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Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by Judge Judy Sheindlin, a retired Manhattan family court judge.[2]

[Note that unlike what some Americans believe, not only is Judge Judy Sheindlin not a Federal judge, she is not on the Supreme Court, either]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Judy

Undated: The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS[2]) is the highest federal court of the United States. Established pursuant to Article Three of the United States Constitution in 1789, it has ultimate (and largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of federal law plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is generally the final interpreter of federal law including the United States Constitution, but it may act only within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction. The Court may decide cases having political overtones but does not have power to decide nonjusticiable political questions, and its enforcement arm is in the executive rather than judicial branch of government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

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September 24: Trump's supreme court picks: from Tea Party senator to anti-abortion crusader

Among 10 new names, one is an originalist, one a judicial traditionalist … and one said firing a hygienist for ‘tempting’ a dentist was not unlawful discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/sep/24/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominations-names

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March 30: Democrats planning to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans  have  said  that  could  force  their hand  to  try  one  avenue  to  get  around  a block:  the  nuclear  option ...  a  change in Senate  rules  that would  lower  the  threshold  to  end  a  filibuster  to  51  from 60. Republicans, who number 52 in the Senate, could then easily end the filibuster. ... Members on both sides of the aisle are worried that  it's all  a  slippery  slope  that  leads  to lowering  the  threshold  for  legislation,  which would make it smooth  sailing  for  whatever party is in power.  http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/republicans-on-nuclear-option/

April 3: Four Senate Democrats announced Monday they plan to oppose Neil Gorsuch, bringing the Democratic caucus to the 41 votes needed to sustain a filibuster against the Supreme Court nominee.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/03/politics/neil-gorsuch-filibuster-senate/index.html

April 7: The Senate Thursday triggered the so-called "nuclear option" that allowed Republicans to break a Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/senate-nuclear-option-neil-gorsuch/index.html

April 7: The Senate Friday morning confirmed Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal judge who could help cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades, to the Supreme Court, according to a CNN count of the vote.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/neil-gorsuch-senate-vote/index.html

Undated: Americans deserve elected officials that are beholden to voters, not outside influences or their own personal financial interests ....
http://www.commoncause.org/take-action/act/stop-donald-trumps-conflicts-of-interest-blind-trust.html?gclid=CP_MmsCPvtMCFQIQaQod3a4Kcg

November 17: President Donald J. Trump’s Supreme Court List
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-supreme-court-list/

December 4: Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.

This is not a final ruling on the travel ban: Challenges to the policy are winding through the federal courts, and the justices themselves ultimately are expected to rule on its legality.

But the action indicates that the high court might eventually approve the latest version of the ban, announced by President Donald Trump in September. Lower courts have continued to find problems with the policy.
https://www.apnews.com/b8244def36484dfb93fd958962b7d649/Supreme-Court-allows-full-enforcement-of-Trump-travel-ban

December 20: Eight months into his lifetime U.S. Supreme Court appointment, Neil Gorsuch has given every indication through his votes in key cases and remarks from the bench he will be a stalwart of the conservative legal agenda, as President Donald Trump promised.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-gorsuch/trumps-supreme-court-appointee-gorsuch-plots-rightward-course-idUSKBN1EE0IJ

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January 18: Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to rule on Trump's right to end DACA ... during the current court term, in which cases are typically decided by June.

The filing argues that an order issued by a San Francisco-based federal judge last week requiring officials to resume accepting renewals from DACA participants was legally flawed.

In an unusual move, Solicitor General Noel Francisco is asking the justices for permission to bypass the usual process of appeal to the regional circuit court — in this instance the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/18/trump-justice-department-supreme-court-daca-349083

January 19: Supreme Court to issue final verdict on Trump travel ban

"The Supreme Court has the power to end a disgraceful chapter in American history, during which President Trump has ignored the Constitution and our fundamental values of religious freedom and fairness," said Richard Katskee, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has participated in various lawsuits challenging the travel ban.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/19/supreme-court-issue-final-verdict-trump-travel-ban/1038126001/

January 22: In a hit to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that cases litigating the Clean Water Act should be heard by federal district courts.

The administration had argued those cases should be heard in federal appeals courts.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case over an Obama-era regulation, known as the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, back in January 2017, after debate as to whether the U.S. Court of Appeals or federal district courts had the authority to hear the lawsuits from industry groups and states that say the rule went too far.

Dozens of parties had filed lawsuits over the regulation in both federal appeals courts and district courts.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370103-supreme-court-rules-against-trump-administration-on-clean-water

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January 25: Will the Supreme Court Back Trump’s Third Attempt at a Travel Ban?

Just days after his inauguration last year, Donald Trump took action to fulfill his campaign promise of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

As word spread of the chaotic implementation of the cruel order, resistance galvanized. Cabdrivers in New York City—many of them foreign nationals themselves—boycotted international arrivals in solidarity with the detained travelers.

Volunteer lawyers, both under the auspices of nonprofit organizations and acting on their own, sped to the airports to lend assistance. Clients were signed up and lawsuits filed. Court victories followed quickly.
http://www.newsweek.com/will-supreme-court-back-trumps-third-attempt-travel-ban-790740

February 1: After legal setbacks, Trump administration races to Supreme Court

When President Donald Trump’s administration took its fight to end a controversial immigration program directly to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, skipping over a California federal appeals court in the process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said it was a “rare step” to ensure a quick and fair resolution. 

The Trump administration’s Supreme Court strategy has grown out of repeated setbacks at the district and circuit court levels.

Many of Trump’s most significant executive actions, in areas including immigration, transgender rights, energy and the environment, have been at least temporarily blocked by courts. The rulings have often been applied nationwide, not just where the lawsuits were filed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-analysis/after-legal-setbacks-trump-administration-races-to-supreme-court-idUSKBN1FL4TH

February 19: President Trump-appointed Neil Gorsuch holds the key vote in a case to be heard next week over whether public-sector unions should require people who don't want to be union members to pay for collective bargaining, the AP reports.

Why it matters:
Unions are major financial backers of Democratic candidates and causes across the country, and a rebuke from Gorsuch would deal a crushing blow to organized labor. Even though Trump overwhelmingly won support from white working-class voters, he had expressed support for the right-to-work movement. Per Politico, his administration sides with the plaintiff who's challenging the "fair-share fees." The Supreme Court had reached a 4-4 deadlock in 2016 on the issue following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
https://www.axios.com/neil-gorsuch-holds-key-vote-labor-union-fee-case-ac05dcdb-c4b3-45b3-94b5-d21761f0ea97.html

February 21: Supreme Court Gets Moving, Issuing As Many Decisions In One Day As It Has In 5 Months
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/21/587733571/supreme-court-gets-moving-issuing-as-many-decisions-in-one-day-as-it-has-in-5-mo

February 26: Gorsuch silent as court sharply divided on union fees ... The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sharply divided in a case pitting organized labor against conservative groups in a case that could deal a potentially crippling blow to public sector unions -- and hurt their Democratic Party allies.

The court's four liberals seemed to back the unions' position. Conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito, appeared ready to rule against the unions and maybe even overturn the court's 41-year-old precedent. Justice Clarence Thomas didn't speak but he is expected to rule against the unions.

But conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch did not ask one question.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/unions-supreme-court/index.html

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March 27: Supreme Court takes new look at partisan gerrymandering

At issue: How much partisanship is too much in a process that has always been manipulated by political parties in the majority?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-takes-new-look-partisan-gerrymandering-n860121

May 14: The Supreme Court’s sports-betting ruling has major implications for states’ rights.

In a 7-2 decision on Monday, the justices struck down a federal law that forbade most states from allowing gambling on sports. The court held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) went too far by intruding on state legislative powers.

New Jersey, which challenged PASPA by passing a sports-betting law in 2012, argued that Congress violated the Tenth Amendment’s “anti-commandeering” principle by telling state legislatures which laws they could or could not pass. The Supreme Court agreed. “Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court. “Our job is to interpret the law Congress has enacted and decide whether it is consistent with the Constitution. PASPA is not.”
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148410/michael-avenatti-isnt-liberal-hero-hes-lawyer

May 21: In a victory for employers and the Trump administration, the Supreme Court on Monday said that employers could block employees from banding together as a class to fight legal disputes in employment arbitration agreements.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion for the 5-4 majority, his first major opinion since joining the court last spring and a demonstration of how the Senate Republicans' move to keep liberal nominee Merrick Garland from being confirmed in 2016 has helped cement a conservative court.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/politics/supreme-court-nlra-arbitration-gorsuch/index.html

May 29: The Supreme Court curbed law enforcement's power to search automobiles without a warrant on Tuesday, holding that if a vehicle is located on private property adjacent to a house police will generally need to meet a higher burden before searching it.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the 8-1 opinion, sending the case back down to a lower court to determine whether there may have been other justifications for the warrant-less search.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/supreme-court-curbs-ability-to-search-automobiles-without-a-warrant/

June 27: Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to retire, announced Wednesday, will push an already-conservative Supreme Court even further to the right if President Trump’s eventual nominee gets confirmed.

Justice Kennedy’s decision rocked those who care about abortion rights, racial discrimination, LGBTQ rights, and many other issues.
https://thinkprogress.org/dems-respond-kennedy-retirement-6f900e7f355d/

June 28: President Trump met with a bipartisan group of six senators at the White House Thursday night to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the looming retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/28/trump-meets-with-lawmakers-to-discuss-supreme-court-vacancy.html

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July 10: Trump Picked Kavanaugh. How Will He Change the Supreme Court?

Top legal thinkers weigh the record of Brett Kavanaugh, the likely replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/09/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-218963

July 10: Judge Brett Kavanaugh's radically expansive view of the power of the presidency
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-brett-kavanaugh-radically-expansive-view-power-presidency/story?id=56488216

July 10: These Brett Kavanaugh Presidential Power Quotes Might Be Music To Trump's Ears
https://www.bustle.com/p/these-brett-kavanaugh-presidential-power-quotes-might-be-music-to-trumps-ears-9711071

July 25: Democrats are struggling to find an opening in their fight to sink Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

They can’t block the nominee on their own, but they’re under intense pressure from liberals to wage a full-scale attack against Kavanaugh as they try to sway the one or two Republicans needed to sink President Trump’s pick and score a major victory heading into the midterm elections.

In the roughly two weeks since Kavanaugh was announced as Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, Democrats have jumped from abortion and the Affordable Care Act to what his past writings on executive authority could mean for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398704-dems-struggle-on-kavanaugh

July 29: Feinstein, other Senate Dems have plan on Brett Kavanaugh nomination: Stall
https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Feinstein-other-Senate-Dems-have-plan-on-Brett-13115222.php

July 30: When a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act reached his Washington, DC, appeals court in 2011, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was careful not to commit. He described the law requiring people to buy health insurance as "unprecedented" and the breadth of Obama administration's defense of it "jarring."

"[T]here seems no good reason," wrote Kavanaugh, now President Donald Trump's choice for the US Supreme Court, "that [the administration's] theory would not ultimately extend as well to mandatory purchases of retirement accounts, housing accounts, college savings accounts, disaster insurance, disability insurance, and life insurance, for example."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/brett-kavanaugh-obamacare-joe-manchin/index.html

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September 1: Democrats on Saturday slammed what they described as a “Friday night document massacre” after the White House withheld more than 100,000 pages of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s records, citing presidential privilege.

"... President Trump’s decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover-up.”  
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/01/democrats-decry-friday-night-document-massacre-as-white-house-withholds-kavanaugh-docs.html

September 2: The Senate’s final verdict on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – whose high-stakes, high-wire confirmation hearing begins Tuesday – will hinge on the views of just a handful of lawmakers.

As it stands, Republicans hold a razor-thin, 50-49 majority with one vacancy. Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey will soon appoint a successor to the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., but even then the GOP majority can suffer few defections.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/in-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight-just-handful-senators-hold-key.html

September 6: Brett Kavanaugh's views on abortion received fresh scrutiny after leaked documents revealed President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee once suggested the high court could reverse the landmark case ensuring the right to an abortion.

The email, which was previously off limits for the hearings, appeared to undercut Kavanaugh’s attempts to sidestep one of the most sensitive issues in his confirmation battle: whether he would provide the fifth vote to limit or overturn Roe v. Wade. But halfway through his second and final day of questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kavanaugh kept brushing aside new questions about his approach to abortion.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/06/kavanaugh-leaked-documents-abortion-771591

September 6: Sen. Cory Booker told Brett Kavanaugh during Thursday's hearing he was willing to "knowingly violate" the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee — and risk his position — in order to make the public aware of an email from the Supreme Court nominee on the issue of racial profiling.

Booker, D-N.J., again claimed the committee was "rushing" the hearings before everyone was able to thoroughly read and digest thousands of Kavanaugh-related documents provided to members, especially the batch of 42,000 released Monday night, the day before the hearings kicked off.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/06/bookers-kavanaugh-email-release-during-supreme-court-hearing-draws-fiery-responses-from-senators.html

September 6: Some Democrats have suggested that if Kavanaugh -- who is being questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week -- is confirmed to the high court, it could spell the end of Roe v. Wade and represent an assault on women's reproductive rights.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) even tweeted that it's not hyperbole to say that "women are going to die."

"When you criminalize abortion and limit our reproductive health care, women die," the rumored 2020 hopeful tweeted Wednesday.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/09/06/kirsten-gillibrand-women-are-going-die-if-brett-kavanaugh-confirmed-supreme-court

September 7: Report Finds Judge Kavanaugh Ruled Against Public Interest in Almost All of His District Court Cases
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/5/report_finds_judge_kavanaugh_ruled_against

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September 13: Committee vote delayed for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to next week
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/politics/kavanaugh-nomination-judiciary-committee/

September 14: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday denied allegations made by a woman who reportedly said that he had held her down at a party when they were in high school in the 1980s and tried to force himself on her.

According to a report Friday in The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, the woman, who has asked not to be identified, described the incident in a letter that was sent to the offices of two California Democrats, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Anna Eshoo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kavanaugh-denies-allegations-woman-who-says-he-tried-force-himself-n909626

September 17: President Donald Trump’s first instinct after learning the identity of the woman who claims Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school was to fight back, displaying what one Republican close to the White House described as a “bring it on” attitude.

Instead, the president followed the advice of top White House attorney Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and stayed out of the rapidly escalating #MeToo scandal, which has thrown Trump’s second Supreme Court nomination into turmoil just weeks before Republicans had hoped to have Kavanaugh seated on the bench – and in the crucial run-up to the midterm elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/trump-kavanaugh-defense-826312

September 17: Orrin Hatch Says Kavanaugh Was Not at the Party in Question
https://www.redstate.com/tladuke/2018/09/17/breaking-orrin-hatch-says-kavanaugh-not-party-question/

September 17: Who Is Christine Blasey Ford, The Woman Accusing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault?
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648803684/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-the-woman-accusing-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assaul

September 17: Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations, but his accuser, [Professor] Christine Blasey Ford, says there was one other person in the room when the alleged incident took place: Kavanaugh's then-classmate, Mark Judge.

Judge, a journalist and filmmaker, has also denied that the incident took place.

Judge wrote the book "Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk," where he details his experiences of extensive drinking while attending Georgetown Preparatory School.

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Judge writes that he is "shocked" about what he got away with in high school -- recalling beach parties that hundreds of people would attend.

At another point he describes his high school as "positively swimming in alcohol."

Judge also references a "Bart O'Kavanaugh," who he writes vomited in someone's car. It has not been confirmed whether this is a reference to Kavanaugh. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/mark-judge-brett-kavanaugh-high-school/index.html

September 17: President Donald Trump on Monday defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school, praising him as "one of the finest people" and signaling that he supports a proposed hearing on the allegations. http://www.inforum.com/news/government-and-politics/4500443-trump-defends-kavanaugh-after-sexual-assault-allegation

September 17: Kavanaugh And Accuser To Testify Publicly Before Senators Next Week
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648663337/kavanaugh-vote-could-face-delay

September 19: Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford demands 'full investigation' by FBI before testifying, in letter from her lawyers
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/19/kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford-demands-full-investigation-by-fbi-before-testifying-in-letter-from-her-lawyers.html

September 20: White House aides who steeled themselves for what President Donald Trump would say when he finally addressed the sexual assault allegation against his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were quietly stunned when Trump said the process should be followed and the accuser should be heard.

In recent days, Trump has bragged about the positive coverage he's received for his response, according to multiple sources. That response has contributed to him continuing to say Christine Blasey Ford should come forward with her story, they said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/politics/donald-trump-kavanaugh-accuser/index.html

September 21: President Donald Trump, in a series of tweets Friday, deviated from his previously measured comments about the woman who has accused his Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, claiming that if the attack she alleges "was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities".

Those who work closely with the President say he has privately voiced suspicion about the #MeToo movement and complained that decades-old allegations could ruin men's lives in an instant. The President himself stands accused of various levels of sexual misconduct by 15 women, all of which he has denied
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-tweets/index.html

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September 22: A press adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

Garrett Ventry, 29, who served as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156

September 23: Sen. Mazie Hirono on Sunday suggested that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's "outcome-driven" conservative judicial philosophy directly undermines the credibility of his denials that he sexually assaulted California professor Christine Ford at a house party more than three decades ago.

"I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases," Hirono told host Jake Tapper, in response to a question about whether Kavanaugh was entitled to a presumption of innocence. "His credibility is already very questionable in my mind. ...  When I say that he's very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to be fair."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/23/top-democrat-cites-kavanaughs-outcome-driven-legal-philosophy-as-reason-to-deny-him-due-process.html

September 24: Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
https://apnews.com/ca62798d66554461876a42cceb6eac19

September 24: Both allegations against Kavanaugh involve incidents that allegedly occurred when he and his accusers were heavily drinking as teenagers. 

Psychology researcher and Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford, 51, alleges that Kavanaugh and his Georgetown Preparatory School classmate Mark Judge locked her in a bedroom at a party in 1982. She said Kavanaugh held her down, put his hand over her mouth to silence her, and tried to remove her clothes. Ford's attorney Debra Katz said her client considers the alleged incident to be an "attempted rape." 

Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh's, claims that he exposed himself to her and shoved his penis in her face at a dorm room party in their freshman year at the Ivy League school. She said they were playing a drinking game at the time and admits there are gaps in her memory of that night. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-what-we-know-supreme-court/1408474002/

September 24: [Ramirez] recalled another male student shouting about the incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said.

A classmate of Ramirez’s, who declined to be identified because of the partisan battle over Kavanaugh’s nomination, said that another student told him about the incident either on the night of the party or in the next day or two. ... “I’ve known this all along,” he said. “It’s been on my mind all these years when his name came up. It was a big deal.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez

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September 24: Brett Kavanaugh launched a bold effort to save his nomination to the US Supreme Court on Monday, lashing out at "smears" and a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" following the emergence of a new allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/politics/kavanaugh-new-allegation-supreme-court-future/index.html

September 24: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh listed himself as a “Renate Alumnius” in his Georgetown Preparatory School’s high school yearbook — an apparent reference to Renate Schroeder Dolphin, who attended a Catholic girls’ school nearby.

After Kavanaugh was first accused of sexual misconduct by Christine Blasey Ford, Dolphin joined more than 60 other women who knew Kavanaugh in high school and signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying “he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”

But now Dolphin has seen Kavanaugh’s yearbook page.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/woman-furious-with-brett-kavanaughs-renate-alumnius-listing-in-high-school-yearbook

September 24: Kavanaugh included "Renate Alumnius" as an entry in his high school yearbook page, and two of Kavanaugh's classmates told the Times the mentions of "Renate" were part of the high school football players' unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests.

When Dolphin, who attended a nearby Catholic girls' school and was then known as Renate Schroeder, signed the September 14 letter, the Times reports, she wasn't aware of the "Renate" yearbook references about herself on the pages of Kavanaugh and his football teammates.

"I don't know what 'Renate Alumnus' actually means. I can't begin to comprehend what goes through the minds of 17-year-old boys who write such things, but the insinuation is horrible, hurtful and simply untrue. I pray their daughters are never treated this way. I will have no further comment."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/politics/new-york-times-kavanaugh-renate-high-school-yearbook/index.html

September 24: Avenatti says more Kavanaugh accusations will go public within 48 hours: 'I state facts and have evidence to back it up'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/24/avenatti-says-more-kavanaugh-accusations-will-go-public-within-48-hours-state-facts-and-have-evidence-to-back-it-up.html

September 24: National Sexual Assault Hotline Sees Sharp Surge In Calls Amid Kavanaugh Allegations

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) reported a 42 percent increase in calls on Friday and Saturday.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rainn-national-sexual-assault-hotline-kavanaugh_us_5ba8b9a2e4b0375f8f9ebb02

September 25: Trump Defends Kavanaugh: ‘I Understand College Very Well’
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/trump-defends-kavanaugh-i-understand-college-very-well.html

September 25: With Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh facing multiple accusations of sexual assault and misconduct, President Donald Trump finds himself in a familiar place, falling back on familiar rhetoric.

“Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter.” the president tweeted Friday.

This is rich coming from a guy who has made more than 5,000 false or misleading claims since he took office.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-sex-allegations-donald-trump-denies-defends-column/1421084002/

September 26: The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a statement from a third woman who has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

The allegations, from a woman identified as Julie Swetnick, were made public by attorney Michael Avenatti on Wednesday morning.

Avenatti posted Swetnick's three-page sworn declaration on Twitter.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/651797758/judiciary-committee-review-new-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-kavanaugh?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180926&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

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September 26: Attorney Michael Avenatti, on the eve of Brett Kavanaugh's high-profile hearing to address sexual misconduct allegations, identified and released a "sworn declaration" from a woman who claims the Supreme Court nominee was involved in "gang" rapes in the early 1980s. 

Avenatti’s client was identified as Julie Swetnick, who further claims in the statement that Kavanaugh and a friend were "present" when she became a "victim of one of these 'gang' or 'train' rapes" in 1982.  
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/26/avenatti-releases-graphic-kavanaugh-allegations-calls-for-new-delay.html

September 26: Dem senator filing suit asking court to halt Kavanaugh confirmation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/26/dem-senator-filing-suit-asking-court-to-halt-kavanaugh-confirmation.html

September 28: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, set a committee vote on Kavanaugh for Friday afternoon, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned a full floor vote for early next week. 

Kavanaugh is poised to at least make it out of committee, with the late-breaking support of GOP Sen. Jeff Flake -- after the panel heard dramatic testimony from the nominee and Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her in 1982. 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/28/kavanaugh-threatened-anew-with-impeachment-as-supreme-court-vote-nears.html

September 29: Liz Swisher, former Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, told CNN's Chris Cuomo she never saw Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, but said that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his drinking habits.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/29/liz-swisher-yale-classmate-sloppy-drunk-bts-cuomo-vpx.cnn

September 29: Senate Judiciary Committee refers false Kavanaugh allegation to FBI, DOJ for criminal investigation

The office of Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat who sits on the Judiciary Committee, received a call on Monday concerning an allegation -- now found to be false -- of a 1985 incident in Newport where a woman was sexually assaulted on a boat by two heavily inebriated men she referred to as "Brett and Mark."

The committee said after the transcripts of the interview became public on Wednesday, the individual "recanted" and apologized for the claim through a social media post.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/29/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-kavanaugh-fbi-false-allegation/index.html

October 3: FBI has not contacted dozens of potential sources in Kavanaugh investigation

With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/dozens-potential-sources-information-have-not-been-contacted-fbi-kavanaugh-n916146

October 2: Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at campaign rally

After saying last week that her Senate testimony was "very credible," the president on Tuesday night repeatedly ridiculed the woman who says she was attacked.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061

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October 2: The audience laughed as Trump ran through a list of what he described as holes in Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She testified that Kavanaugh pinned her on a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth in the early 1980s, when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied Ford's allegations.

"How did you get home? 'I don't remember,'" Trump said at the rally in Southaven. "How did you get there? 'I don't remember.' Where is the place? 'I don't remember.' How many years ago was it? 'I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.'"

Imitating Ford, he added, "But I had one beer — that's the only thing I remember."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/in-mississippi-trump-mocks-fords-claims-against-kavanaugh

October 5: Brett Kavanaugh moves towards Supreme Court confirmation after Susan Collins, Joe Manchin pledge support
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/05/brett-kavanaugh-senate-vote-determine-supreme-court-nominees-fate/1527037002/

October 9: Kavanaugh Debuts On Supreme Court, Pledging To Be A 'Team Player'

"The Supreme Court is an institution of law. It is not a partisan or political institution," Kavanaugh said. "The justices do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. We do not caucus in separate rooms. The Supreme Court is a team of nine, and I will always be a team player on the team of nine."

Trump, however, began the ceremony with a sharp partisan rebuke.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/09/655572566/kavanaugh-debuts-on-supreme-court-pledging-to-be-a-team-player

November 3: Trump challenges Democrats after Kavanaugh accuser admits to making false rape accusation

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley referred Judy Munro-Leighton to authorities after his office said she alleged that Kavanaugh and a friend raped her in the backseat of a car -- only for that story to fall apart.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-challenges-democrats-after-kavanaugh-accuser-admits-to-making-false-rape-accusation-where-are-the-dems-on-this

November 3: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who presided over Kavanaugh's contentious confirmation hearings, requested in a letter to the Justice Department and the FBI on Friday that the agencies investigate Judy Munro-Leighton for making false statements to committee investigators and obstructing committee investigations.

Grassley has also referred for investigation another Kavanaugh accuser, Julie Swetnick, as well as her attorney, Michael Avenatti — best known for representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Donald Trump.

Avenatti fired back at Trump in a tweet Saturday, writing: ".@realDonaldTrump - my client Ms. Swetnick and I are still waiting on the supposed 'criminal investigation' that Chuck 'I Never Went to Law School' Grassley demanded. I have only heard from the FBI once - to tell me I was a target of your MAGA bomber. You are a complete fraud."

Trump has sought to make Kavanaugh's bitter confirmation process a campaign-trail issue in the run-up to the midterm elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/03/trump-kavanaugh-accusers-fbi-doj-959452

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November 7: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractures 3 ribs in fall
https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-fractures-3-ribs-in-fall

November 20: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts offered a rebuke on Wednesday to President Trump's description of a judge who ruled against Trump's new migrant asylum policy as an "Obama judge."

“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts said in a Wednesday statement provided to Fox News. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them."

Roberts added: “That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chief-justice-roberts-rebukes-trumps-obama-judge-complaint

November 28: Supreme Court Appears Ready To Make It Harder For States To Confiscate Property

At the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, a majority of the justices seemed ready to make it more difficult for states to confiscate cars, houses and other property that is even tangentially used in the commission of a crime. It's a process legally known as civil asset forfeiture.

That would be a victory for Tyson Timbs, whose $42,000 Land Rover was seized by the state of Indiana after he was arrested for selling a small amount of heroin to undercover cops for $400. A trial judge ruled that taking the SUV was a grossly disproportionate punishment, on top of other fines and a year of house detention.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671268444/supreme-court-appears-ready-to-make-it-harder-for-states-to-confiscate-property

December 16: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Draws Sold-Out Audience In New York
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ruth-bader-ginsburg-draws-sold-out-audience-in-new-york_us_5c15e44fe4b049efa752ebd0

December 21: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery For Lung Cancer
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679065534/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-undergoes-surgery-for-lung-cancer?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181221&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

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January 22: Supreme Court lets military go ahead with transgender restrictions
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/01/22/supreme-courts-lets-military-go-ahead-with-transgender-restrictions/



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