Early Addition: Spineless Hypocrite Jeff Flake Confronted By Sexual Assault Survivors Over Kavanaugh Vote

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• Jeff Flake announced he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.
• Then Flake was confronted by sexual assault survivors: "Don't look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land."
• Lindsay Graham is a cruel little man who was too cowardly to question Dr. Ford yesterday, but willing to say this on Fox News: "Everything I believed I knew about Brett Kavanaugh, I am now more convinced than ever that he didn’t do it, that he’s the right guy to be on the court, that Ms. Ford has got a problem, and destroying Judge Kavanaugh’s life won’t fix her problem."
• Kavanaugh's former Yale classmate called out his "blatant" lying: "There is no doubt in my mind that while at Yale, he was a big partier, often drank to excess, and there had to be a number of nights where he does not remember."
• The American Bar Association is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to halt the consideration of Kavanaugh until after an FBI investigation.
• Kavanaugh has become a hero to the misogynist incel crowd, which seems appropriate.
• The New Yorker reports: emails show that Republican Senate staff stymied a Kavanaugh accuser's effort to give testimony. "I’ve never encountered an instance where the Committee has refused even to speak with an individual or counsel. I am perplexed as to why this is happening here."
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