DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “California Sen. Kamala Harris — a potential 2020 presidential candidate — pushed President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to answer uncomfortable questions about abortion rights, Trump’s reaction to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally and his conversations with attorneys at the law firm representing Trump…Harris, a former California attorney general, was the last Democrat to ask questions in Wednesday’s [9-5-18] marathon hearing. But she broke new ground on some issues — and prodded Kavanaugh on Trump’s politics, too. She pointed to Kavanaugh’s claim, after being nominated for the Supreme Court, that no one had run a vetting process ‘more wisely’ than Trump…After questions about laws protecting minorities’ voting rights, she also pressed Kavanaugh on whether he agrees with Trump’s claim that ‘both sides’ were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville last year.”
–Eric Bradner, “Kamala Harris asks Kavanaugh if he thinks there is blame on both sides for Charlottesville violence,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 5, 2018 11:06 pm