BRETT KAVANAUGH/FBI/GOP/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senator Mitch McConnell had just arrived at Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday [10-1-18] afternoon to resume the battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh when he was met by an unwelcoming committee — a group of women who angrily confronted him…Mr. McConnell is not Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, who was moved by similar protests to seek a new F.B.I. inquiry into claims of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh. Mr. McConnell, undeterred by his critics, instead stared straight ahead and marched through the concourse. And that is exactly how he is approaching the confirmation fight — marching straight ahead, unfazed by his opponents, toward his goal of seating Judge Kavanaugh on the court…Underscoring his commitment, Mr. McConnell took the procedural steps later Wednesday to set up a key test vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation for Friday [10-5-18]. To Mr. McConnell, his nearly singular duty these days is filling federal court vacancies with conservatives, so with a second Supreme Court confirmation in less than two years in sight, he has a lot on the line. If he is successful, he will have secured a legacy of reshaping not just the lower courts, but the Supreme Court itself for years to come.”
–Carl Hulse and Jonathan Martin, “With a Transformed Judiciary in Sight, McConnell ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’,” The New York Times online, October 3, 2018