatti declares war on Susan Collins
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twitchy.com, POLITICUSUSA and Patterico's Pontifications
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
House Democrat Promises Kavanaugh Investigation if Party Wins Control
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The American Conservative, Raw Story and Axios
Olivia Exstrum / Mother Jones:
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke Guilty of Murder in Laquan McDonald Shooting
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke Guilty of Murder in Laquan McDonald Shooting
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The Daily Caller, Chicago Sun-Times, Balloon Juice and Chicago Tribune
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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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.
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Breitbart, Sputnik International, The Federalist and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh admits he screwed up — but doesn't actually say how
Brett Kavanaugh admits he screwed up — but doesn't actually say how
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Florida Politics, New York Times, Macleans.ca and Daily Kos
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 …
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Politico and Instapundit
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“None of This Was Fair”: the Kavanaugh Nomination Marks the Triumph of Trumpism on Capitol Hill — For the President, the whole fight has been the kind of win he loves: divisive and loud, with enraged liberals sputtering and his political base riled up. — By the time Senator Susan Collins …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
After Lots of Bluster, Trump Has a Week to Brag About — WASHINGTON — He promised so much success that everyone would be tired of all the winning. But after 20 months that proved more arduous than President Trump once imagined, this may be the best week of his presidency so far.
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump's Remarkable Week — Column: It doesn't get much better than this. — Can we pause for a moment to consider what has transpired in the last seven days? — TRADE: Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced it had reached an agreement with both Mexico and Canada to revise …
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 …
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The Intellectualist and Raw Story
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 …
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National Review
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 …
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Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Lianne Kolirin / CNN:
Nadia Murad, from ISIS sex slave to global human rights campaigner
Nadia Murad, from ISIS sex slave to global human rights campaigner
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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 …
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Krebs on Security, Vox and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show — WASHINGTON — In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson …
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
Austria's Christian Kern withdraws from EU election run — Former Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern announced Saturday he will not run as his Social Democratic Party's lead candidate in the European Parliament election and is stepping down from politics. — Kern previously said he would stand …
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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.”
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