WASHINGTON — Christine Blasey Ford has accused Brett M. Kavanaugh of attempted rape while they were both in high school — a charge he unequivocally denies. She can’t remember the date the alleged attack took place. She isn’t even certain about the year (although she reportedly thinks it may have been the summer around the […]
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Has 'drive-by shooting' replaced 'high-tech lynching?'
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, used a violent metaphor Tuesday to express sympathy for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It recalled a metaphor used the last time Americans found themselves witnessing a Supreme Court sexual-misconduct scandal. The Washington Post reported that senior Republicans are increasingly determined to press forward with Kavanaugh’s nomination despite his accuser, […]
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Standoff has Kavanaugh accuser's Senate appearance in limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The high-stakes confrontation over whether Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee grinded into Saturday as Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley gave Christine Blasey Ford more time to decide whether to tell her story to his panel and a riveted nation. Grassley had set a Friday night deadline for the […]
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Kavanaugh is a great judge
One of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s heroes is his mom, a former public-school teacher at McKinley Tech (a predominately African-American high school in Kavanaugh’s hometown of Washington, D.C.). She taught during a difficult time in this nation’s history, filled with racial tension and segregated schools. When 3-year-old Brett Kavanaugh sat in the back of his mother’s […]
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Susan Collins is appalled by Trump's criticism of Christine Blasey Ford
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said she was “appalled” by President Trump’s tweets Friday morning that criticized Christine Blasey Ford for not coming forward sooner with her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Speaking at an event in Portland, Collins appeared to offer support for Ford, who has said Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her […]
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Brett Kavanaugh's Kafkaesque nightmare
If Franz Kafka had written about confirmation hearings, he couldn’t have come up with a better scenario than the one now unfolding in the U.S. Senate. Brett Kavanaugh, who the day before yesterday was an unimpeachable pillar of the legal establishment, stands accused of a heinous offense that is almost impossible to definitively rebut. Even […]
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Susan Collins: It's 'not fair' if Christine Blasey Ford doesn't testify
BANGOR — Maine’s Republican senator says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford should testify, and added that she’s “saddened” by the threats Ford has received. Sen. Susan Collins made the comments on WVOM-FM radio on Wednesday. Collins, a GOP moderate, is considered a critical swing vote in Kavanaugh’s nomination. Collins says Ford […]
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Sen. Collins shouldn't give support
The citizens of Maine are looking down the double barrels of a possible Brett Kavanaugh appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins says women’s rights are important to her, but then shoring up insurance markets were important to her, as well, and everyone knows how well that worked out. Now, she is […]
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Kavanaugh would preserve Constitution
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearing by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was described by Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, as an “Intergalactic freak show.” Good description for what people have seen so far. Some Democratic members were shameful and showed how low they will go to prevent a constitutionalist judge from being confirmed to serve on the […]
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Donald Trump says alleged assault by Kavanaugh is ‘very hard for me to imagine’
? WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that it is “very hard for me to imagine anything happened” between Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexual assault when both were teenagers. Trump praised his Supreme Court nominee as “an extraordinary man” with “an unblemished record” and said what he […]