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A Georgetown University associate professor's tweets that white Republican men should die a "miserable death" for supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court is more than just about free speech, said the head of Students for Life of America. "Recommending violence, death and mutilation for members of Congress is not a simple 'free speech' moment," Kristan Hawkins told Catholic News Service in an email late Oct. 3. "It's a debasement of our free market place of ideas and a recommendation for criminal conduct."
The end of a trying process was finally here for Senator Susan Collins. The Maine Senator cast her official 'Yea' vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following the final vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018.
As the Senate voted to confirm alleged sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, October 6, protesters took to the streets of Washington D.C. to make themselves heard. Equipped with signs, banners, and most notably, their own voices, people who opposed Kavanaugh's confirmation made their way to the Senate gallery , where they shouted, fists raised, interrupting the roll call several times.
As Sen. Heidi Heitkamp hustled down the main drag in Sunday's Uffda Day parade, Elizabeth Ritter, a middle-aged woman in a pink coat and matching hat, stepped off the curb, pulled the lawmaker close and spoke into her ear, carving out a private moment amid the blaring music and cheers. "I said I was proud of her and God bless her," Ritter said later.
The University of Southern Maine is being criticized for having briefly offered a tuition-free "pop-up" credit to students enrolled there to be transported to Washington, D.C. to call on Sen. Susan Collins to vote against confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Two employees at the university discussed in an email the academic credit for what was called an "Engaged Citizenship" course.
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said on Friday that he plans to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. This came after the Senate passed a procedural vote in the morning that put the embattled nominee one step closer to his new job on the high court.
Four days after he described Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as a "very credible witness," President Donald Trump could no longer contain his feelings or constrain his instincts. With the fate of his Supreme Court nominee in the balance, Trump let his "Make America Great Again" rally attendees in Mississippi know what he really thought of Ford's testimony.
The feelings of protesters and supporters of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the nation's highest court centered, in Connecticut, on the swing vote of Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins. Dozens of people gathered on the steps of New Haven's Superior Court following the Senate vote on Saturday boo-ed Sen. Collins, whose vote pushed Kavanaugh's nomination over the top in a 50-48 margin, one of the narrowest ever for a Supreme Court nominee.
California's candidates for governor and U.S. Senate are infiltrating television, Facebook feeds and mailboxes with campaign ads and slick mailers, but there's one place voters aren't likely to see them - the debate stage. On Monday, a San Francisco public radio studio will be the venue for the lone debate -- or "conversation," as it's been billed -- in the race for governor between Democratic Lt.
Bill Chandler, a team leader at the Whitewater office for the Democrats of Walworth County, speaks to residents about the November election while canvassing on East Main Street in Whitewater. Field organizer Brent Efron, left, and Austin Kieler, right, the campaign manager for Democratic congressional candidate Tom Palzewicz, sort literature for canvassers at the party's Whitewater office.
Hours after the U.S. Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday, President Donald Trump implored his supporters to turn out in large numbers for the November mid-term elections, both to punish Democrats for their opposition to Kavanaugh, and to ensure that Republicans keep control of both the U.S. House and Senate. "We'll have a chance in just four weeks to render your verdict on the Democrats' conduct at the ballot box," the President said to loud cheers at a campaign rally in Topeka, Kansas.
The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to move forward Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, despite allegations of sexual misconduct that further inflamed a bitter partisan fight about the judge, but a few lawmakers could still derail his confirmation. Lawmakers backed President Donald Trump's nominee Kavanaugh by 51 to 49 in a procedural vote that moved the Republican-controlled Senate toward a definitive decision, likely to take place on Saturday.
Washington : Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as the 114th judge on the United States Supreme Court after a rancorous confirmation process that exposed the deep divisions within the country and the political establishment. The US Senate on Saturday confirmed Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans dismissed sexual assault accusations against the conservative judge and delivered a major victory to President Donald Trump.
The Austin American-Statesman reports the 2018 harvest is gearing up amid widespread anxiety over the price of the official Texas state nut. China - the top buyer of U.S. pecans - slapped a 47 percent tariff on them this summer as part of its broad effort to fight back against what it views as the Trump administration's hardball "America First" trade policies.
At some point during Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony last week, Marion Stanford grabbed a piece of wooden paneling, some paint and the $5 brushes she had purchased a while back. She brought the items back to her living room, where she had been glued to the television watching the drama unfold in the Senate that day.
In "Saturday Night Live's" second episode of the season, Brett Kavanaugh was once again the focus of the jest. In the cold open, Republican members of the Senate partied wildly after Kavanaugh was sworn in to the Supreme Court.
Senator Susan Collins announced she will vote yes to confirm embattled nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become a US Supreme Court Justice. Collins delivered a lengthy defense of Kavanaugh's record and decisions before finally announcing her support for the judge Friday when she took to the Senate Floor.
The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country's cultural, gender and political divides.