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11:05 AM ET, October 6, 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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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 …
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 …
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?
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh admits he screwed up — but doesn't actually say how  —  This post has been updated.  —  Brett M. Kavanaugh on Thursday took another highly unusual step for a Supreme Court nominee, writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.  The op-ed notably comes as he is widely expected …
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 …
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.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Susan Collins' Bad Faith  —  Her pro-Kavanaugh speech on the Senate floor was an insult to Americans' intelligence.  —  Sen. Susan Collins' Friday speech announcing her decision to support Brett Kavanaugh's elevation to the Supreme Court revealed that her vote had never really been in doubt.
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Nation
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 …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Bitter Tenor of Senate Reflects a Nation at Odds With Itself
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Kagan warns that Supreme Court may not have a swing vote anymore
Discussion: The Week and POLITICUSUSA
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation will delegitimize the Supreme Court — and that's good
Discussion: Althouse and Daily Kos
Olivia Paschal / The Atlantic:
Read Susan Collins's Historic Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Crisis
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Slate
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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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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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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: National Review
Hrag Vartanian / Hyperallergic:
$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction  —  A Banksy artwork “self-destructed” at a Friday night Sotheby's auction in London.  —  “Girl with a Balloon” (2006) was the final lot of the evening sale at Sotheby's and ended things off with an impressive final price of £953,829 …
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Of Demagogues and Pedagogues  —  Colombia demonstrates the value of the political center.  —  Last week I interviewed Colombian President Iván Duque, who took office in August and calls himself a man of the “extreme center.”  In an era of rising populism, I asked …
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 …
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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