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3:05 PM ET, October 6, 2018

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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Merrick Garland Has Recused Himself From The Ethics Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh  —  Chief Judge Merrick Garland disqualified himself from handling ethics complaints against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit announced Saturday morning.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Kagan warns that Supreme Court may not have a swing vote anymore  —  Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Friday she fears the high court may lack a justice going forward who would serve as a swing-vote on cases, speaking hours after President Trump's second nominee Brett Kavanaugh secured enough votes to be confirmed.
Robert Post / Politico:
Brett Kavanaugh Cannot Have It Both Ways  —  As the former dean of Yale Law School, I'm shocked by the judge's partisan turn.  —  Brett Kavanaugh and I differ on most fundamental questions of constitutional law.  Nevertheless, as a former dean of the institution where he received his law degree …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans  —  There have been five presidents who assumed the office after having lost the popular vote.  Between them, they nominated 12 justices who ended up serving on the Supreme Court.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
D.C. Circuit sent complaints about Kavanaugh's testimony to Chief Justice Roberts  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has received more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh in recent weeks but has chosen for the time being not to refer them to a judicial panel for investigation.
Press Herald:
Our View: With a ‘yes’ vote, Sen. Collins ties her legacy to that of Brett Kavanaugh  —  It may not seem fair to pin so much responsibility on one senator, but she is part of a small group of her colleagues who could break a partisan vote.  —  Maine's Sen. Susan Collins did more than announce …
Discussion: Kennebec Journal …
New York Sun:
Susan Collins' Game Changer  —  It's tempting to call Senator Susan Collins' announcement of her intention to vote for Judge Kavanaugh a profile in courage and it surely is that.  In recent weeks she has been subjected to threats of violence and what she considers to be a bribery attempt …
Matt Kwong / CBC News:
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation could give Democrats the ‘rage edge’  —  Confirmation of the controversial Supreme Court nominee could fuel a liberal backlash  —  Judge Brett Kavanaugh's promotion to the U.S. Supreme Court is now all but assured.  What's less certain is whether conservative …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation will delegitimize the Supreme Court — and that's good
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Susan Collins' Bad Faith
Clare Foran / CNN:
Kavanaugh poised to win confirmation to the Supreme Court Saturday afternoon
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
McConnell calls opposition to Kavanaugh a ‘great political gift’ to Republicans  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he never considered urging the White House to withdraw Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and called opposition to the judge a “great political gift” …
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Washington Post:
McConnell says he never considered urging Trump to withdraw Kavanaugh nomination, calls opposition a ‘great political gift’ for GOP  —  In an interview with The Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that “we were in the fight to the finish” on Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
“Cocaine Mitch” wins over deplorables  —  You know something rare has happened in the Republican Party when Steve Bannon is gushing over Mitch McConnell — the man he spent months trying to destroy.  —  Between the lines: In a text message last night, Bannon told Swan …
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 …
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Politico:
Senate set to vote on Kavanaugh
Discussion: Washington Post, Political Wire and Vox
Julie Gunlock / American Greatness:
Cosko Is Not An Unpaid Intern  —  Capitol Police on October 3 arrested 27-year old congressional staffer Jackson Cosko for posting on Wikipedia the private addresses of three members of the Senate Judiciary Committee—what's known as “doxxing” (a word derived from the shorthand for “document").
Discussion: Washington Post
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Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Staffer who ‘doxed’ GOP senators faces nearly 50 years in federal prison
U.S. Department of Justice:
District Man Charged in Investigation of Illegal Posting of Restricted Personal Information of U.S. Senators on Website
Discussion: IJR and Roll Call
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Confirming Kavanaugh: A Triumph for Conservatives, but a Blow to the Court's Image  —  WASHINGTON — For President Trump and for Senate Republicans, confirming Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice will be a hard-won political victory.  But for the conservative legal movement …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The High Court Brought Low
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Bitter Tenor of Senate Reflects a Nation at Odds With Itself
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Scott Reyburn / New York Times:
Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby's  —  LONDON — The British street artist Banksy pull off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby's in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction.
Discussion: Althouse and The Guardian
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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 …
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 …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   After Lots of Bluster, Trump Has a Week to Brag About
 
 
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Drain what swamp? Trump's supporters embrace Kavanaugh, member of a class they once rebuked.
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
Women aren't a monolith - and the white women supporting Kavanaugh prove it
Discussion: USA Today
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Of Demagogues and Pedagogues  —  Colombia demonstrates the value of the political center.
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
Austria's Christian Kern withdraws from EU election run
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Russian plot to kill defector began with a false story of his death
 Earlier Items: 
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
Lawsuits point to large trove of unreleased Kavanaugh White House documents
Slate:
Investigation at Yale Law School
Discussion: National Review
Washington Post:
Trump abruptly replaces federal personnel director after just 7 months
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Jim Renacci defends flying on strip club owner's plane to meeting with faith leaders
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