BRETT KAVANAUGH/HEARING/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought to put a bruising confirmation battle behind him on Monday [10-8-18] at a White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump declared him innocent of sexual misconduct and apologized for the heated process. Kavanaugh, whose bid to join the top U.S. court nearly failed after a California professor accused him of assaulting her when they were in high school, said he would enter his new job without bitterness despite a political fight that he told lawmakers had destroyed his family and his name…Kavanaugh, who served as part of special counsel Kenneth Starr’s team that investigated Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and testified that the sexual misconduct accusations were funded by left-wing groups seeking revenge on behalf of the Clintons, said the Supreme Court was not a partisan body.”
–Jeff Mason, “Kavanaugh seeks new tone after bitter court confirmation fight,” Reuters, October 8, 2018 4:51 pm