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Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Friday said she would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, ending months of speculation from the crucial swing senator.
“Mr. President, I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh,” Collins said at the very end of a nearly 45-minute long speech on the Senate floor.
Minutes after Collins’ speech concluded, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said that he, too, would vote for Kavanaugh.
“Based on all of the information I have available to me, including the recently completed FBI report, I have found Judge Kavanaugh to be a qualified jurist who will follow the Constitution and determine cases based on the legal findings before him,” Manchin said in a statement. [Read More]
Hundreds of anti-Kavanaugh protesters flooded the Senate office buildings Thursday to scream at senators, chant, sing and hold signs. One of the acts of protest that occurred was a large sit-in held in the Hart Senate office building. Approximately 300 protesters gathered together in a large atrium and chanted anti-Kavanaugh slogans at one another. There were two well-known celebrities that joined them.
Comedian Amy Schumer and model Emily Ratajkowski were among them. A massive banner was unfurled from a balcony that read “We Believe Christine Basley Ford” as dozens of Capitol Police moved into the crowd. [Read More]
Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement (WSJ)
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal… [Read More]
Marco Rubio: Voting Against Kavanaugh ‘Will Forever Be Perceived As a Verdict of Guilt’ (Mediaite)
Senators today in their remarks on the floor are making clear their intentions for tomorrow’s final vote on whether or not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court Justice. Sen. Marco Rubio(R-FL), in announcing his intent to vote yes, argued that voting any other way would have been perceived as “a verdict of guilt” in the allegations of sexual assault made against the nominee.
He also offered a very small caveat to his yes vote, similar to Sen. Jeff Flake‘s remarks about “something big”, when he hedged against evidence emerging in the interim to support those claims. [Read More]
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