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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Susan Collins' Bad Faith
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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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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Brett Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed, and Liberals Should Blame Michael Avenatti
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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.
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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.
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