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    Is the GOP Releasing Anonymous Kavanaugh Claims to Discredit Legitimate Ones?If so, there are early signs it’s working.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Trump Says Kavanaugh’s Accusers Are Like His Own: FraudulentIn a press conference, Trump dismissed sexual assault accusers — Brett Kavanaugh’s and his own — while hinting he could yet nix the nomination.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Brett Kavanaugh’s College Classmates Out Him As ‘Sloppy Drunk’“Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    GOP Hires Arizona Sex Crimes Prosecutor to Question Kavanaugh and FordUnlike the 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she’s a woman.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Trump Just Can’t Stop Himself From Sliming Kavanaugh’s AccusersAt the U.N., the president attacks both Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez, either going off message or revealing a scorched-earth strategy.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Ted Cruz’s Dinner Was Ruined by Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters“We believe survivors,” the protesters shouted at Cruz and his wife.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Kavanaugh Previews His Defense on Fox NewsThe Supreme Court nominee’s newfound defiance is sure to please President Trump.
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    The Right Closes Ranks Behind KavanaughConservative passion for the Supreme Court nominee isn’t rational any more. It’s holy war.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Kavanaugh Goes to War As New Sexual-Assault Allegations EmergeThe guarded judge of the earlier Senate hearings is gone, as Kavanaugh identifies with his angry defenders.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    RNC Blasts Kavanaugh Accuser for Working ‘Toward Human Rights’Can’t trust anyone who cares about “human rights, social justice, and social change.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Michael Avenatti Implicates Kavanaugh in Pattern of Teenage Sexual AssaultThe attorney says he has evidence that Kavanaugh participated in “multiple” high school “gang rapes.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
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    Kavanaugh Will Cite His Teen Calendars in Assault DefenseAnd the only thing they seem to prove is that the Supreme Court nominee was into calendars when he was 17.
    By Chas Danner
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    It’s Official: Christine Ford Will Testify Against Kavanaugh on ThursdayFord committed to publicly testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee following days of fraught negotiations between her lawyers and Republicans.
    By Chas Danner
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    Christine Ford Wanted to Leave Country If Kavanaugh Became Supreme Court JusticeHer husband says she was overwhelmed with anxiety over the possibility of her alleged attacker becoming so powerful.
    By Chas Danner
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    Grassley Reportedly Gives Ford Until Saturday Afternoon to Decide on TestifyingAfter waffling on his initial ultimatum, the Senate Judiciary Chairman grudgingly extended the deadline.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Kavanaugh Ally Regrets Tweeting Rape Allegation on Basis of Google Maps SearchMeanwhile, new evidence suggests that Brett Kavanaugh played a role in generating the theory that his look-alike assaulted Christine Ford.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Opens Negotiations Over TestimonyHer attorneys told Senate staffers she’s willing to testify on Thursday if they offer “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
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    Kavanaugh Backer Offers Bonkers Theory: Ford Was Assaulted by His Doppelg¨¨angerEd Whelan tweeted out the results of his online sleuthing, but rather than clearing Kavanaugh, he showed why a real investigation is necessary.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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    If Kavanaugh Goes Down, Will Republican Voters Be Discouraged or Enraged?Losing Kavanugh could be a buzzkill for the Republican base in November, unless Democrats wind up getting the blame.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Republicans Regain Confidence in Fight to Confirm KavanaughRepublicans who initially stood up for Ford appear to have accepted their colleagues’ argument that she deserves a speedy hearing, but no FBI probe.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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    Kavanaugh Is Becoming a Headache the GOP Could Do WithoutEven as they try to save Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Republicans are preparing for a “post-Kavanaugh” world.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Will Trump Stick With Kavanaugh Come Hell or High Water?It might be more rational to dump Kavanaugh and go with another SCOTUS nominee. But presidential rage may come into play.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Trump Should Have Nominated a Woman to the Supreme CourtTrump’s famous vetting process did not protect him from a SCOTUS nominee who may join the president as a presumed sexual predator.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Kavanaugh’s Problem Isn’t What He Said in His Hearings. It’s Trump.The president’s unpopularity is rubbing off on his SCOTUS nominee.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Why Democrats Need to Flip Both Collins and Murkowski to Block KavanaughThe replacement of John McCain with Jon Kyl has significantly changed the Senate math on Kavanaugh.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Kavanaugh Put Trump Sycophancy Ahead of Defending the JudiciaryAfter Gorsuch called out Trump’s attacks on the courts, there was talk of rescinding his nomination. At his own hearing, Kavanaugh avoided that risk.
    By Cristian Farias
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    Kavanaugh Testimony Ends With No Bombshells, But a Lot of EvasionsThe nominee sometimes sounded like a criminal defendant taking the Fifth.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Graham Vainly Tries to Get Wary Kavanaugh to Publicly Criticize Roe v. WadeThe man who will very likely be the fifth Supreme Court vote to reverse or modify Roe v. Wade acted as though he had never thought about it.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Democrats Take ‘Civil Disobedience’ Stance in Leaking Kavanaugh DocumentsIn an escalation of protests over a rushed procedure with concealment of documents, Democrats start leaking them and Republicans threaten retaliation.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Kavanaugh Can’t Hide His Slavish Devotion to Presidential PowerDespite the judge’s evasive answers on executive power, his hearings have only underscored that no one should count on him to rein in Trump.
    By Cristian Farias
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    As Kavanaugh Tried to Focus on Legal Abstractions, Real World Kept IntrudingOn day two of the Kavanaugh hearings, Democrats chipped away at the Supreme Court nominee’s attempt to put forth a regular-guy persona.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Most Americans Can’t Name a Supreme Court JusticeThis fact is crucial to a choice the Democrats made when deciding their strategy to oppose Kavanaugh
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Republicans Are Trying to Make Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Seem Routine. It Isn’t.Republicans are trying to disguise a confirmation that they think is an epochal moment in history as a bland, uncontroversial exercise in bureaucracy.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Senate Democrats Considered Kavanaugh Walkout, Opted for Disruption InsteadThey reportedly decided the move was too risky during a Labor Day strategy session – but they haven’t ruled it out.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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    Why the Still-Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documents Are a ScandalWhatever may be lurking in Kavanaugh’s past might be the Democrats’ last chance to stop his nomination.
    By Cristian Farias
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    Why Kavanaugh Stayed in the Middle of the Road in His Opening StatementTo hear the SCOTUS nominee, he’s a centrist who is zealously protective of the independence of the judiciary and devoted to women’s rights.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Everything That’s Happened During the First Day of Brett Kavanaugh’s HearingsFurious Democrats and protestors defined the early going.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Democrats Come Out With Guns Blazing at Kavanaugh HearingMaybe Senate Democrats will roll over eventually, but they aren’t going quietly along with the Kavanaugh confirmation initially.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Why Aren’t Democrats Waging an All-Out War to Stop Kavanaugh’s Confirmation?As activists sound the alarm on the threat to Roe and other rights, many Democrats, taking a cue from party leaders, see confirmation as a done deal.
    By Irin Carmon
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    Welcome to the Brett Kavanaugh ShowWhat to expect from four days of hearings for the man primed to swing the Supreme Court rightward.
    By Cristian Farias