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Brett M. Kavanaugh / Wall Street Journal:
I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge  —  Yes, I was emotional last Thursday.  I hope everyone can understand I was there as a son, husband and dad.  —  I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump's nomination …
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Charles Ludington / Washington Post:
We were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies.  We don't think he should be confirmed.  —  Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher attended Yale University from 1983 to 1987 with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.  —  We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Anna Staver / Denver Post:
Colorado's Cory Gardner reviewing FBI report on Kavanaugh after listening to sexual assault survivors  —  The senator wants to finish reading the FBI report before making a decision, spokesman Casey Contres said. … Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, hasn't decided how he'll vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Vote ‘no’ on Kavanaugh  —  AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they evaluating?  Is it the steady, conservative jurist he was reputed to be before his confirmation saga?
Wall Street Journal:
Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement  —  At issue is statement to committee that she knew nothing about alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh.  —  A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford's allies to revisit …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP senator may miss Kavanaugh vote for daughter's wedding  —  A GOP senator may miss a Senate confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this weekend because his daughter is getting married on Saturday.  —  Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) will walk his daughter down the aisle …
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Wallevand / WDAY-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: Heitkamp reveals Kavanaugh vote and reasoning to WDAY News  —  FARGO — U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp will vote NO on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.  —  Heitkamp sat down exclusively with WDAY News to share what she will do when the U.S. Senate votes …
New York Times:
How Brett Kavanaugh Failed  —  And why the Senate should vote to keep him off the Supreme Court.  —  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.  —  The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh …
Lulu Ramadan / mypalmbeachpost:
Retired Supreme Court Justice: Kavanaugh does not belong on high court  —  Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday said that high court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, who Stevens once lauded in one of his books, does not belong on the Supreme Court.
Mike Allen / Axios:
2. “We don't have 50”  —  Sources involved with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation were nervous going into today's 10:30 a.m. test vote, Jonathan Swan reports:  — Four senators are undecideds: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh  —  Democrats turned the Supreme Court confirmation process into a campaign ad.  But identity politics and “war on women” tropes only push GOP women away.  —  CONNECT  —  There are so many of us.
Discussion: National Review
USA Today:   Vote no on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
GOP nervous ahead of Kavanaugh vote: “We don't have 50 right now”
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Politico:
GOP leaders all but guarantee Kavanaugh confirmation
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:   Christine Blasey Ford Changed Everything
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Terminal Demo Request
Salt Lake Tribune:
Tribune editorial: Hatch attack on alleged witness is despicable
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘Grow up’: Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him
Discussion: Townhall
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Complete National Disgrace
Discussion: The Week, Hot Air and Vox
Barton Swaim / Weekly Standard:   In Defense Of Lindsey Graham's Righteous Rage
CNN:
Cory Booker says report had “hints of misconduct”
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
No matter what happens, Kavanaugh is being punished
Discussion: Law & Liberty
New York Times:
Kavanaugh Vote on Friday Will Be a Showdown in the Senate
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this?  —  Lindsey Graham learned the benefits of acting audaciously at a young age.  —  As a boy, no older than 6, he hung around his mom and dad's bar in Central, S.C., dressing up as a cowboy and yukking it up with drunks for laughs.
Discussion: Political Wire
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Trump mocks Al Franken over resignation: He folded ‘like a wet rag’  —  President Trump mocked former Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) at a campaign rally in Minnesota Thursday for resigning following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.  —  “That guy was wacky.  Boy did he fold up like a wet rag, huh?”
Discussion: Breitbart and TheBlaze
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Washington Post:   Trump mocks Al Franken for resigning quickly amid sexual misconduct allegations
Chris Baynes / The Independent:
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing  —  SAN FRANCISCO — “I want to apologize,” the Facebook executive wrote last Friday in a note to staff.  “I recognize this moment is a deeply painful one — internally and externally.”  —  The apology came from Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president for global public policy.
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BBC:
Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden  —  An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer.  —  Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidöstern lake while at her family's holiday home in Jönköping County.
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Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Governors: Rating Changes Four States  —  If political geography is helping Senate Republicans, it isn't doing much for the party's quest to hold their losses in gubernatorial contests to a minimum.  There are a handful of races in very red states that have inched from the Likely …
Associated Press:
Still Anonymous: White House hunt for op-ed author fades  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember Anonymous?  —  One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secret “resistance” …
New York Times:
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Congolese Doctor and Yazidi Activist  —  In the midst of a global reckoning over sexual violence, a Congolese gynecological surgeon and a Yazidi woman who was a captive of the Islamic State were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their campaigns to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
This should be a column by Jamal Khashoggi  —  Editor's note: Jamal Khashoggi is a Saudi journalist and author, and a columnist for Washington Post Global Opinions.  Khashoggi's words should appear in the space above, but he has not been heard from since he entered a Saudi consulate in Istanbul …
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Washington Post:
Where is Jamal Khashoggi?  —  JAMAL KHASHOGGI, a journalist …
Discussion: NPR, The Atlantic and New York Times
 
 
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Gregory Eady / Washington Post:
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David Nather / Axios:
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New Scientist:
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Fox News:
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