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NYT这篇写的有点意思
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved
WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh sat in the anteroom of Room 216 in
the Hart Senate Office Building, a sterile, living-room-like space with a
couch and a couple of armchairs and a large television on the wall. His
chances of joining the Supreme Court seemed to be vanishing. “Disaster,”
read the text message from one Republican.
Christine Blasey Ford had just finished testifying that he had tried to
force himself on her as a teenager, and nearly everyone in both camps found
her credible, sincere and sympathetic. President Trump called Senator Mitch
McConnell, the Republican leader, and they agreed she was impressive. “We’
re only at halftime,” Mr. McConnell said, trying to be reassuring.
Mr. Trump thought it was time to bring in the F.B.I. to investigate, as many
opponents of Judge Kavanaugh had urged, but when he called the Hart
Building, Donald F. McGahn II, his White House counsel, refused to take the
call. Instead, Mr. McGahn cleared the room and sat down with Judge Kavanaugh
and his wife, Ashley Kavanaugh. The only way to save his nomination, Mr.
McGahn said, was to show the senators how he really felt, to channel his
outrage and indignation at the charges he had denied.
Judge Kavanaugh did not need convincing. He was brimming with rage and
resentment, so when he went before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he did
not hold back. His fire-and-fury performance — “you have replaced ‘advice
and consent’ with search and destroy” — suddenly turned the tables.
While Democrats thought he went too far, demoralized Republicans were
emboldened again. In their war room, White House aides watching on
television cheered and pumped their fists.
The 90-day battle to install Judge Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court that ended
on Saturday with a razor-thin 50-to-48 vote proved to be the most dramatic
confirmation fight in a quarter-century, a showdown of epic proportions that
tested a president, drove a wedge through the Senate, gripped the nation,
touched off emotional protests and exposed the dark corners of America’s
struggle with sex and power.
At stake was nothing less than all three branches of government. In
replacing Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, for years the Supreme Court’s swing
vote, Judge Kavanaugh will almost surely move the high court to the right. A
backlash among Democratic voters, however, may move Congress to the left in
midterm elections just four weeks away. And Mr. Trump’s ability to
legislate in the last two years of his term will depend on the outcome.
War Without End
Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian
Town?
How Every Senator Voted on Kavanaugh’s Confirmation
The Senate voted 50-48 on Saturday to confirm the Supreme Court nomination
of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Oct. 6, 2018
This account of the fight, assembled through interviews with White House
officials, senators of both parties, staff members, lawyers and others
involved, some of whom did not want to be identified describing private
moments, showed that the nomination nearly unraveled at multiple junctures
along the way.
At one point, a dubious Mr. Trump asked Mr. McConnell if Senate Republicans
were really committed to seeing it through. Mr. McConnell said absolutely
yes.
“I’m stronger than mule piss” on this guy, he answered.
But the Republican determination despite the charges left raw feelings that
will not dissipate soon. “They are just blasting through one rule and one
tradition after another,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the
Democratic whip. “If that does not change, it is going to be hard to repair
the institutional damage here.”
Wariness of ‘a Bush Guy’
Mr. Trump was not especially enthusiastic about making Judge Kavanaugh his
second Supreme Court nominee in the first place. The judge’s prior service
as a White House aide to President George W. Bush made him suspect to Mr.
Trump, who did not relish the idea of “a Bush guy” as his choice. Indeed,
Mr. McConnell had warned against Judge Kavanaugh because of his paper trail,
viewing other candidates as more easily confirmed.
Aides, led by Mr. McGahn, convinced Mr. Trump that Judge Kavanaugh would be
the choice that would best suit the conservative movement, whose support has
meant so much to the president. But they anticipated that this fight would
be nastier, more brutal and more partisan than the one last year for Justice
Neil M. Gorsuch because the direction of the court would be at stake.
As a result, aides told the president that he had to be fully invested in
his selection and take a personal stake in his success. That was why even
after the formal interview, they arranged for Mr. Trump to have a second
meeting with Judge Kavanaugh, this one including their wives for nearly two
hours in the White House residence the night before the announcement in July.
The White House set up a larger operation than it did for Justice Gorsuch,
opening a war room on the fourth floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building with 11 lawyers and a couple of communications specialists aided by
a team of lawyers at the Justice Department. They treated it as if it were
a campaign, lining up more than 600 supportive statements and placing more
than 200 op-ed pieces, not just in national newspapers but in those from key
states like Maine, Arizona, Alaska and West Virginia. Outside groups on
both sides aired millions of dollars worth of advertising.
Mr. McGahn, who is stepping down after this nomination, devoted much of his
time to the battle, talking with Mr. McConnell nearly every day and calling
another half dozen senators most days. He and his team decided early on to
hitch their wagon to Mr. McConnell, at times intentionally walling
themselves off from the president and the White House.
They conducted more than a half-dozen mock hearings, including one that ran
for more than 12 hours, to prepare Judge Kavanaugh for the real thing. The
first set of hearings proved tough, as Democrats raised questions about his
candor on everything from Roe v. Wade to stolen Democratic memos, but the
nomination seemed on track.
The emergence of Dr. Blasey late in the process, however, upended their
plans. A psychology professor in California, Dr. Blasey, 51, told The
Washington Post that at a small party in the early 1980s, a drunken Mr.
Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her, tried to remove her clothing and
covered her mouth when she screamed.
When White House aides raised the issue with Judge Kavanaugh, he adamantly
denied it and told them he did not even remember her. The situation grew
worse a week later when The New Yorker published an interview with Deborah
Ramirez, 53, a Yale University classmate who said he once exposed his
genitals to her at a dormitory party. He denied that too.
At the White House, the mood was dark. For 24 hours, discouraged officials
wondered whether the nomination was sunk. They were encouraged that The New
York Times reported that it had interviewed several dozen people and could
find no one with firsthand knowledge about the Yale incident and that Ms.
Ramirez had told some classmates she could not be certain Judge Kavanaugh
was the one who had exposed himself.
After Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, Senate Republicans worried about
Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “Disaster,” one texted.CreditGabriella
Demczuk for The New York Times
Mr. Trump talked with Mr. McGahn and they agreed that Judge Kavanaugh had to
personally confront the charges immediately before support eroded among
Republicans. They did what had never been done in a Supreme Court
confirmation and put him on television to be interviewed, choosing Mr. Trump
’s favorite network, Fox News.
Judge Kavanaugh, joined by his wife, seemed flat and mechanical as he
retreated to the same talking points denying the allegations. Mr. Trump, who
styles himself a master of television, thought his nominee came across as
weak. Getting the clip of him denying the charges into the media spin cycle
was important, but it was not enough.
Aides insisted that Mr. Trump never considered dumping Judge Kavanaugh. “
This is a president that refuses to pull the rip cord and parachute down
when the naysayers and critics tell him you can’t do it, that won’t work,
it’s destined to failure,” said Kellyanne Conway, his counselor. “He’s
determined to stick with Plan A. He never had a Plan B with Kavanaugh.”
Mr. McConnell said that the issue of pulling Judge Kavanaugh came up but
that he was never concerned that Mr. Trump would withdraw the nomination. “
No, we talked about it,” he said. “These issues are very controversial. We
had numerous conversations about it through the course of time, but he hung
in there.”
‘This Was a Turning Point’
The tide seemed to turn, oddly enough, when a third woman emerged with even
more extreme allegations. Michael Avenatti, a brash and media savvy
California lawyer who has been careening from one Trump administration brush
fire to another, produced a statement from a woman alleging that Judge
Kavanaugh in high school attended parties where women were gang raped. The
woman, Julie Swetnick, said she was herself gang raped at one such party,
though not by the judge.
Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, rushed to the
floor to insist that “Judge Kavanaugh should withdraw from consideration.”
Calls to the office of the Judiciary Committee chairman, Charles E. Grassley
of Iowa, were running strongly against Judge Kavanaugh before the hearing,
but turned in his favor afterward.CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York
Times
Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a key swing Republican, was so troubled that
she took a copy of Ms. Swetnick’s statement, highlighted and marked up, to
a meeting of Republican committee chairmen. Senator John Cornyn of Texas
went through it point by point with her to debunk it.
The Republican senators got into a lengthy conversation about Mr. Avenatti
and how he could not be trusted and concluded that Ms. Swetnick’s claims
did not add up. Why would she as a college student repeatedly go to high
school parties where young women were gang raped? No one came forward to
corroborate the allegation, and news reports surfaced about past lawsuits in
which Ms. Swetnick’s truthfulness was questioned.
“This was a turning point,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of
South Carolina. “That allegation was so over the top, it created a moment
that was scary, quite frankly. But that moment was quickly replaced by
disgust.”
The involvement of Mr. Avenatti, who represents Stephanie Clifford, the
former porn star known as Stormy Daniels, particularly galvanized
Republicans, reinforcing the idea that the allegations against Judge
Kavanaugh were a political setup. One Republican congressional official
called Mr. Avenatti’s involvement “manna from heaven.” From the other
side, a Democratic congressional official called it “massively unhelpful.”
Mr. Durbin agreed that he “looked at it with a degree of skepticism,” but
he said that the notion that Mr. Avenatti tipped the scale was “wishful
thinking” by Republicans who were bent on confirming Judge Kavanaugh at all
costs.
In an interview on Friday, Mr. Avenatti rejected the idea that his
involvement was a factor. “It’s a bunch of nonsense that somehow I had
anything to do with the end result here being negative,” he said. He
credited Ms. Swetnick’s story with forcing Republicans to request an
abbreviated F.B.I. investigation. “If it would have just been Dr. Ford,”
he said, “I don’t think the investigation takes place.”
Rallying the Republicans
The moment of maximum danger, that hour after Dr. Blasey’s testimony on
Sept. 27, sent a panic through Republican circles. Some in the White House
and on Capitol Hill began privately speculating about when Judge Kavanaugh
might withdraw. Dr. Blasey appeared so human, so guileless, so believable
that even Mr. Trump called her “very credible.”
But Judge Kavanaugh’s angry outburst rallied Republicans. He went so far in
expressing rage that he blamed the allegations on a plot to take “revenge
on behalf of the Clintons” and he sharply challenged two of the Democratic
senators about their own drinking. During a break, Mr. McGahn told him he
had to dial it back and strike a calmer tone. When he returned to the
committee room, Judge Kavanaugh moderated his anger and apologized to one of
the senators.
When Mr. Durbin asked Judge Kavanaugh to turn around and ask Mr. McGahn to
request an F.B.I. investigation into the charges against him, Mr. Graham
erupted in a ferocious, finger-wagging lecture. Other Republican senators
began channeling their inner Trump and lashing out on Judge Kavanaugh’s
behalf as well.
Republican senators met that night just off the Capitol Rotunda. Ms. Collins
said she would find it hard to vote yes without a sworn statement from
Judge Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge denying that he saw what Dr. Blasey
described. Aides to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Judiciary
chairman, got a fresh statement from Mr. Judge within three hours to satisfy
her.
Mr. Graham went to dinner that night at Cafe Berlin with Ms. Collins and two
other undecided Republicans, Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska. They discussed whether a limited F.B.I. investigation
might assuage them.
The next morning, Mr. Flake announced that he would vote for Judge Kavanaugh
in committee, only to change course after being confronted on an elevator
by women who told him they were victims of sexual assault. Ms. Collins and
Ms. Murkowski were already talking by phone when Mr. Flake called them from
a committee anteroom asking if they would back him in demanding a one-week F
.B.I. inquiry.
Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, called for an F.B.I.
investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh
before he would confirm his vote.CreditErin Schaff for The New York Times
Later that day, the three joined other Republican senators in Mr. McConnell
’s office to discuss what the F.B.I. investigation should look like. The
three undecided Republicans settled on four people they wanted to hear from:
Ms. Ramirez, Mr. Judge and two others identified by Dr. Blasey as being
elsewhere in the house at the time she was allegedly assaulted.
That list, however, later struck Democrats as so constrained that they
demanded a more expansive investigation. In the end, the F.B.I. interviewed
10 people, but not many others Democrats recommended.
The Final Decisions
Ms. Murkowski was struggling with what to do. She asked the committee staff
to question Judge Kavanaugh’s friends about their understanding of terms
from his yearbook like “boofing” and “Devil’s Triangle” to see if they
matched his.
“It was hard reconciling my heart and my head this week,” she said later.
“It has just been long. I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep. I haven’t eaten
very well. I’m not a junk food person.”
Among those she heard from was Mr. Bush, who while no fan of Mr. Trump’s
intervened nonetheless on behalf of his former aide, Judge Kavanaugh. The
former president also called Ms. Collins three times as well as Mr. Flake
and other Republicans.
If Mr. Flake was moved by the protesters, though, other Republicans were not
. Some like Mr. McConnell and Mr. Graham got their backs up.
A television screen showed Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine,
explaining her decision to vote for Judge Kavanaugh.CreditGabriella Demczuk
for The New York Times
“The tactics that were used completely backfired,” said Mr. McConnell. “
Harassing members at their homes, crowding the halls with people acting
horribly, the effort to humiliate us really helped me unify my conference.
So I want to thank these clowns for all the help they provided.”
Less helpful may have been Mr. Trump’s decision to mock Dr. Blasey during a
rally in Mississippi on Tuesday night, mimicking her telling senators she
did not recall certain details about the alleged assault. Aides and senators
had been urging him not to attack her directly for fear of alienating the
very undecided senators he needed, and, indeed, Mr. Flake, Ms. Murkowski and
Ms. Collins all condemned his remarks. But White House aides insisted that
the president’s outburst fortified Republicans.
After the F.B.I. delivered results of its inquiry to the Senate, Ms. Collins
and Ms. Murkowski holed up in the secure room on Thursday poring through
the confidential material. Ms. Collins spent nearly five hours reading all
of the interview summaries and reams of raw material from the F.B.I.’s tip
line. Ms. Murkowski returned to the secure room as late as 10:30 at night to
go through it again, after meeting earlier in the day with sexual assault
survivors.
On Friday, the Senate gathered to take its procedural vote to move toward
final confirmation. This was the moment of truth. Ms. Murkowski voted
against Judge Kavanaugh, saying he was not the right man at this time for
the Supreme Court. Mr. Flake voted yes.
Mr. McConnell and Mr. Cornyn were having lunch in the Senate Dining Room
during a break when Ms. Collins came in. They invited her to join them and
she disclosed that she too would vote yes on final confirmation. She later
delivered a 45-minute floor speech explaining that the allegations simply
were not corroborated.
Mr. Grassley, the committee chairman, was in tears and retreated to a
cloakroom to collect himself. So were many others, but theirs were tears of
anger and frustration, many of them women who thought their voices had not
been heard.
The final vote came on an overcast Saturday afternoon. The suspense was gone
, but the emotion was not. Right after the final tally was read by Vice
President Mike Pence, presiding in his role as president of the Senate, a
woman yelled from the gallery: “This is a stain on American history. Do you
understand that?”
One level down, off the floor of the Senate, Mr. McGahn and White House
aides assembled in the vice president’s office. Aides to Mr. Grassley and
Mr. McConnell gathered in the leader’s suite for a celebratory toast.
When Mr. Pence walked down the long marble steps toward his motorcade,
hundreds of protesters, framed by the Supreme Court in the background,
chanted, “Vote them out!”
Justice Kavanaugh will report to work in the building behind them on Monday,
his fate settled but the battle still not settled at all.
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NYT是告诉作弊,你可以low, 但不要low得太离谱。turning point是那个妓女律师,
一个大学生还参加了那么多次被高中生轮奸的party, 太离谱了。GOP这之后开始
unify. 然后Flake也是授权了要求一个星期的FBI调查,这一个星期对K太有利了。

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【在 S*******i 的大作中提到】
: NYT这篇写的有点意思
: http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
: Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved
: WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh sat in the anteroom of Room 216 in
: the Hart Senate Office Building, a sterile, living-room-like space with a
: couch and a couple of armchairs and a large television on the wall. His
: chances of joining the Supreme Court seemed to be vanishing. “Disaster,”
: read the text message from one Republican.
: Christine Blasey Ford had just finished testifying that he had tried to
: force himself on her as a teenager, and nearly everyone in both camps found

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DA 太强了 一般人真骗不过他们Corker也要求推迟投票了
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