GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said on Monday [9-24-18] he would not step aside after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago, with President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans showing no signs of relenting in their push for his Senate confirmation…The allegations, dating back to the 1980s, have put in jeopardy Kavanaugh’s chances of winning confirmation to the top U.S. court in a Senate narrowly controlled by Trump’s party, with high-stakes congressional elections just weeks away. Confirmation of the federal appeals court judge to the lifetime job would cement conservative control of the Supreme Court and advance Trump’s goal of moving the high court and the broader federal judiciary to the right. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday for Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who last week accused him of sexual assault in 1982. Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, said Kavanaugh attacked her and tried to remove her clothing while he was drunk at a party when he was 17 years old and she was 15 when they were high school students in Maryland.”
–Richard Cowan, Lawrence Hurley, “Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh rejects ‘false accusations’,” Reuters, September 24, 2018 6:15 am