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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Jeff Flake Explains Himself — Jeff Flake barely slept the night before he upended the battle for the Supreme Court. — The Arizona senator had spent days agonizing over what to do with the explosive allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a young woman when he was in high school.
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Mother Jones, Axios, IJR, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Breitbart and CNN
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Christine Blasey Ford's friend is not refuting Ford's allegation, will cooperate with FBI, lawyer says — (CNN)Leland Ingham Keyser, a friend of the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were at a party in high school, does not refute the veracity of the allegation …
New York Times:
At Times, Kavanaugh's Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point — On Thursday, the adolescent jottings of Brett M. Kavanaugh in his high school yearbook were being scrutinized under the searing lights of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, where he sat accused of committing a drunken sexual assault when he was 17.
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Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
The miscalculation haunting Trump, Kavanaugh — Imagine if Brett Kavanaugh had offered his emotional, tearful, you-ruined-my-life opening speech to the Judiciary Committee — and then called for a quick FBI probe to clear his name and perhaps find the true assailant.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
In Plain Terms, Judge Brett Kavanaugh Lies About Everything — He lied about his days as a Republican operative, about the drinking age in Maryland, about the “Devil's Triangle.” All of it. — WASHINGTON— Stars and Stripes — had a damn fine Friday morning, one of which any newspaper would have been proud.
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Talking Points Memo
Carlos Garcia / TheBlaze:
Journalists made a damaging Kavanaugh story go viral - but it was too good to be true — Mainstream media reporters and commentators appeared to be much too zealous in spreading a false story on social media Friday that was very damaging to Brett Kavanaugh, the president's nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Erik Brady / USA Today:
Is Brett Kavanaugh right that he can no longer coach girls basketball? — Brett Kavanaugh testified the other day that he might never coach girls' basketball again. — He shouldn't - at least not until further investigation has concluded. — The U.S. Senate may yet confirm Kavanaugh …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Doesn't Deny Assault Claim, Lawyer Says — Brett Kavanaugh tried to use an initial statement from Leland Keyser in his own defense this week. — An attorney for Leland Keyser stated plainly in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that his client …
Discussion:
Political Wire, TheBlaze, AOL and Washington Post
Jim Joyner / Baltimore Sun:
Montgomery officials ‘prepared to investigate’ Kavanaugh allegations — if an alleged victim comes forward — Montgomery County police Chief J. Thomas Manger. (Doug Donovan / Baltimore Sun) — Montgomery County's chief of police and the county state's attorney said Friday they have not launched …
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The Gateway Pundit, Montgomery County, MD Police and LifeZette
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh fight shows us that Washington is sick. Very sick. — Analysis: The Kavanaugh confirmation process will end with no winners. — WASHINGTON — The nation's capital is critically ill. — “D.C. is truly disgusting right now on both sides,” a top Trump ally told NBC News shortly …
The Intercept:
The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh — Many of us who watched Thursday's Senate hearing spent much of the time cataloguing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's lies. After hours of testimony, during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford answered questions about her alleged sexual assault …
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Press Herald, BostonGlobe.com, Vox and USA Today
Sarah Hepola / New York Times:
Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory
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The Intercept and The American Conservative
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Bitter Nominee, Questions of Neutrality, and a Damaged Supreme Court
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electionlawblog.org
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is July 1, 1982 party key to Christine Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh?
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ABC News, National Review, Power Line, Hot Air and HuffPost
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Flake plans to support Kavanaugh after FBI investigates ‘unless they turn up something’
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The Other McCain, Mediaite and The Atlantic
New York Times:
How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations
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The Daily Caller and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Harvard Law School Dean Won't Say If Brett Kavanaugh Still Has A Job
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News Insider and Reuters
Sam Baker / Axios:
How to impeach a Supreme Court justice
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Law & Crime, Raw Story, Breitbart and Politico
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
America Is Finally Listening to Women. It's Sparking a National Crisis.
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Vox
New York Times:
A Tumultuous 24 Hours: How Jeff Flake Delayed a Vote on Kavanaugh
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Politico, Refinery29, IJR, HuffPost, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, BuzzFeed News, AOL, Washington Post, Sputnik International and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Women Are Watching — Which should make Republican lawmakers very, very nervous.
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Refinery29, Law & Crime and Outside the Beltway
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Former FBI agents say there are clues to follow from dramatic Kavanaugh hearing
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Politico
Ana María Archila / USA Today:
I confronted Jeff Flake over Brett Kavanaugh. Survivors like me won't stand for injustice.
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IJR, Washington Post and Vox
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Injudicious Man, Unfit for the Supreme Court
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Week and Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Details in Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar entry could be scrutinized in FBI investigation
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POLITICUSUSA and Townhall
Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Flake and Murkowski join Democrats in calling for FBI inquiry of sex assault allegations against Kavanaugh
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POLITICUSUSA, AOL, Politico, Telegraph and Raw Story
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The train will continue, and you will be crushed
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Raw Story
Newt Gingrich / Gingrich Productions:
Next for Judge Kavanaugh: Are There Any Honorable Senate Democrats?
Alvin Chang / Vox:
Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart
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Hullabaloo, Fox News, Raw Story, Political Wire, Boing Boing and The Atlantic
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Was I the only one who shuddered at Brett Kavanaugh's belligerent comments about beer?
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Raw Story
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Ford welcomes reopening of FBI investigation into Kavanaugh, attorney says
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Axios, American Greatness, Breitbart, National Law Journal and FiveThirtyEight
Washington Post:
FBI reaches out to Deborah Ramirez, a woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct — The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Kavanaugh, according to people familiar with the unfolding investigation.
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Political Wire and Breitbart
Katrina Brooker / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web — Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It's a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Bannon predicts ‘three-way race’ in 2020 — Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon is predicting that the 2020 presidential race could become a three-way contest. — Bannon said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night that the race could involve a three-way battle between President Trump …
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Political Wire, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade — A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of things. — Sometimes the most important economic events announce themselves with huge front-page headlines, stock market collapses and frantic intervention by government officials.
Brian Faler / Politico:
Democrats planning to examine Trump's tax returns after the midterms — A nearly 100-year old statute allows the chairmen of Congress' tax committees to look at anyone's returns. — The years-old mystery of what's in President Donald Trump's tax returns will likely quickly unravel …
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