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Friday, September 21, 2018

“In NH, Collins says Kavanaugh vote should be delayed, to allow accuser to testify”: James Pindell of The Boston Globe has this report.

Posted at 11:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“G.O.P. Leaders Can’t Even Fake Respect for Christine Blasey Ford: They are struggling to pretend they will fairly weigh her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh.” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Murkowski says she’ll wait until Ford testifies before making decision on Kavanaugh”: Tal Axelrod of The Hill has this report.

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh accuser says GOP trying to ‘bully’ her; Her attorneys are seeking an extension of an ‘arbitrary’ GOP deadline”: Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report.

Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“My Rapist Apologized: The Kavanaugh allegations led me to reach out to the man who had assaulted me decades before.” Deborah Copaken has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 9:43 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Supreme Court was America’s least damaged institution — until now”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

Posted at 9:38 PM by Howard Bashman



“In the Eye of the Kavanaugh Storm: Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, talks about the prospects of confirmation, the effort to give the accuser a hearing, and the #MeToo movement.” Tunku Varadarajan will have this “Weekend Interview” feature in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Presumption of Guilt: The new liberal standard turns American due process upside down.” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 9:28 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof: The question isn’t whether he can win confirmation — it’s whether he can defend against the charge he faces in a manner that is both persuasive and honorable.” Benjamin Wittes has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Therein, Wittes writes, “If Kavanaugh were to ask my advice today — and to be clear, he hasn’t done so — I would tell him he almost certainly should have his nomination withdrawn.”

Posted at 9:25 PM by Howard Bashman



“Indiana to ask Supreme Court to hear abortion case”: Jennifer Haberkorn of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “The state of Indiana is planning to ask the Supreme Court to settle an abortion dispute involving a state law that could reopen the debate over Roe vs. Wade in the upcoming term. The state said recently in court filings that it will ask the justices to consider whether a woman can be prohibited from getting an abortion because of the race, gender or health of the fetus.”

Posted at 8:53 PM by Howard Bashman



“‘100 Kegs or Bust’: Kavanaugh friend has spent years writing about high school debauchery.” Marc Fisher and Perry Stein of The Washington Post have this report.

Posted at 8:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Other Problem With Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination: Privilege.” John Cassidy has this post online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 7:57 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Conservative Judge Takes Aim at Roe v. Wade in Face of a Shifting Supreme Court; Judge Bobby Shepherd of the Eighth Circuit has upheld, for now, two Missouri laws restricting abortion that are virtually identical to those struck down in 2016 by the Supreme Court”: Emma Platoff has this report online at The Atlantic.

Posted at 7:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Grassley issues ultimatum to Ford: Testify or we vote; The Senate Judiciary Chairman says if he doesn’t hear back by 10 p.m. Friday, the committee will vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination on Monday.” Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report.

Posted at 7:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“David Boies Pleads Not Guilty: The superlawyer in such cases as Bush v. Gore and the fight for gay marriage rights makes no apologies for representing Harvey Weinstein and Theranos with zeal.” James B. Stewart of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 5:36 PM by Howard Bashman



“Conservative Pundit Points Finger at Another Man to Deflect from Kavanaugh”: Nicholas Fandos of The New York Times has an article that begins, “The head of a prominent conservative research organization apologized on Friday for a bizarre string of tweets in which he suggested that the woman accusing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault might be confusing the judge for one of his high school classmates, whom he posted pictures of and named.”

Posted at 5:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi; CRC Public Relations, a powerhouse conservative firm, guided Ed Whelan on a bad Twitter adventure”: Eliana Johnson of Politico has this report.

At least as recently as May 2018, Christopher Scalia, Whelan’s co-editor on “Scalia Speaks,” worked at CRC.

Posted at 5:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Is Ed Whelan’s Conspiracy the Best the GOP Has? Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is in dire straits.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Online at The Washington Post, columnist Max Boot has an essay titled “The Kavanaugh doppelganger theory shows how far the right has descended into madness.”

And at Inman, a site featuring real estate news for realtors and brokers, Patrick Kearns reports that “Zillow dragged into the spotlight after lawyer tries to use it to prove Brett Kavanaugh’s innocence; In a series of now deleted tweets, conservative lawyer Ed Whelan’s sleuthing inspired a whirlwind of Zillow memes.”

Posted at 4:54 PM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh’s accuser might be better off with a criminal trial. So might Kavanaugh.” Deanna Paul of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 3:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Dianne Feinstein Rode One Court Fight to the Senate. Another Has Left Her Under Siege.” Nicholas Fandos of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 3:39 PM by Howard Bashman



“Is the Kavanaugh Confirmation Battle About to Explode? After days of game theory Republicans’ restraint is beginning to crack, even as Kavanaugh’s accuser doubles down.” Tina Nguyen has this post online at Vanity Fair.

Posted at 3:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“Many Voters Tend to Believe Christine Blasey Ford, Even if They Question Her Motive”: Kate Zernike of The New York Times has this report from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Posted at 3:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Rosenstein Suggested He Secretly Record Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment”: Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 2:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Marc Randazza Is Fighting To Keep Nazis And Trolls On Twitter In The New Speech Wars. Here’s Why.” Joseph Bernstein of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Posted at 1:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“About Those Brett Kavanaugh Doppelgänger Theories — CSI: Beltway. High-school yearbooks. Zillow. The defenses offered on behalf of the Supreme Court nominee have come to suggest a determined resistance to a changing world.” Megan Garber of The Atlantic has this report.

Posted at 1:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Kavanaugh controversy meets fake news. Real fake news.” Media critic Erik Wemple of The Washington Post has an essay that begins, “Conservative activist Ed Whelan just demonstrated why the so-called ‘fake news’ industry employs editors.”

Aaron Blake of The Washington Post has a blog entry titled “The Whelan tweets epitomize how nasty this has gotten — and will get.”

And Avi Selk of The Washington Post has a blog entry titled “Conservatives hyped a pundit who promised to prove Kavanaugh innocent. Then they saw his theory.”

Posted at 1:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ed Whelan’s tweets have created a second Kavanaugh scandal: Did Brett Kavanaugh know a friend of his was planning to smear a private citizen?” Zack Beauchamp of Vox has this report.

Posted at 1:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Hatch aide: We had no role in Ed Whelan’s mistaken identity tweet storm on Kavanaugh.” Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner has this report.

Posted at 11:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh ally says he did not communicate with White House or Supreme Court nominee about theory of another attacker”: Robert Costa and Elise Viebeck of The Washington Post have this report.

Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico report that “Trump uncorks on Kavanaugh accuser; The president’s attacks are upending the Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation.”

And at Washington Monthly, Nancy LeTourneau has a post titled “The Question That Remains About the Mistaken Identity Defense.”

Posted at 11:33 AM by Howard Bashman



“A World War I cross under siege: The stories of the old warriors behind the Supreme Court challenge over Maryland’s Peace Cross.” Ann E. Marimow and Michael E. Ruane of The Washington Post have this report.

Posted at 11:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Kavanaugh Ally Regrets Tweeting Sexual-Assault Allegation on Basis of Google Maps Search”: Eric Levitz has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

Posted at 11:11 AM by Howard Bashman