Confirmation

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  10-9-18
  

  Sean Wilentz says the Supreme Court’s legitimacy is now at stake

  by Sean Wilentz

  "After Kavanaugh’s performance and his strong-armed confirmation, the 5-to-4 decisions that ensue will at least clarify exactly what the long-term right-wing campaign has been all about.” (It’s not originalism.)

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• 10/21/18
  

  What Historians Could Teach Senators on the Judiciary Committee

  by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa G. Materson

  Women’s voices matter; those who want to know their experiences must train themselves to hear them.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Tar Heel
  10-10-18
  

  N.C. State historian Charles Ludington reflects on his Kavanaugh testimony

  "It was my civic duty.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-6-18
  

  The Senate has lost its way

  by Dov Weinryb Grohsgal

  With Sens. Jeff Flake and Susan Collins’s decision to vote for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on Friday, ensuring his confirmation, the case of Clement Haynsworth offers another important comparison.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-8-18
  

  The Kavanaughs of the Founding generation

  by Laura Ellyn Smith

  Even in the nation’s early days, accusations of sexual misconduct were treated as a political smear.

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• 10/14/18
  

  These 9 Justices Failed to Vote the Way Their Party Expected

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  But have we seen the last of their kind?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-8-18
  

  ‘Moral dry-rot’: The only Supreme Court justice who divided the Senate more than Kavanaugh

  Before Brett M. Kavanaugh, there was Stanley Matthews, whose confirmation was so fraught and divisive that it took a second nomination to cement his place on the Supreme Court.

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• SOURCE: Balkinization (blog)
  10-6-18
  

  The Vicious Entrenchment Circle: Thoughts on a Lifetime with a Republican-Controlled Court

  by Marty Lederman

  By the time the Court’s current Term ends in June, it will have been more than 50 years of GOP-appointed control.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-7-18
  

  Was the Kavanaugh Hearing the Worst Supreme Court Fight? You Be the Judge

  In the centuries since the court was established, about 16 percent of candidates submitted to the Senate never donned the coveted black robe — whether by outright rejection, withdrawal or deferring of the nomination.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  10-6-18
  

  Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Is The Most Partisan In Modern History

  The 50-48 tally continues a trend in which confirmations have devolved into strict party-line votes.