“FBI reaches out to second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct”: Shane Harris, Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger, and Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post have this report.

“The roots of male rage, on show at the Kavanaugh hearing”: Law professor Martha Nussbaum has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Partisan politics and Kavanaugh’s defiant words put Supreme Court in unwelcome spotlight”: Robert Barnes and Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post have this report.

“Nominee’s attack on Democrats poses risk to Supreme Court”: Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

“The Secret to Brett Kavanaugh’s Specific Appeal: The nominee’s transgressions, far from marking him as unfit, signal to his supporters that he is trustworthy — he is one of them.” Judith Donath has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“An Injudicious Man, Unfit for the Supreme Court: This was a job interview, not a criminal trial; Kavanaugh, in his fury and pathos, failed the test.” Columnist Roger Cohen has this essay online at The New York Times.

Also online there, columnist Bret Stephens has an essay titled “Believability Is the Road to National Ruin: Thursday’s hearings should not prevent Kavanaugh’s confirmation.”

“Nice Ladies — Three Women: Heartbreaking starts and stops.”: Liz Meriwether has this post at “The Cut” blog of New York magazine.

“Here Are 5 Questions the FBI Should Ask Mark Judge About Brett Kavanaugh”: Peter Maass and Akela Lacy of The Intercept have this report.

“FBI probe could further wound Kavanaugh; Key witnesses such as Mark Judge appear to have agreed to cooperate with the newly ordered probe”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“Maybe America Can Now Learn the Truth: Thank you, Jeff Flake.” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times

And the newspaper has posted online an editorial titled “Women Are Watching: Which should make Republican lawmakers very, very nervous.”

“Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy won’t weigh in on Kavanaugh fight”: Sam Stanton of The Sacramento Bee has this report.

“How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations”: Adam Goldman and Rebecca R. Ruiz will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

Also in Saturday’s edition of that newspaper, Mike McIntire, Linda Qiu, Steve Eder, and Kate Kelly will have a front page article headlined “At Times, Kavanaugh’s Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point.”

“Former FBI agents say there are clues to follow from dramatic Kavanaugh hearing”: Del Quentin Wilber of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Evaluating the Blasey Ford/Kavanaugh Hearing”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote Is Delayed For FBI Investigation; GOP leaders, following request by Flake, want a further look into sexual-assault allegations”: Kristina Peterson, Natalie Andrews, and Rebecca Ballhaus will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Also in Saturday’s edition of that newspaper, Alex Leary and Siobhan Hughes will have an article headlined “Expansion of FBI Probe Draws Focus on Kavanaugh’s High School Associates; Sudden turn of events in Senate Judiciary Committee intensifies attention on a handful of people.”

And Siobhan Hughes and Joshua Jamerson of The Wall Street Journal report that “Sen. Jeff Flake Emerges as Pivotal Figure in Senate’s Delay on Kavanaugh; In the morning, Arizona Republican said he would support nominee; By afternoon, he had moved to put off the vote.”

“Another Kavanaugh Flakeout: The American Bar Association president tries to sandbag another nominee.” This editorial appears online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump orders FBI to probe Supreme Court nominee; GOP pushed Kavanaugh through committee but agrees to weeklong pause”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.

And Dave Boyer of The Washington Times reports that “Trump says he’ll accept delay in Senate confirmation vote for Kavanaugh.”

“The Senate has averted a supreme disaster — for now”: This editorial appears online at The Washington Post.

“FBI again drawn into partisan controversy as Republicans consent to ‘limited,’ additional Kavanaugh background check”: Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post has this report.

And y Michael Kranish, Joe Heim, and Emma Brown of The Washington Post report that “Details in Kavanaugh’s 1982 calendar entry could be scrutinized in FBI investigation.”

“Abolish the death penalty”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“A Judge Ruled That The Affirmative Action Case Against Harvard Should Go To Trial”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued today.

“Harvard Law students protest any return of lecturer Brett Kavanaugh to Cambridge”: Michael Levenson of The Boston Globe has an article that begins, “While Republicans work furiously to salvage Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, there’s another position he may be struggling to hold on to: lecturer at Harvard Law School.”

And Jamie D. Halper and Aidan F. Ryan of The Harvard Crimson have an article headlined “‘We Deserve Better’: Harvard Students Take In Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing, Protest the Law School and the Nominee.”

“Why Christine Blasey Ford Isn’t Allowed to Be Mad; The Kavanaugh hearing was a master class in misreading anger as honesty”: Lili Loofbourow has this essay online at Slate.

“Senate Republicans Agree to One Week Delay in Final Kavanaugh Vote”: Nicholas Fandos and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times have an article that begins, “Senate Republican leaders, bowing to a last-minute demand from Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, will delay by as much as one week a vote on whether to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, to allow time for an F.B.I. investigation into accusations of sexual assault against the nominee.”

“Kavanaugh confirmation hits major snag after Flake seeks FBI probe; Republicans were on course to take the judge’s high court nomination to the Senate floor as soon as this weekend”: Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report.

“A Bitter Nominee, Questions of Neutrality, and a Damaged Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“What a Good Boy”: Rebecca Traister has this post at “The Cut,” a blog of New York magazine.

“Brett Kavanaugh Disqualified Himself From the Supreme Court: The embattled nominee confirmed Democrats’ fears that he would be a partisan warrior for the right.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“The Senate’s Failure to Seek the Truth: It is impossible to justify the lack of a neutral investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.” Emily Bazelon has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Fear a Justice Brett Kavanaugh: As his confirmation steamrolls ahead, Americans should be terrified.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Also online there, William Saletan has an essay titled “Kavanaugh Lied to the Judiciary Committee — Repeatedly; Thursday’s hearing didn’t prove whether Kavanaugh assaulted Ford; But we do know the Supreme Court nominee wasn’t honest in his testimony.”

“Brett Kavanaugh’s Damaging, Revealing Partisan Bitterness”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.

Also online there, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer have a post titled “E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony.”

Doreen St. Félix has a post titled “The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment.”

Susan B. Glasser has a post titled “‘If They Can, They Will’: The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing and the Angry Politics of Now; There are two Americas, growing more enraged by the minute, and they are not listening to each other.”

And Lauren Collins has a post titled “Brett Kavanaugh and the Innocence of White Jocks.”

View live, online today’s Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider the nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court: The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. eastern time, and once underway you can access the Judiciary Committee’s live video feed via this link.

“American Bar Association Urges F.B.I. Inquiry Into Kavanaugh”: Austin Ramzy of The New York Times has this report.

You can view the American Bar Association’s letter at this link.

“Confirm Brett Kavanaugh: The Judge rightly called out the politics of ‘search and destroy.'” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, along with an editorial titled “Lindsey Graham Says Stop: The GOP Senator calls out Democrats for their ‘despicable’ tactics.”

Also in Friday’s edition of that newspaper, columnist Kimberley A. Strassel will have an op-ed titled “The Kavanaugh Stakes: A vote against the judge is a vote for ambush tactics and against due process.”

“She Said. Then He Said. Now What Will Senators Say?” Peter Baker will have this front page news analysis in tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times.

Also in tomorrow’s edition of that newspaper, Michael D. Shear will have an article headlined “Furious Lindsey Graham Calls Kavanaugh Hearing ‘the Most Unethical Sham.’“