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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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation will delegitimize the Supreme Court — and that's good
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
The High Court Brought Low
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Susan Collins' Bad Faith
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Clare Foran / CNN:
Kavanaugh poised to win confirmation to the Supreme Court Saturday afternoon
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh admits he screwed up — but doesn't actually say how
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Wall Street Journal:
Grassley Says Workload Discourages Women Senators From Joining Judiciary Panel, Then Walks Back Remark
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CNN:
The effort to unseat Susan Collins in 2020 is already underway
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Bitter Tenor of Senate Reflects a Nation at Odds With Itself
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Susan Collins Consents
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HuffPost:
Donors Are Organizing A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Defeat Susan Collins In 2020
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Brett Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed, and Liberals Should Blame Michael Avenatti
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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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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.
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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 …
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Scott Reyburn / New York Times:
Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby's
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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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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 …
Washington Post:
Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph John Pycior Jr. — The weekend before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, my entire family went to Baltimore to tour a railroad museum. While in Baltimore, we trekked to Inner Harbor and went to a beautiful bookstore housed in an old industrial building.
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 …
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
A Reporter Who Wore A MAGA Hat While Covering A Trump Rally Has Been Fired — A reporter for an NBC affiliate in Minnesota was fired Friday, one day after he was spotted wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat while covering a Trump rally for the local TV station.
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 …
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