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As I have noted before, I think that the SCOTUS nominations of the Trump administration have been perhaps the most normal aspect of his presidency . He has nominated strict conservatives of the Federalist Society pedigree than one would have expected from any Generic Conservative Republican President.
This time via Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer in The New Yoker: Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh's College Years . The woman at the center of the story, Deborah Ramirez, who is fifty-three, attended Yale with Kavanaugh, where she studied sociology and psychology.
Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat tried not to squirm as he sat in a bunker in Havana's airport in 1971, waiting to board the DC-3 that would jet him and other Cuban nationals off the island. He was tense, as they all were.
A Chinese navy hospital ship docked near Venezuela's capital on Saturday as the OPEC nation's deepening economic crisis garners the attention of the U.S. and other world powers. Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino was on hand to greet the People's Liberation Army Navy's ship, the Peace Ark, on its latest stop as part of the 11-nation "Mission Harmony" tour announced in June.
This past week anti-Trump activist Christine Ford accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of groping her over her swimsuit sometime around 36 years ago at an unknown time and place. The three men she accused of being present during the incident have all vehemently denied her accusations.
In the latest chapter of, "As the Senate Spins on Christine Blasey Ford's Finger", Debra Katz, lead attorney for Blasey Ford dismissed a statement from her lifelong friend claiming not only to not remember the alleged high school party where Blasey Ford claims she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, but stating she has never been at a party or gathering with Kavanaugh. Katz's statement, given to NBC News, came in response to a statement by an attorney for Leland Keyser to the Senate Judiciary Committee that said: Ms.
Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past - An adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee has resigned amid questions from NBC News about a previous sexual harassment complaint. - WASHINGTON - A press adviser helping lead 'Incredibly frustrated': Inside the GOP effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation - Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett M. Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life.
Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past - An adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee has resigned amid questions from NBC News about a previous sexual harassment complaint. - WASHINGTON - A press adviser helping lead 'Incredibly frustrated': Inside the GOP effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation - Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett M. Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life.
As TGP's Kristinn Taylor reported , Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced late Friday night via Twitter that he has caved on his 10 p.m. EDT deadline for Christine Ford to decide on testifying before the committee about her uncorroborated charges accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting decades ago at a drunken high school pool party. The counteroffer given by the Senate Republicans to hold the hearing next Wednesday still stands-Ford must respond to the Judiciary Committee with her prepared testimony and biography Saturday at 2:30 PM.
Christine Ford's Attorney Debra Katz: "The Need for Lawyers to Support Social Justice Groups Has Never Been More Urgent" Last Saturday anti-Trump activist Christine Ford accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of groping her over her swimsuit sometime around 36 years ago at an unknown place. The three men she accused of being present during the incident have all vehemently denied her accusations.
Christine Ford has agreed to testify after Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley gave her a 2:30 PM deadline Saturday-but no commitment to a time or formata . As TGP's Kristinn Taylor reported , Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced late Friday night via Twitter that he has caved on his 10 p.m. EDT deadline for Christine Ford to decide on testifying before the committee about her uncorroborated charges accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting decades ago at a drunken high school pool party.
Brett Kavanaugh Liked Female Clerks Who Looked A 'Certain Way,' Yale Student Was Told - Yale professor and "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua, who's a Kavanaugh cheerleader, told the young woman to look "outgoing." - A few years ago, as she was prepping to interview for a judicial clerkship Kavanaugh Accuser Classmate: 'That It Happened Or Not, I Have No Idea' - A former classmate of Christine Blasey Ford tells NPR that she does not know if an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took place as she first suggested on social media.
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Beyond Judge Brett Kavanaugh's grace under assault and Senator Ben Sasse's brilliant lecture on the failure of the Congress to exercise and thereby protect its constitutionally prescribed legislative functions, there was little to admire in the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the nomination of Kavanaugh as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Democrats on the committee struggled desperately to condemn the process and portray the nominee as evil incarnate, while Republicans slow-pitched softballs to a nominee capable of hitting intellectual curveballs out of the park.
Nervous Republican incumbents can take comfort in President Trump's fulfilled promise not to change Social Security. I don't know if this was deliberate or coincidental, but House Speaker Paul Ryan was focused on the President's agenda of tax cuts.
In the 24 hours since I last wrote about the Brett Kavanaugh nomination , further details have emerged including the name of the accuser and the name of Kavanaugh's prep-school buddy on the night of the alleged incident in 1982. According to the tale, the future Supreme Court nominee was with Mark Judge, now a conservative journalist, on the night that 17-year-old Kavanaugh allegedly .
The left always says they're not coming for anyone's gun rights, yet their behavior always suggests otherwise. Gabby Giffords' gun control group is specifically targeting congressional districts with strong support for gun rights in an effort to flip them and they're doing it in a disgusting way.
Typhoon Mangkhut, the world's most powerful storm this year, skidded into mainland China on Sunday after claiming at least 59 lives in the Philippines and pummeling Hong Kong and Macau during a devastating churn across the tropical-storm prone region. Although the region remained on alert, the storm was expected to start dissipating after its Sunday landfall.