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Right Wing Round-Up: Another Kavanaugh Accuser

Tara Golshan @ Vox: A second woman comes forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Aidan McLaughlin @ Mediaite: Brett Kavanaugh Appearing on Fox News Tonight. Mary Papenfuss @ Huff Post: Ed Whelan Takes ‘Leave Of Absence’ From Ethics Group After Bizarre Kavanaugh Theory. Aa

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Right Wing Round-Up: Trump Can't Help Himself

Kate Riga @ TPM: Ed Whelan Apologizes For Naming Kavanaugh Classmate As Blasey Ford’s Alleged Attacker. Zack Ford @ Think Progress: Trump tweets: Dr. Ford must provide documentation of her assault. Kaili Joy Gray @ Shareblue: ‘Women’ for Kavanaugh are actually a bunch of men. Cristina López G.

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Anti-Choice Activists Demand Even Greater Ideological Purity In Trump’s SCOTUS Shortlist

Andrew Schlafly, a son of the late Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly, has been circulating an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to remove from his stated Supreme Court shortlist a number of potential justices who he says “lack a pro-life record.” The letter, which targets pot

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Conservative Groups Circle The Wagons On SCOTUS Obstruction

When the news broke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday, Republicans in the Senate almost immediately vowed to block the nomination of any person President Obama puts forward to fill the empty Supreme Court seat. Conservative groups quickly followed suit, putting forward various rationales