I hear that the administration is requesting $51.8 billion in supplemental spending to pay for Katrina recovery. Fifty billion will go to FEMA.
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Third Named Witness Rejects Kavanaugh’s Accuser’s Allegations
In written testimony sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a third named witness has rejected the allegations made by Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser. Having been asked by a Senate staffer to comment on the charges advanced against the nominee, a lawyer for Leland Ingham Keyser wrote:
Under 18 U.S.C § 1001, ...
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On The New Yorker’s Grossly Irresponsible Story
Judge Kavanaugh labels The New Yorker’s report a "smear, plain and simple." He should be applauded for his restraint. I am struggling to remember reading a less responsible piece of “journalism” in a major outlet.
The piece starts out not with a summary of the story, but with the news that Democrats in ...
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Kavanaugh to Give Senate Calendar Supporting Denial of Allegations
Judge Brett Kavanaugh plans to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee his calendar from 1982, which supports his claim to have never attended a party like the one Christine Blasey Ford described, the New York Times reported Sunday.
While it does not disprove Ford's allegations, the calendar indicates that ...
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Rod Rosenstein’s Resistance
Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:
The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. . . ...
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Fight for Kavanaugh
The cynics — or, perhaps more precisely, the realists — believed that the Democrats were playing for time in the hopes of finding another accusation against Brett Kavanaugh. The cynics were right.
The New Yorker stooped to publish a shoddy story alleging that Kavanaugh exposed himself to a woman while he ...
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Long-Time Friend of Christine Blasey Ford Contradicts Her on Party
A friend of the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has denied that she was at the party where the alleged assault occurred.
The Senate Judiciary Committee reached out to Leland Ingham Keyser, a friend of Christine Blasey Ford. Ford claims Kavanaugh pinned her to a ...
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Trump Stands By ‘Fantastic’ Kavanaugh
President Trump was supportive of his nominee to the Supreme Court during a radio interview set to be broadcast on Monday morning, in which he characterized Brett Kavanaugh as a “fantastic, fantastic man” and called into question allegations of sexual assault.
In the interview — recorded on Sunday, ...
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